Kissinger Institute

Lord emphasizes "Domestic strength, ally unity and leadership" in maintaining US-China relationship

Amb. Freeman: "Deng needed an opening to the United States- tactically, to put the USSR off balance. Strategically, to de-Sovietize China's domestic political economy"

Freeman: "Sino-American relations are in the process of returning to the fallacious stereotype that Nixon and Mao attempted to set aside decades ago"

Amb. Roy: "The basis for the United States' relationship with China was the perception of the Soviet Union was the common threat to both countries that created the glue that got the relationship off to a new basis. Forty years later, each sees the other as the principal threat"

Roy: "We see China as an external threat, and China, in many ways, sees us as an internal threat. " notes that Xi's corruption and ideological campaign as stemming from political results of engagement

Hewitt: "In your collective experience, is there any persuading and talking political leadership to do things differently, or does it all have to be sticks and carrots?"

Roy: "The power of example is very powerful in both [China and the USSR]. The Soviet Union convinced many citizens that their standard of living was higher than that of the United States. China ended up flooding us with their best and brightest students"