Moon Jae-in Quotes

I think the Sino-American relationship is the most important geo-strategic question facing us.

Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.

It is the natural desire of each nation to use the other as an instrument of its own purposes and policies. By dint of our mutual dependence, your influence is amplified by our power. Our power is made more responsible and more effective by your influence.

If the United States and China can accommodate each other on a broad range of issues, the prospects for stability in Asia will be greatly increased.

I think what you can see is that we have worked very closely with China. China has really stood up in putting the pressure on North Korea.

Israel's foreign policy has three points: the relationship with the U.S., the relationship with the U.S., and the relationship with the U.S.

America needs an adult in the White House who knows how to deal with China.

You have North Korea, you have nuclear weapons, and China could solve that problem. And they're not helping us at all.

I can't take anything off the table. Because you look at some of these countries, you look at North Korea, we're doing nothing there. China should solve that problem for us. China should go into North Korea. China is totally powerful as it relates to North Korea.

Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people, the pressures, the geopolitical realities shift.

American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.

Turkey can be a bridge to regimes and actions the United States can't reach. Turkey can talk to people the United States can't talk to.

Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.

So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly.

Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security.

The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite.

Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them.

The goal of Australian foreign policy should be to promote the maximum harmony between the U.S. and China.

Foreign policy is consumed with momentary crises —– often created by failing states and violent groups. But in the long run, he future is shaped by winners, not noisy losers.

Historians in the future will surely wonder what went so wrong when the United States, for the first time ever, focused its foreign policy on the Islamic world.

The management of a balance of power is a permanent undertaking, not an exertion that has a foreseeable end.

The only things that matter in the world are Japan and China, Russia and Europe. Latin America doesn’t matter…. And … there’s nothing you can do about the Middle East.

There are two things that are very expensive in international relations: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail

The moment it became in the interests of one or the other of the Great Powers to alter the status quo, none of these treaty structures ever stood in the way of such alteration.

So much of our foreign policy is based on other people’s weakness.