China Quotes

China doesn't have a single leader. It has - a first among equals is the president, and his name will probably be Xi Jinping, almost certainly.

Evan Osnos
- President
- Leader
- China
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.

Evan Osnos

Chinese readers are buying books in translation, particularly non-fiction about China, in large numbers.

Evan Osnos
The subject of human rights in China confounds absolute pronouncements.

Evan Osnos
There's a national ambition, a collective, in a sense, political ambition, which I think is the thing we see from far away. That's the fact that China's building roads and airports and extending its reaches out into the East China Sea and the South China Sea, and in a way that's putting it into some tension with its neighbors.

Evan Osnos
Over time, the more we bring China into the world, the more the world will bring freedom to China.

Bill Clinton
- World
- Freedom
- China
The Chinese were good to us. The war years for us Russians in China were very good years.

Harry Triguboff
- War
- China
- Russians
Once I became interested in China, I flew to Beijing in 1996 to spend half a year studying Mandarin. The city stunned me.

Evan Osnos