I have said there are three principles that should be followed. One, we should maintain the "one China" policy that every American president has articulated, including President Reagan. Secondly, we should make clear that we want a peaceful resolution. And three, Taiwan should not challenge that arrangement in a way that will provoke a conflict. Those are three perfectly clear principles. I haven't used any of the other slogans.

Realism in foreign policy means careful consideration of all aspects pertinent to the issue, before taking a decision. This is the only way you can move from where you are to someplace else.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

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I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.

China has had a long and complex history and has managed to evolve its own culture for 4,000 years. It therefore not necessarily true that we know exactly what is best for the internal structure of China.

The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the outer limit of the possible.