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Taiwan and China are related ethnically and close neighbors geographically. There's no reason to resent or to fight against each other.

A war in the Taiwan Strait would destroy China's international relations overnight. It would destroy Chinese - Japanese relations, not to mention Chinese - American relations.

Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's gain.

America lost its face with the debacle of the Vietnam War.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States and China are more likely to view each other as competitors if not adversaries. But the die has not been cast. The best possible outcome is a new understanding that when they cannot cooperate, they will coexist and allow all countries in the Pacific to grow and thrive.

There is a great deal of concern in the Chinese military that Taiwan's reunification with China is drifting further and further away.

When you go to war, both sides lose totally.

We didn't lose Vietnam. We quit Vietnam.

The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the 'New York Times' or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.

In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.