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Quotes About China

China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.
~ Yoshihiko Noda
I have viewed the West as if it were not only the salvation of China but also the natural and ultimate destination of all humanity.
~ Liu Xiaobo
Remember, in China when you are one in a million, there are 1,300 other people just like you.
~ Thomas Friedman
All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterranean - from that whole vast intuitive culture - are four bottles of Chianti to make into lamps, and two china condiment donkeys labelled Sally and Peppy.
~ Peter Shaffer
I must have dialogue with the Chinese government, and dialogue requires compromise. Therefore, I'm speaking for genuine self-rule, not for independence.
~ Dalai Lama
Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.
~ Gordon Brown
The Republic-of-China - back in the Olympic Games for the first time
~ David Coleman
China Whales follow the whale-roads. Geese, roads of magnetized air. To go great distance, exactitudes matter. Yet how often the heart that set out for Peru arrives in China, Steering hard. consulting the charts the whole journey.
~ Jane Hirshfield
Remember what Napoleon said: China is a sleeping giant. When she awakes, the world will tremble.
~ Edward Rutherfurd
The digital book has no front or back covers; there is no place to assert ownership, and there is nothing to own. "The digital delivery module" is a piece of molded plastic made in China, encasing a few memory chips. That is not the book, that's the "reader." Wait, I thought I was the reader. Oh, never mind.
~ Alex Beam
Most of the food imported to Russia came from China.
~ Alex Chiu
And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.   Not louder shrieks to pitying heav'n are cast,   When husbands, or when lapdogs breathe their last;   Or when rich China vessels fall'n from high,   In glitt'ring dust and painted fragments lie! 160
~ Alexander Pope
If money could motivate the merchants of England to cross death-defying oceans and enter the interior of China at great personal risk of the loss of life, could not the love of Christ motivate the missionaries to do the same for the sake of the gospel?
~ Alexander Strauch
I do not understand players going to China at the age of 27 or 28. Those guys are at the peak of their career. That is a waste, really. You only get one career. I sort of understand players who are already in their 30s.
~ Arjen Robben
I do not see it as desirable for South Korea to take the back seat and watch discussions between the U.S. and China.
~ Moon Jae-in
I love cult movies. I probably have watched 'Big Trouble In Little China' more than anyone on the planet.
~ Drew Goddard
I'm working with UNESCO on a project called 'Thirst,' which educates children all over China and promotes awareness to the fact that 300 million people in China do not have access to water.
~ Joyce Giraud
The air that people breathe in many Chinese cities has become dangerously polluted. Their food supply is subject to constant contamination scandals. Now it appears that not merely stagnant ponds but the water people draw from deep underground is already tainted.
~ James Fallows
A water route to Chinese trade replacing the long, arduous Silk Road was a great dream of the Renaissance.
~ Mark Kurlansky
For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety, soil quality, and other environment-related variables is the main challenge to China's continued development.
~ James Fallows
Nixon had been to China. He had been to Russia doing arms negotiation. And so, he was on his way toward what happened in November, which was an electoral win with 49 states. And the sheer unnecessariness of the Watergate break-in is something that must have tormented him and his allies in all of the years that followed.
~ Thomas Mallon
The oil companies are regulated by the federal government. They can't drill on land nor in American waters without permission from the feds. Many Republicans want to drill baby drill but what's the point if all the oil goes to China? Increased production obviously doesn't mean lower prices for us.
~ Bill O'Reilly
As it seeks to rule the seas once again, China desires tangible symbols of its past as a naval power. Finding a sunken Chinese ship or coins in Kenyan waters would be powerful in this regard.
~ Robert C. O'Brien
I decided to come to the U.S. in the mid '90s because the Internet, which I knew was the wave of the future, was red hot here, but hadn't yet taken off in China.
~ Eric Yuan