Quotes About China

About half of the world's oil tanker shipments pass through the South China Sea, not only to China, but also to Japan and South Korea. For Japan and South Korea, the possible risk of disruption would come from actions by China. For China, however, there is only one "certain power"—the United States and, in particular, the U.S. Navy.

In 1980, the year Deng began his reforms, McLean initiated the first container service to China.

in 1959, with the discovery in Manchuria of a giant oil field named Daqing—which means "Great Celebration." By the 1980s, the domestic petroleum industry was meeting the nation's needs and also producing a surplus of oil that was exported, principally to Japan.

In 1993, China crossed an historic line—one that would shape its perspectives to the present day. It became a net importer of oil.

China's Map" is rooted both in what it calls the "Century of Humiliation" and in its tremendous gains in global economic and military power over the last two decades, and by the energy needs of what will become the world's largest economy (and, by some measure, already is).

In 2009, China overtook the United States as the world's largest auto market, and the gap continues to grow. Beijing is determined that one out of every five new vehicles sold in China by 2025 should be a NEV—a "new energy vehicle.

Because the Chinese insistence on one child, I think the proportion of older, non-working age population is going to rise sharply in China.

China has leapfrogged into this information age, and Web users have grown very significantly, which knocked down the cost of doing the environmental transparency.

one unquestionable virtue in England, which is wanting in China. The Chinese authorities kill thousands of innocent people, on the most frivolous pretexts. We, in England, are free from all guilt of that kind—we commit no such dreadful crime—we abhor reckless bloodshed, with all our hearts.

Birch fallacy is the assumption that you can infer subjective intention from objective consequence: we lost China to the Communists, therefore the President of the United States and the Secretary of State wished China to go to the Communists.

THE JAPANESE HAD already forgotten more neurosurgery than the Chinese had ever known. The black clinics of Chiba were the cutting edge, whole bodies of technique supplanted monthly, and still they couldn't repair the damage he'd suffered in that Memphis hotel.

Some man in China say th' truth comes out this', he said unwrapping an ancient, oil-slick Remington automatic shotgun, its barrel chopped off a few millimetres in front of the battered forestock.

To (the British), the Gandhi-Irwin pact had merely brought about the end of a temporarily troublesome situation. They still had no inkling of the depth of the Indian revolution that Gandhi was unleashing nor of how it was being kindled by a resurgent Indian nationalism, a nationalism that across the Himalayas was also beginning to stir China to throw off foreign domination, and that one American historian, Hans Kohn, already believed was turning into what he called The Revolt of Asia.

Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?

I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice...

Cooking and eating were growing to irritate her with their relentless necessity.

Do please," said Captain Naphi, "expedite this journey relevance-ward.

But this was not quite the right kraken apocalypse.

I do not believe the presence of moisture in the air is sufficient reason to overturn society's usual sensible taboo against wielding spiked clubs at eye level.

Where was that crisis energy in the real becoming what it was not, if what it was not was right there alongside what it was?

As in Kiev, so across the cities of Russia, among the dreaming rich.

This is called data mining." She said the last words in English. "Which of us is the canary?

A rage. Ori supposed there were as many unspeakable stories as there were men come back from war. Baron was

His Infernal Excellency," he declared, "the ambassador of Hell.