China Quotes
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China's Communist Party is wary of independent-minded movements.
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In the end, as much as the responsibility seems to lie with Beijing, it also lies with the global consumer. Our appetite for the $30 DVD player and the $3 T-shirt helps keep jewelry factories filled with dust, illegal mines open and 16-year-olds working past midnight. We all pay the China price.
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There's a reason the Chinese government is very concerned about Ai Weiwei. It's because he has all of these ingredients in his life that allow him to attract enormous attention across a very broad spectrum of the population.
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Chinese readers are buying books in translation, particularly non-fiction about China, in large numbers.
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The Chinese were good to us. The war years for us Russians in China were very good years.
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The subject of human rights in China confounds absolute pronouncements.
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Over time, the more we bring China into the world, the more the world will bring freedom to China.
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Once I became interested in China, I flew to Beijing in 1996 to spend half a year studying Mandarin. The city stunned me.
