China Quotes - Page 20

• I don`t think anybody knows it was Russia that broke into the DNC. She [Hillary Clinton] is saying Russia, Russia, Russia. Maybe it was. I mean, it could be Russia. But it could also be China. It could also be lots of other people.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Mean, Thinking, Russia

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Australia is this former British colony at the foot of Asia. We've been involved - we've been in lockstep with America in every battle you have fought for a century. We were there in Vietnam. We were there in Korea. We were there in Iraq. We were there in Afghanistan. We are slightly apprehensive about the rise of China.

  Richard Glover

  Korea, Iraq, Feet

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Australia is very good friends with China, perhaps better friends than America is.

  Richard Glover

  Good Friend, America, Australia

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We haven't had a recession for 25 years in Australia. It's partly because of our trade with China.

  Richard Glover

  Years, Australia, Trade

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We haven't had a recession for 25 years in Australia. It's partly because of our trade with China. China's been doing relatively well. So some of the tensions around a low-wage economy haven't quite happened here in the same way as they have in the United States.

  Richard Glover

  Years, Australia, Way

  Source: www.npr.org

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• India may be overtaking China as the world's most polluted country. Even now, which country is worse depends on the day.

  Steve Inskeep

  Country, India, World

  "India May Be Overtaking China As Most Polluted Country". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 23, 2016.

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• It's our own throat that we are cutting in the end along with everyone else's. We need to be exercising precisely the kind of leadership that might allow us to nudge China and India, say, onto different energy trajectories, in order to improve our own chances of surviving this century.

  Bill McKibben

  Cutting, Exercise, Order

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• Somewhere like Russia or China, decision-makers have far fewer constraints on acting than in more open systems.

  Duncan Green

  Russia, Decision, Acting

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• When we do work in places like China and Vietnam, research tends to be really effective as a way of getting change, whereas in more open places, mobilization and the creation of public pressure through the media often seem to be the things we try.

  Duncan Green

  Media, Trying, Vietnam

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I suddenly realized I was getting ten opening notes a day on my mobile phone, more than when I was in New York. But this is China, where nothing is surprising.

  Ai Weiwei

  New York, Phones, Notes

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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• This is a very general understanding of art in China, that being an artist can make you money and turn you into a star.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Stars, Understanding

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 201.

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• I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future.

  Ai Weiwei

  Past, Thinking, Museums

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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• Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.

  Ai Weiwei

  Directors, Moments, Privileged

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I don't like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.

  Ai Weiwei

  Emotional, Today, Relation

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].

  Ai Weiwei

  Feelings, This Society, Secure

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Maybe [success] is because I'm in China and I'm more open. Maybe it's my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.

  Ai Weiwei

  Independent, Ideas, Behavior

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• After I came back [to China], there was still a long period of time when I felt I had nothing to do.

  Ai Weiwei

  Long, Periods, Stills

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It's very materialistic. It's full of desire and luxury goods.

  Ai Weiwei

  Luxury, Desire, Today

  Interview with Claudine Ko, believermag.com. November 1, 2007.

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• It's always the rich and there's plenty to waste, yet still China has a lot of people living in very spare, poor conditions.

  Ai Weiwei

  People, Waste, Rich

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.

  Ai Weiwei

  Past, Desire, Fields

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• China hasn't only existed for one day. Now, the whole nation has become richer and it's become a problem. The problem is universal. The factor is big. Everybody has to rethink the balance of the world and the whole landscape.

  Ai Weiwei

  Balance, One Day, World

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. 2007.

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• The society was so different [in China] - it was a feudalistic society. It didn't come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.

  Ai Weiwei

  Years, Twenties, Different

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don't think there's anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.

  Ai Weiwei

  Meaningful, Crazy, Thinking

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The [China] government has improved in the last years. Of course, the structure is still the same; there's still a one-party system and strong censorship.

  Ai Weiwei

  Strong, Party, Government

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I don't think China should care if this crazy old guy should have a show here or not. You have so many museums in the West, and so many shows, you need somebody to show the work, otherwise it's empty.

  Ai Weiwei

  Crazy, Thinking, Museums

  Interview with Claudine Ko, believermag.com. November 1, 2007.

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