China Quotes
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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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Chinese readers are buying books in translation, particularly non-fiction about China, in large numbers.
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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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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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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.
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The subject of human rights in China confounds absolute pronouncements.
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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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Once I became interested in China, I flew to Beijing in 1996 to spend half a year studying Mandarin. The city stunned me.
