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Quotes About Asia-Pacific

When President Obama visited Japan, we were able to confirm that our alliance is playing a leading role in ensuring a peaceful and prosperous Asia-Pacific.
~ Shinzo Abe
The United States has renewed our leadership in the Asia-Pacific, prime Minister Abe is leading Japan to a new role on the world stage.
~ Shinzo Abe
The vast Pacific Ocean has ample space for China and the United States. We welcome a constructive role by the United States in promoting peace, stability and prosperity in the region. We also hope that the United States will fully respect and accommodate the major interests and legitimate concerns of Asia-Pacific countries.
~ Xi Jinping
Russia is a part of the West and at the same time is a part of the Asia-Pacific.
~ Shinzo Abe
Peace and security in the Asia-Pacific will turn on whether China emerges as a xenophobic, chauvinistic force, bitter and hostile to the West because it tried to slow down or abort its development, or whether it is educated and involved in the ways of the world - more cosmopolitan, more internationalized and outward looking.
~ Lee Kuan Yew
A core challenge for Australia is - how do we best prepare ourselves for the Asia Pacific century - to maximise the opportunities, to minimise the threats and to make our own active contribution to making this Asia-Pacific Century peaceful, prosperous and sustainable for us all.
~ Kevin Rudd
We must move aggressively in Asia-Pacific because our competitors like China are moving very swiftly to tie down a regional trade agreement that leaves... our farmers and our workers and our businesses out.
~ Kevin Brady
Prudence dictates that there should be a balance of power in the Asia-Pacific region.
~ Lee Kuan Yew
If we don't set the rules for commerce in the Asia-Pacific region, China will.
~ William M. Daley
In this century, the 21st century, the U.S. recognizes our prosperity and our security depends even more on the Asia-Pacific region.
~ Leon Panetta
What I'm absolutely certain of is, every day we delay in accessing that Asia-Pacific region, the more we lose economically.
~ Kevin Brady
Airbnb is dedicated to empowering people and communities through healthy tourism, and we have a long tradition of supporting local projects in Asia-Pacific.
~ Nathan Blecharczyk
China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.
~ Yoshihiko Noda
Within ASEAN, a culture of peace has evolved as a result of imbibing the Indonesian custom of musyawarah and mufakat (consultation and consensus). Now ASEAN has begun to share this culture of peace with the larger Asia-Pacific region.
~ Kishore Mahbubani
The reason ASEAN has emerged as the indispensable platform for great-power engagement in the Asia-Pacific region is that it is too weak to be a threat to anyone. So all the great powers instinctively trust it.
~ Kishore Mahbubani
We need peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region. It is important to have political and security stability to build up our economic growth.
~ Joko Widodo
We will do everything in our power to make sure cross-strait stability becomes the driving force for peace in the Asia-Pacific region.
~ Tsai Ing-wen
We have enormous interests in the Asia Pacific. In addition to our economy, we need to secure our allies, protect our environment, promote peace and stability, ensure the free-flow of commerce, and stand up for human rights.
~ Ben Rhodes
Neither [side] should seek hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region and each is opposed to efforts by any other country or group of countries to establish such hegemony.
~ Henry Kissinger
We want a rules-based order in Asia-Pacific like we have had in the Atlantic.
~ Ben Rhodes