Quotes About China

In the case of China, the growth process based on catch-up, import of foreign technology, and export of low-end manufacturing products is likely to continue for a while.

The Coca-Cola Company has changed the name of its soft drink in China after discovering the words mean 'bite the wax tadpole' in Chinese.

There is another thing about the Chinese: they do not like to have unfriendly powers on either side of them.

to be a superpower. Economically they already are. These days it's not necessarily how large your military is, but how big your bank account is, and the Chinese wallet is fatter than anyone's.

For the first time in nearly twenty-five years, our country is having anything to do with the Chinamen, an it is an event far more important than any damn ping-pong game. It is diplomacy, and the future of the human race might be at stake. Do you understand what I am saying? I shrug my shoulders an nod my head, but something down in me sinkin' fast. I am jus' a po' ole idiot, an now I have got the whole human race to look after.

The tail of China is large and will not be wagged.

China threatened to nuke Los Angeles a few years ago and again recently, but neither of these threats was widely reported in the domestic US press.)

Its attempted takeover of Unocal was blocked by Congress on national security grounds.5 China's growing dependence on oil imports has caused it to acquire interests in Kazakhstan, Russia, Venezuela, Sudan

Every month when the bills came in, there was trouble. Mother seemed to have no great extravagances. But she loved pretty things. She had a passion for china, for instance. She saw hundreds of beautiful cups and saucers that it was hard to walk away from and leave. She knew she couldn't buy them, and mustn't, but every so often she did. No one purchase seemed large by itself, but they kept mounting up, and Father declared that she bought more china than the Windsor Hotel.

the CCP views the France China Foundation as its foremost avenue of influence on France's elites. In this respect, it is similar to Britain's 48 Group Club.

The first objective of including Australia in its overall periphery, he told them, was to secure Australia as a reliable and stable supply base for China's continued economic growth over the next twenty years. The longer-term goal was to drive a wedge into the America–Australia alliance

The Chinese Communist Party is present in all major enterprises in China and manipulates or directly controls their decisions to achieve political and strategic aims.

For a modern state there are cheaper and less risky means of coercion, sometimes known as economic statecraft or geoeconomics. China has become the world's master practitioner. Geoeconomics can be defined as the deployment of economic punishments and rewards to coerce nations to adopt preferred policies.

Before Italy, Beijing had succeeded in persuading several Central and Eastern European nations to join the BRI—Poland, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Hungary—as well as Portugal, Greece and Malta in Southern Europe. Italy's joining reinforces the impression that Beijing is pursuing a strategy in Europe of 'use the countryside to surround the city'.

China was already a substantial investor in Italy, with a Chinese chemical company buying Pirelli, and Huawei buying mobile phone operator Wind.129 As China specialist François Godement points out, previous Italian governments were happy to sign a series of science and technology cooperation agreements that were 'essentially a carbon copy' of the priorities laid out in Made in China 2025, Beijing's blueprint for becoming the world's dominant technological power.

The Conte government has allowed a Chinese firm to buy into the nation's electricity network, and Italy's ports are also expected to feature strongly in the flow of BRI investment, especially in Trieste, which Geraci has said 'must be open to Chinese investments'.153 Trieste's port enhances Italy's role as China's gateway to Europe. (The city also boasts many of the nation's top scientific research institutions.)

The combination of close personal relationships, coupled with threats of punishment, is the standard Chinese modus operandi. Beijing hoped to turn Australia into a 'second France', 'a western country that would dare to say "no" to America'.

At the centre of the CCP's ambitious strategy for global economic domination is the push for China's currency, the renminbi or RMB (also known as the yuan), to become the foremost global currency, replacing the US dollar. The size of China's economy and the fact that the RMB is the second most used currency for trade helps, but financial markets know that China's financial system is not robust, and that the government manipulates it, which creates distrust.

a common political mistake in the West, the belief that it's always an advantage for ambassadors to have long experience in China. Governments forget that, in the process of getting to know China and some of its powerful players, many succumb to Beijing's subtle influence techniques, so that an ambassador may in practice serve as a conduit for Beijing's messaging back to the Western capital.

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.

We calculated that Japan would have found it advantageous to set Mao Tse-tung up as the leader of the New China, because this would make the vast sums of money held by wealthy Chinese financiers available to Japan. We assumed that to secure Japan's support, Mao had agreed to drive the Americans and English out of China and to cooperate with the new Japanese army.

Did you know that bone china had real bones in it?" Poppy said, tapping a porcelain cheek. "Her clay was made from human bones. Little-girl bones. That hair threaded through the scalp is the little girl's hair. And the body of the doll is filled with her leftover ashes.

he would dare to transform China and make it great. He would build his own Great Walls.

All the able-bodied males, the real farmers of China, had been taken out of agricultural production to tend the backyard steel furnaces.