Quotes About Diplomacy

In reality, the rulers of Southeast Asia were keen to send tributes to China because they found it to be immensely profitable.

China usually gave much more than it received from these missions, reflecting the court's attitude that its smaller neighbours had little to offer their great nation, and demonstrating Chinese generosity".

Chinese people need to realize is that it would serve China's long-term strategic interests for China to continue opening up its economy even while the Trump administration has been creating more difficulties for foreign businesses to either invest or export to America. Over time, this will mean more countries will be trading and investing more with China than with America.

any American effort to decouple itself from China could well result in America decoupling itself from the world.

Negotiations only succeed when countries have the flexibility to make compromises at the negotiating table. American diplomats are severely handicapped in this respect. Both absolute power and conflicting demands from domestic agencies leave American negotiators with little room for flexibility.

One simple question we should ask is which country—China or the United States—is swimming in the same direction as the majority of the other 191?

The greatest leaders work hand in hand with their enemies

When Pakistan reciprocated Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's peacenik bus trip to Lahore with a military invasion of the Kargil district of Jammu and Kashmir in 1999, the Indian Army was not allowed to cross the Line of Control and strike at the invaders' bases and supply lines in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. This raised the death toll among Indian soldiers, the typical Gandhian price for a pose of saintliness

Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is.

If you have a problem and you can't find a solution, you meet again tomorrow and you keep talking until you find a solution. You can disagree with behavior or a particular position, but you do not resort to calling an opponent worthless.

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that is why we have the United Nations.

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.

Il y a des moments où le recours à la force peut être légitime pour poursuivre la paix.

Beneath the surface of states and nations, ideas and language, lies the fate of individual human beings in need. Answering their needs will be the mission of the United Nations in the century to come.

It is only through multilateral institutions that States can hold each other to account. And that makes it very important to organize those institutions in a fair and democratic way, giving the poor and the weak some influence over the actions of the rich and the strong.

Unless the Security Council is restored to its pre-eminent position as the sole source of legitimacy on the use of force, we are on a dangerous path to anarchy.

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

Besides being notoriously literate, the princess was noted for her political acumen and great beauty.

War is simply the continuation of politics by other means

For political and social as well as for military reasons the preferred way of bringing about victory was the shortest, most direct way, and that meant using all possible force.

If our opponent is to be made to comply with our will, we must place him in a situation which is more oppressive to him than the sacrifice which we demand; but the disadvantages of this position must naturally not be of a transitory nature, at least in appearance, otherwise the enemy, instead of yielding, will hold out, in the prospect of a change for the better.

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

We maintain, on the contrary, that war is simply a continuation of political intercourse, with the addition of other means. We deliberately use the phrase "with the addition of other means" because we also want to make it clear that war in itself does not suspend political intercourse or change it into something entirely different. In essentials that intercourse continues, irrespective of the means it employs.

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