Tsai Ing-wen Quotes

Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs.

The United States may have to abandon its policy of avoiding entangling alliances.

Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.

Obama's foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront.

The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

Turkey has worked alongside its allies from the beginning.

An increasingly multipolar world requires an entirely different kind of U.S. foreign policy: far from being unilateralist, it necessitates a complex form of power-sharing on both a global and regional basis.

I met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel, visited our allies in the Arab Gulf, traveled to Tunisia and Iraq, met with President Petro Poroshenko in Ukraine, and visited our allies in Germany, France, and the United Kingdom.

The real danger to Britain is a foreign policy that is isolationist in Europe and therefore weak in the rest of the world.

China has become a major presence for most countries around the world but notably for its neighboring countries in Asia. So I think it is a common position for Japan and its Asian neighbors that we certainly would strive to maintain as much as possible friendly relations with China.

It is clearly unwise for us to continue the attempt to carry alone, or largely single-handed, the opposition to Soviet expansion. It is urgently necessary for us to restore something of the balance of power in Europe and Asia by strengthening local forces of independence and by getting them to assume part of our burden.

Multilateralism may be little more than a polite way of camouflaging what is in practice unilateralism with allies.

The foreign policy of Czechoslovakia must be first of all a Czechoslovak, then a European, and then a world policy.

You always have more than one goal in foreign policy.

We can not have peace and prosperity in Asia with any single country trying to dominate the region.

Resolved that there be held a conference of the white nations bordering upon the Pacific for unity of action against the aggression of Japan.

The United States has better relations with the countries of Asia than any of them have with each other.

Foreign policy should be strategic, not tactical.

Why shouldn't Turkey be in the Shanghai Five?

When I became secretary of state, I felt one of my primary jobs was building relationships around the world.

Of course the U.K., and its component parts, should seek out as many connections with as many parts of the world as is profitable and feasible. But to play any kind of global role effectively, the U.K. is likely always to require allies within its own continent, and far more enterprise needs devoting to this.

I want to show a new vector of policy that will be there when I will become a president. And my vector is friendship with America and friendship with European Union.

In both world wars, Britain understood that our national sovereignty could only endure if we cooperated with other nations. That our fate is inexorably bound with that of our neighbours.

President Trump is not an isolationist and builds closer friendships when he can.

In 1992, India launched the India-Asian partnership and by 2005 we were members of the East Asia Summit.