Strategic Rivalry Quotes

If America and China collide, both will suffer.

We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.

The U.S.-China relationship, of course, has elements of both cooperation and competition.

India doesn't have one problem with China, we have a whole lot of problems pending with China.

Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.

I don't know what happens in the next years. But I cannot now design a policy in which we try to keep China from developing, because in some years, if they develop, they might be rich enough to challenge us, and adopt the principle that we will hold down any state that might in the future become strong. That would make us a world empire for which we wouldn't have the talents or the convictions.

The Chinese government's not pulling any punches. They want what we have so they can get the upper hand on us. And they're highly strategic in their approach - they're playing the long game.

There are surely people in London who would love to play us off against each other. That would be disastrous for the EU.

China is a rising adversary. So one of the things we have to do if we want China's support is to push back on China.

The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves.

Chinese military spending is carefully monitored by the United States.

Of late, attempts have been made in the USA - at a high level and in a rather cynical form - to play the "Chinese card" against the USSR. This is a shortsighted and dangerous policy.

I think the Chinese do have visions of being a great power. And I think it's legitimate. And I don't see that that's a danger to us.

For nearly three decades there has been, by and large, peace and tranquility on the India-China border. Not a single bullet has been fired for over a quarter-century. Both countries are showing great maturity and a commitment to economic cooperation.

Why welcome a China that leaves our ally Japan in the dust and quarrels endlessly on trade issues.