Borders that were so essential to protecting cultures and societies are of much less significance now, we have a global communications system like the BBC, we have a global finance system that prevents states from controlling their own currencies.

BBC: Breakfast with Frost

And Europe is our largest trading partner and a key part of the global financial system, and therefore it's very important to the United States, and the rest of the world as they work through their issues.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

We offered to the United States that we help them establish a global anti-missile defense system, and we should think about this, given the vulnerability of our world, the terrorist challenges and the possibility of using nuclear arms by terrorists existing in this world.

WHITEHOUSE: Signing of New START Nuclear Arms Treaty with Russia

In the new system the United States will still be the largest economy but no longer the sole determinant of global economic health.

WSJ: China Will Be a Winner in the New Economy

UN-led system of global governance is working to redefine international law by on the one hand whitewashing war crimes by states associated with the majority, and on the other hand rendering it illegal for unpopular countries to take action to protect themselves against aggression.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Israel's opening to China

By so doing, the United States could make clear that its "national" missile defense system will actually be a global capability, thus denying critics and those who would divide America from her allies the argument that the former will be protected at the latters' expense.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

On the one hand we will help them and we have proposed the creation of a new international system to help non-nuclear states acquire the new sources of energy they need, including through a global enrichment bond ---- and we are today inviting interested countries to an international conference on these themes later this year.

BBC: In full: Brown security statement