Kissinger Institute

Lord: "We should recognize the importance of this relationship, and not let it descend into conflict. The leadersof China have been a major culprit in the deterioration of the relationship. At the same time, we should not consider them the main enemy"

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"