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.

China is a country with a record of continuous self-government going back 4,000 years, the only society that has achieved this. One must start with the assumption that they must have learnt something about the requirements for survival, and it is not always to be assumed that we know it better than they do.

Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.

It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

U.S. policy toward the third world should be one of depopulation

Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen.

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