Quotes About China

After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.

We have in-depth knowledge about Chinese industries. We know what's driving the country's economic growth.

We can't have our industry progressively destroyed by cheap Chinese imports.

Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films.

The global boom in commodities fueled by a debt-financed infrastructure and real-estate bubble in China is over.

One of the major problems with China is that its innovation is largely borrowed technology.

The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.

China's influence is growing; it is natural that they want to integrate more, do more business with countries around them, and the Belt and Road is a constructive way in which they can do so.

China's energy is very much focused on coal, and the economy is very focused on heavy industry, which is carbon intensive, so restructuring won't be easy.

I'd advise my American friends not to meddle in the internal affairs of China.

Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs.

Potentially the most dangerous scenario would be a grand coalition of China, Russia and perhaps Iran, an 'anti-hegemonic' coalition, united not by ideology but by complementary grievances. . . . Averting this contingency . . . will require a display of US geostrategic skill on the western, eastern and southern perimeters of Eurasia simultaneously." — Zbigniew Brzezinski, former foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama

The introduction of Western medicine and most especially western-conceived vaccines and medical drugs is one of the most dangerous subversions facing China today from Anglo-American power elites.

La vie religieuse de la Chine, dans ses fondements, est très antérieure aux trois grands courants de sa vie spirituelle: le confucianisme, le taoïsme (à peu près au même moment) et, bien plus tard, le bouddhisme.

Le confucianisme est en effet, avant tout, l'expression d'une caste, celle des lettrés, ceux qu'on appelle les mandarins, représentants du nouvel ordre social et politique qui s'organise peu à peu, après la désintégration féodale, en somme les administrateurs et 'fonctionnaires' de cette Chine nouvelle.

Imaginez, pour en prendre la mesure, ce qu'aurait signifié, en Europe, une série de dynasties impériales qui n'auraient rien perdu de leur pompe, ni de leur signification depuis Auguste jusqu'à la Première Guerre mondiale. [C'est la Chine]

I consumi in Cina sono oggi 11 volte superiori a quelli occidentali. Quando la Cina raggiungerà il nostro tenore di vita, i consumi mondiali raddoppieranno di volume.

Perhaps illnesses could be left behind, just like small, badly concealed china corpses.

Now, the drug is taboo. You do not fool around with it. You give yourself to it and you are caught. I have a horror of it. I have lived in China without ever being curious enough to put a pipe to my lips. It is not a question of virtue. I do not like pharmacopoeia. I like lucidity. It is my guiding star. I will have nothing to do with the vertigo of opium which, with the single exception of De Quincey, is no friend to poetry. It is a filthy poison.

Communist China is doing the same shit as America is doing, but they're out front with it.

The newspapers continue to bring bad news from China. I do not trust news which comes indirectly, and from afar at that, but - Do you remember that old tale of the woman who gave birth to an elephant? When the truth was discovered, it appeared that the midwife had said the child's nose looked a bit long . . . still, I worry.

Nu shu means women's writing. And it was a secret writing system that was invented by women, used by women and kept a secret by women in one very remote county in China for a thousand years. It's the only language that was invented and used by women to have been found anywhere in the world.

In the non-Greek stories, Persia, Egypt, even China, Central Asia, in oral traditions and written literature, anyone who fights Amazons admires their courage and beauty, and they want to be allies of the Amazon; they don't wanna kill them.

See, Indira Gandhi was wrong in declaring the Emergency. She tried to put me in jail, but she could not. People voted her back, and I worked with her after that. Even though I was not a member of the Congress, she sought my help on China. You can't have personal vendetta, you see.