China Quotes

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
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

For years, American officials visiting China marvelled at how Chinese leaders could push through infrastructure projects and sweeping legislative changes without the complications of opposition and the niceties of voting.

Evan Osnos
- American
- Leaders
- Voting
The Chinese were good to us. The war years for us Russians in China were very good years.

Harry Triguboff
- War
- China
- Russians
If you're going to have a book published in China, that means that you're going to be subject to in-house censorship at the publisher, and then also, of course, the government has an apparatus that is in charge of making sure that ideas that are considered disruptive or overly critical, that those don't get onto bookstore shelves.

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

Bill Clinton
- World
- Freedom
- China