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Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s.

A more consistent and sustainable relationship with China will be a core goal of my administration. That requires open channels of communication, both with China's leadership and the Taiwanese people.

Whoever stands for 'one China' will get our support. We can have talks with them, and our talks will cover anything.

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

China is not going to become a liberal democracy; if it did, it would collapse. I do not believe you can impose on other countries standards which are alien and totally disconnected with their past.

I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have enough power to stop the Chinese when they want to take over the world.

I don't care what political party is controlling China right now. All I know is we are all Chinese.

We should be doing more business with China. We should be better connected to the Chinese economy.

Although I don't like the way the Chinese do business, I continue to do business in China. I have to. They're the next world power.

So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly.