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If the communist party is controlling China, they represent China.

And look at the mess that Russia is; most Chinese don't want to follow that.

It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States.

If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and liberties in China.

There's a national ambition, a collective, in a sense, political ambition, which I think is the thing we see from far away. That's the fact that China's building roads and airports and extending its reaches out into the East China Sea and the South China Sea, and in a way that's putting it into some tension with its neighbors.

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

I think the Chinese government is doing a great job right now.

I think that there is a concern, a question mark, by people all around the world and governments all around the world, as to what China's intentions are.

My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.

The trend in China is toward tighter and tighter control. They are basically improving their censorship mechanisms.