China Quotes - Page 29

• China is absolutely one of the biggest players in the world and if Britain wants to be connected to the world it has to be connected to China.

  George Osborne

  Player, Want, World

  Source: www.economist.com

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• At the moment we are hard-wired into the European markets - 50% of our exports go to Europe - and that has not been good for the UK. So I'm not saying "make Britain entirely dependent on China". I'm saying "let's diversify a bit". When I became chancellor, China was our ninth largest trading partner. This is the world's second biggest economy. China was doing more business with Belgium than it was with Britain.

  George Osborne

  Europe, World, Moments

  Source: www.economist.com

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• I think we woefully failed to connect Britain to the growing Chinese economy in the previous decade, and I have sought to remedy that. China is now the sixth biggest trading partner with the UK. We have attracted now the lion's share of Chinese investment that is going into Europe.

  George Osborne

  Thinking, Europe, Chinese

  Source: www.economist.com

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• Even a China growing at 7% or indeed less is still adding to the world economy an economy equivalent to the UK or more.

  George Osborne

  World, Growing, Economy

  Source: www.economist.com

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• What I'm interested in is Britain projecting itself abroad, and through that its values and the things it holds dear. And I don't think you do that by refusing to talk to the world's second-largest economy [China]. In fact, that is positively counter-productive in my view.

  George Osborne

  Thinking, Views, World

  Source: www.economist.com

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• Just as it wouldn't be right to only to have an economic dialogue with China, equally you shouldn't restrict your dialogue solely to issues around, say, human rights. You can raise all those issues, and that is what reflects a mature discussion. So I don't think essentially we have to choose between being partners in China's economic development and being proud defenders of British values.

  George Osborne

  Thinking, Issues, Rights

  Source: www.economist.com

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• [In the Field Museum of Natural History] we could see very simple, primitive, hand-built pottery from Babylonia and ancient Egypt and so forth, Greece. We could see the most sophisticated things that came out of the Orient - Japan, Korea, and China - some few pieces of European porcelain, majolica [tin glazed earthenware], and that sort of thing. But they had a marvelous collection.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Simple, Museums, Egypt

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I want to go Africa. I want to go to China. There are some places I want to go not to work, but to really explore and to see for my own education.

  Diana Ross

  Want, My Own

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You can have a lot of New York and still see what's going on in the rest of the world, I think - like in China.

  Diana Ross

  New York, Thinking, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• London has always been open to trade, people, ideas. We have to keep that. I want to compete not just with New York, Paris, Berlin... the ten fastest growing cities in the world are in China. How do we compete with them? We have to attract investment and we have to compete on skills.

  Sadiq Khan

  New York, Skills, Cities

  Source: www.alastaircampbell.org

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• Britain cannot compete with China or Taiwan on price; we compete on skills, on arts and culture.

  Sadiq Khan

  Art, Skills, Taiwan

  Source: www.alastaircampbell.org

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• The BRIC countries - Brazil, India, China, Turkey, South Africa, Indonesia even, and Russia - are now new actors. Over the last eight years, China multiplied by seven its economic presence and penetration in the Middle East. And if this happens on economic terms and there is a shift towards the East, the relationship between these countries and Israel is completely different from the United States. And it means that the challenges are going to be different, because China is not supporting Israel the way the U.S. are supporting Israel.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Country, Mean, Years

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• I talk with countries, whether it's the Arab states or in the Middle East, and they talk about how they're glad to see us fighting against Iran. I talk with different countries in reference to Syria, and we talk about how we can get the Iranian influence out. We're talking about North Korea and what we need to do and the pressure we need to put on China. They're happy that we're finally beating up on Russia for what they've done in the Ukraine.

  Nikki Haley

  Country, Fighting, Russia

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. April 2, 2017.

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• The only country that can stop North Korea is China.

  Nikki Haley

  Country, Korea, North Korea

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• China and Russia play very different roles. They both are getting involved across the world in all different pockets. Their tentacles are everywhere. Russia is doing it through elections and through military actions and through trying to get involved in conversations. China is doing it economically. If you look at their infrastructure, they are everywhere in the world now and they want to continue to do that so that they have a stronghold.

  Nikki Haley

  Military, Russia, Play

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Singapore and China, which don't want to encourage democratic citizenship, are expanding their humanities curricula. These reforms are all about developing a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Humanity, Innovation, Reform

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• The GDP approach doesn't address many aspects of human life: health, education, political liberty, religious liberty, employment opportunities. And these are not all that well correlated with gross domestic product. We also have to think about equality among groups. And freedom of speech and religion. China always ranks near the top of developing countries these days, but there are lots of things we might see as lacking in China.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Country, Religious, Thinking

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• That's what the left is always doing. They have an ideal, and they want people to conform to it. When people don't conform to it, they end up being beaten into the mold. And beaten sometimes hard enough so that if they don't fit, then they kill them. That's what happened in the Soviet Union and China.

  Mark Helprin

  People, Unions, Want

  Source: americasfuture.org

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• There are terrible disasters and tragedies and miseries all over the place, in places like Africa with the atrocities in Darfur, India until recently, and China. So many of them have been brought to our notice by television that we've almost become inured to cruelty and disasters and hopelessness in the world. We don't seem to have made an awfully good job of running things as a sort of planetary cabinet.

  Colin Dexter

  Running, Jobs, Tragedy

  Source: strandmag.com

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• To be honest, there are many things said about Russia because they have been demonized for years at the behest of the USA. It is part of the greatness of a European country to develop one's own opinion and to not view everything through the US lens. We have no lesson to teach Russia if we concurrently roll out the red carpet to Qatar, Saudi Arabia and China.

  Marine Le Pen

  Country, Greatness, Views

  Source: www.eunews.it

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• My books serve as archives of thoughts and emotions, like a tonal history that captures how I felt at a certain time of my life. It's not very informational. You're not going to get comprehensive knowledge about the Han dynasty of China or about India's Emergency. But you might learn how one person felt about the Los Angeles Olympics.

  Sarnath Banerjee

  Book, India, Archives

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Every time I would arrive in China I would go through a few days of depression from being reminded of both short-term and long-term ruin; the ruining of the city that is happening in the short-term, and the ruining of culture and history that has happened over decades. When you see a building that says so much about the culture that built it being destroyed, there are a lot of emotions. You feel a lot of anger when you see a building being destroyed and realize that it's just a small part of what's going on in the entire country.

  Sze Tsung Leong

  Country, Cities, Long

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The paradox in China is that while some things change very rapidly, others don't. The appearance of its cities may be entirely different, but the inner workings behind these changes still persist: the regulation of society, the hierarchies of power, the relationship of the individual to the majority.

  Sze Tsung Leong

  Cities, Majority, Different

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The US is the wrecking machine that is destroying everything. The world is hoping that China will somehow come to the rescue.

  Noam Chomsky

  Machines, World, Destroying

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There are some serious limitations in Mo Yan's situation as a writer in China today - just as there are for Jia Zhangke, one of the world's greatest film directors. He can only phrase his dissent obliquely, in his art. Writers in "free" societies labor under no such constraints. They can write more or less whatever they want in both their fiction and their commentary. Yet so many of them look oddly inhibited, even timid, and depressingly a couple of prominent figures actually positioned themselves to the right of their governments, intelligence agencies, and corporations.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Art, Couple, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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