Henry Kissinger on competition between the U.S. and China

There are some people who think that at some time in the future, China may challenge us for supremacy in the Pacific, and therefore, what do we do today to prevent that?  And you, of course, will say that we will try to thwart any economic progress in China.  If we engaged in such a policy, we would turn a billion-plus people into nationalist opponents of the United States.

~ Henry Kissinger