Reported in Christian Crusade Weekly (March 3, 1974) as having been said be Zhou to Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1965; reported as a likely misattribution in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 133.
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“All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.”
As quoted in Saturday Evening Post (27 March 1954); this is a play upon the famous maxim of Clausewitz: "War is the continuation of politics by other means".
To the Chinese Communist Party Congress, as quoted in The New York Times (1 September 1973).
“We shall use only peaceful means and we shall not permit any other kind of method.”
Concluding his summary of his government’s approach to boundary settlement at Bandung, with a pledge and a warning "How the Sino-Russian BoundaryConflict Was Finally Settled:From Nerchinsk 1689 to Vladivostok 2005 via Zhenbao Island 1969" by Neville Maxwell http://web.archive.org/web/20110607072751/http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/coe21/publish/no16_2_ses/02_maxwell.pdf.
“For us, it is all right if the talks succeed, and it is all right if they fail.”
On President Richard Nixon’s visit to China (5 October 1971), as quoted in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988) edited by James Beasley Simpson.
Often, though disputedly, thought to refer to the significance of the French Revolution of 1789, it has been argued that he was actually indicating the French protests of 1968, in "Zhou’s cryptic caution lost in translation" by Richard McGregor in Financial Times (10 June 2011) http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/74916db6-938d-11e0-922e-00144feab49a.html#ixzz1PDuP8ZzG.
"Chinese People Will not Tolerate Aggression" (October 1950)
Supplementary Speech at the Plenary Session of the Asian African-Conference (19 April 1955)
