"We have this rising nation China. And one of the things we want to do is make sure that China's neighbors are actually bound to us, bound to the United States."

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We Europeans must really take our destiny into our own hands, of course in friendship with the United States, in friendship with Great Britain, with other neighbors wherever possible, also with Russia. But we must know that we need to fight for our future ourselves, as Europeans, for our destiny.

— Angela Merkel