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Quotes About China

In 1986, under the sponsorship of the U.S. Information Agency, he conducted seminars for Chinese educators in Beijing, China, in the teaching of American English. He was a key speaker at the first Face-to-Face International Publishing Conference in The Hague, Netherlands, and was a principal speaker at the annual meeting of the Periodical Publishers
~ Robert A. Carter
The other big budgetary expense is national defense. America spends more on our military than do China, Russia, Britain, France, Japan, and Germany combined.
~ Robert B. Reich
China has a national economic strategy designed to create more and better jobs. We have global corporations designed to make money for their shareholders. No contest.
~ Robert B. Reich
China has a national economic strategy designed to create more and better jobs. We have global corporations designed to make money for their shareholders.
~ Robert B. Reich
For Chinese courtiers, the problem of how to give the emperor advice was an important issue. Over the years, thousands of them had died trying to warn or counsel their master. To be made safely, their criticisms had to be indirect—yet if they were too indirect they would not be heeded. The chronicles were their solution: Identify no one person as the source of criticism, make the advice as impersonal as possible, but let the emperor know the gravity of the situation.
~ Robert Greene
The massive movement of people from low-productivity rural areas to cities with private industry has spurred China's development… When Communist China was governed by socialist ideologues it was an impoverished, totalitarian police state that killed tens of millions of its own people. Now that Communist China practices crony capitalism, it is a prosperous and much more restrained police state.
~ Robert Lawson
In 1988, the Chinese constitution was amended to officially recognize private property and private business. Before then, the Communist state had been China's only official employer, with small exceptions. By 1998, the state employed about 60 percent of the working population, and in 2010 it employed only about 19 percent.9 China had transitioned from socialism to a form of crony capitalism.
~ Robert Lawson
In 1966, Mao and the Communist Party launched the "Cultural Revolution," inflicting a new hell on the Chinese people.
~ Robert Lawson
Americans, I think, understand the value of allies and how they are a unique asset for the United States, especially compared to both Russia and China, neither of which have any. At the same time, those allies are expected to pull their weight.
~ Robert M. Gates
Often overlooked in the United States is that while we have many allies, Russia and China have none, only clients, giving the United States a unique advantage.
~ Robert M. Gates
That fact alone should let you know just how deep a hole I was digging. Or would that be, already have dug? Yeah, already dug. I was about halfway to China and still throwing dirt up in the air.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I handed my tools. The two of them reached down to help me out of the crater I'd dug. ''Isn't that a little deep?'' Yoda asked. ''It'll help the roots get established,'' I explained. ''Established where? China?
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
A sickly little smile grew and died on his mouth like a fungus.
~ China Mieville
The voice on the other end said, "Lord Mollusk, we've lost China." "Define lost." "It's not there anymore, sir." "Well, that's no good, is it?" I said. "No, sir. We thought you should know." "Yes, I'll look into it. Mollusk out.
~ A. Lee Martinez
In China, often only the practice of infanticide makes marriage and family life possible.  In all the major towns, parents annually abandon many children in the streets or drown them like unwanted puppies.  Some people even make a living out of performing infanticide contracts for money.
~ Adam Smith
China has led the world in new tree planting; in fact, over the last several years, China has planted 40 percent as many tress as the rest of the world put together. Since 1981, all citizens of China older than age eleven (and younger than sixty) have been formally required to plant at least three trees per year. To date, China has planted approximately 100 million acres of new tress. Following China, the countries with the largest net gains in tress include the U.S., India, Vietnam, and Spain.
~ Al Gore
Shoulda gone to China. They give away babies like free iPods. They put them in guns and shoot them out at sporting events.
~ Diablo Cody
I felt guilty about the broken china; the fallen pot ring; the fancy towels, now ruined; the dinner . . . but most of all, I was worried about Yolanda, who was in excruciating pain from burns. . . . Sean's
~ Diane Mott Davidson
He considered China's interference in Korea to be an intolerable attempt to prevent the spread of enlightenment, and the war itself not merely a struggle between two countries but a "battle for the sake of world culture."49
~ Donald Keene
It is often said in soccer that a country's particular style of play bears the fingerprints of its social and political nature. Thus the Germans are unfailingly characterized as resourceful and organized, while Brazilians are said to dance with the ball to the free-form, samba rhythms of Carnival. In the husk of cliche lies a kernel of truth. The Communist system of China had produced a collectivist style of women's soccer from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s.
~ Jere Longman
The mechanisms of dissent differed in each society, but internal unrest threatened the leadership in nearly every country-including China.
~ Jeremi Suri
By 2060, India's economy is projected to be larger than China's because of its greater population growth. India is forecast to produce about one-quarter of world GDP from 2040 through the rest of this century.
~ Jeremy J. Siegel
China will be the world's largest economy when its per capita income reaches 25 percent of that of the United States, which is forecast to occur around 2016.
~ Jeremy J. Siegel
the economy of China will become twice the size of the U.S. economy in 2025 if both countries' per capita income continues to grow at recent rates.
~ Jeremy J. Siegel