Unilateral Actions Quotes

We are distressed by the unilateral actions of those provinces that are clearly determined to redefine what our common faith was once.

Grand bargains area a bad idea. Grand bargains are usually sought by people who do not want to make any progress.

They act as they please: here and there, they use force against sovereign states, building coalitions based on the principle 'If you are not with us, you are against us.' To make this aggression look legitimate, they force the necessary resolutions from international organizations, and if for some reason this does not work, they simply ignore the UN Security Council and the UN overall.

We call on the P.R.C. to remain focused on supporting international efforts to combat the global pandemic and to stop exploiting the distraction or vulnerability of other states to expand its unlawful claims in the South China Sea.

If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.

There is no doubt that the United States now feels that they are the only superpower in the world and they can do what they like.

Donald Trump has made the principle of purposely breaking a taboo into a means of achieving his political objectives, which is something that he has in common with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Trump systematically violates international rules. But we cannot allow ourselves to forget that Trump is not the U.S.