Fu Ying Quotes

We [the Russians] are going to do something terrible to you [America]—we are going to deprive you of an enemy.

Why were the Europeans bothered about the Soviet Union at all? It was nothing to do with us. China had nothing to do with us. Why were we not building, without reference to the Soviet Union, a good society in our own countries? But no, we were all — in one way or another — obsessed with the bloody Soviet Union, which was a disaster…

That's the problem with Russia: The world has changed. Europe is not at war, and no one wants to negotiate with us. The world has changed, but Russia prefers to pretend it has not.

The threat to Europe is for us to push Russia into China’s arms.

I believe some of the tensions the U.S. has had with Russia and that the Europeans have had with Russia... China is taking advantage of some of those dealings.

We have our differences with Russia. And some of those differences produce conflict. But by no means is this the Soviet Union. We have far more areas of cooperation with Russia than we have areas of conflict.

What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war was a calamity for the entire world, and that it can be justified by no consideration of theory, nor by any supposed national interest.

The United States and Russia probably do not have common aims and dreams, but they have common worries: Both Washington and Moscow are concerned about the rise of China and are threatened by the rise of radical Islam.

My last words to you, my son and successor, are: Never trust the Russians!

These four mongrels are supposed to be our defense against Communism and the extremes of Arab Nationalism in the Middle East.

It has become increasingly clear that Pakistan’s chief aim in aligning with the West was to gain support against India

Americans’ manner of viewing foreign adversaries today is rooted in the history of their country’s past relations with the outside world. Their attitudes have been shaped especially by the most costly and all-consuming episodes in that history, in particular the wars—hot and cold—of the 20th century.

… this whole Near East problem is not just an Arab-Israeli dispute but a problem of the influence of the West as opposed to that of the Soviet. We want no wars, but we do not want a Sovietized world.

The Cold War didn't end. It was won.

The Cold War has ended for America.

President Trump say that relations between the United States and Russia may be at their lowest point since the end of the Cold War.

I don't worry about superpower confrontation. You know, I lived through the Cold War days, and where everybody was worried about a Soviet Union armed to the teeth. I think we're going to get along fine with Russia, and I don't see them as internationally ambitious.

One of the things that I heard for years and years, never drive Russia and China together. And Obama has done that.

Russia is a difficult country to deal with, but I think that American policy on Russia has been foolish in the extreme.

Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.

President Nixon was a pragmatic strategist. He would engage, not contain, China, but he would also quietly set pieces into place for a fallback position should China not play according to the rules as a good global citizen.

For the Kremlin, it is more feasible to preserve its great-power status in cooperation with the United States than in confrontation.

During the Cold War, America took sides not only in disputes between Arab countries, but also in debates within them.

People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War.

Many agree that the worst thing that could ever happen is if Russia and China get closer.