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Quotes About China

China's propaganda approach with the West is different than the one used by the Soviet Union, which used Western belligerence to maintain its control over its domestic audience. China's strategy is one of influence and inertia.
~ Erin O'Toole
China's strategy is to rob, replicate and replace. China robs American companies of their intellectual property. They replicate our technology.
~ Tommy Tuberville
You know, oil prices from 2007, on the strength of a very robust global economy and a very robust emerging China, many of you will recall, ramped up to near $150 a barrel. Then we had the financial - U.S. financial collapse. Oil prices collapsed all the way down to $40 a barrel.
~ Rex Tillerson
We can squabble between the siblings in Europe and not be very productive and then see China and the U.S. win over the European region. Or - and this is my preferred choice - we team up together and are the strong region that we want to be, using each others' strengths and building on our commonalities to become the smartest region in the world.
~ Frans van Houten
China has become a major presence for most countries around the world but notably for its neighboring countries in Asia. So I think it is a common position for Japan and its Asian neighbors that we certainly would strive to maintain as much as possible friendly relations with China.
~ Naoto Kan
When the nation can act freely, then China may be called strong. To make the nation free, we must each sacrifice his freedom.
~ Sun Yat-sen
Chinese experts noted that the U.S. economy has rebounded from the 2008 crash more strongly than some analysts here had expected, while China's own growth is slowing after several decades of rocket-ship acceleration.
~ David Ignatius
China will stay firmly committed to the basic state policy of opening-up. We will actively and effectively use foreign investment, improve its structure, diversify its form and open up more channels and sectors so as to facilitate investment.
~ Hu Jintao
My parents were electrical engineers, immigrants from China, and we were always just in a state of struggle, building our life.
~ Simu Liu
In 2014, we were opposing President Xi Jinping. Five years later, we are opposing Emperor Xi Jinping.
~ Joshua Wong
So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition.
~ William C. Kirby
A key player with respect to sanctions is, of course, China. And so, if a military option were to be exercised, then obviously we would play very heavily in that process. But that's not a decision, fortunately, that the intelligence community makes.
~ James Clapper
I talked to Oscar about Shanghai SIPG before he made the move.
~ Hulk
I deal with foreign countries. I made a lot of money dealing against China. I've made a lot of money dealing against many other countries.
~ Donald Trump
We should be growing and make ourselves, as a state and a nation, more competitive. India, China and these other countries are not waiting for us.
~ Mike Quigley
There's something about China and its rush to capitalism that I find confusing. At the same time, we live in an America where capitalists oppose any government interference with free markets, while in China you have a very controlled, state-planned market where economic growth is better than ours.
~ David Henry Hwang
From the first time that I went over to China, I think I was around the age of 17, 18, and just going there and seeing that their technology being years ahead of ours in America, it sparked something with me back then.
~ Soulja Boy
China's government has far more control over the country's economy than our government has over ours, and it is moving from export dependence to a model of growth driven by domestic demand. Any restriction on exports to the U.S. would simply accelerate a process already underway.
~ Joseph Stiglitz
There's a real contradiction that's difficult to explain to the West and the outside world about China and about the Internet.
~ Rebecca MacKinnon
Fans in China are very different from those overseas. In China, many people really love me and care about my life. But there is always some jealousy mixed up in this feeling of love. I think that is the big difference. Overseas, there is none of that.
~ Gong Li
If you donate overseas, it's a simple matter. In mainland China, there are so many headaches.
~ Ronnie Chan
My dad was in furniture for 35 years. He got run out of furniture when everything went to China, went overseas. Manufacturing in the country broke down. Everything left.
~ Eric Church
If, by one determined purpose, the hearts of all the graduates, the officials, and the men of China were united, our country would rest upon a great rock, and we could defy the world to overthrow us. To attain this object, it is necessary first that every man should fulfill his duty to his parents and elders. The country would then be at peace.
~ Zhang Zhidong
The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought.
~ Tom Lantos