China had never had to deal in a world of countries of approximately equal strength, and so to adjust to such a world, is in itself a profound challenge to China, which now has fourteen countries on its borders, some of which are small, but can project their nationality into China, some of which are large, and historically significant, so that any attempt by Chinese to dominate the world, would involve in a disastrous for the peace of the world.

How to Achieve The New World Order

American politics are normally a result of pragmatic and not philosophical reasoning. No one in Washington has said we now prefer multilateralism.

In the middle '50s, I had written that the point would come, inevitably, at which the relationship between the cause of conflict and political objectives would be lost.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.