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Quotes About China

According to the committee's findings, a network of mobile missiles carrying the newest warheads could be tested by China this year and deployed as early as 2002.
~ Charles Bass
China has even conducted human testing on members of the People's Liberation Army in hope of developing soldiers with biologically enhanced capabilities.
~ John Ratcliffe
Corson arrived at the Academy in September 1964 as an instructor. His course in guerrilla warfare quickly became a midshipman favorite. His teaching methods were unconventional. He had books imported from mainland China, including three volumes of Mao's writing. To Corson, the lesson was clear: if you can't outlast the guerrilla, don't get in the game.
~ Robert Timberg
There are a few much older states in existence, particularly ancient empires and their successor states such as China or Iran.
~ Robert Tombs
Although pharma is expanding in China by replacing local remedies, prices are being controlled. Here in the United States that's not the case, because your politicians are dependent on pharma campaign donations. There is much more money to be made here in all aspects of healthcare, even if there are more problems with labor.
~ Robin Cook
Every pandemic in the history of the world has come from China.
~ Lisa See
The river passes through our mountains, changing its name to Mekong where China, Laos, and Burma meet, before flowing through Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam, and eventually to the South China Sea. "Yes! It is called the Danube of the East.
~ Lisa See
someone recommended that I watch Somewhere Between, a powerful documentary about teenage adoptees, one of whom goes to China and finds her birth mother.
~ Lisa See
That virus, it's spreading from China to Europe. There's talk of a lockdown
~ Lisa Unger
A harder case is when we study about a terrible Japanese atrocity like Manchu. In this case, we Japanese people committed genocide and torture of the Chinese people, and so we learn we must feel great shame to the world.
~ Ruth Ozeki
The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.
~ Steve Forbes
The single currency should allow the European Union, and therefore France, to balance its monetary strength with the United States. It should help us adjust to the development of China.
~ Laurent Fabius
Maybe [success] is because I'm in China and I'm more open. Maybe it's my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.
~ Ai Weiwei
In China, where equality of conditions is very great and very old, a man passes from one public office to another only after submitting to a competition. This test is encountered at each step in his career, and the idea of it is so well introduced into mores that I remember having read a Chinese novel in which the hero after many vicissitudes finally touches the heart of his mistress by passing an examination well. Great ambitions breathe uneasily in such an atmosphere.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
She had packed two china teacups, wrapped in paper towels. She would not drink from anything else. He
~ Alice McDermott
Central Intelligence cutting Meo opium fields! China Lobby copping poppies in Burma! How long this Addict government support our oil-burner matter-habit
~ Allen Ginsberg
Kinas övergång till kapitalism var med andra ord ett resultat av gräsrötternas initiativ och mod. Det fanns ingen plan för det – allt som gjorde Kina rikt hände utanför femårsplanerna.
~ Johan Norberg
I believe Donald Trump would be better for America than Barack Obama, because he understands business. Donald Trump has taken a pro- life position. He believes that we're getting shanghaied by China.
~ Mike Huckabee
China is, in fact, the only country in the world to be ruled for hundreds of years, not by the nobility, nor by soldiers, nor even by the priesthood, but by scholars.
~ E.H. Gombrich
In July, Lin Piao, China's Minister of Defense, publishes a declaration, "Long Live the Victory of the People's War!" which calls upon the underdeveloped nations, likened to the "rural areas of the world," to join forces against American and Western imperialism, the "cities of the world.
~ Edgar Snow
in China, where a career of banditry in early youth often indicated a man of strong character and purpose.
~ Edgar Snow
A look at Chinese history showed that some of China's ablest patriots were at one time or another labeled bandits.
~ Edgar Snow
China and Germany are important geo-economic powers that have been able to bolster their geo-political and even military power, thanks to the opportunity provided by their geo-economic rise.
~ Sanjaya Baru
The Chinese government still would like to see U.S. Internet companies explore the Chinese market, providing they are willing to abide by Chinese law. I think companies like Facebook should think about the Chinese market.
~ Robin Li