Increasingly, the real estate developers can’t get bank loans for their project financing in China. They’re now going into the Hong Kong market to raise money in the bond market at very, very high rates, as high as 15, 20 percent. – James Chanos
The industrialization of China alone would increase by 90 percent the concentration of CO2 in our atmosphere and would at least increase the atmospheric CO2 by at least another 100 parts per million. – John Olver
China should cut heavy industries’ share in gross domestic output by 9 percentage points between 2013 and 2030 to meet its pollution cuts target. – Ma Jun
There’s a real contradiction that’s difficult to explain to the West and the outside world about China and about the Internet. – Rebecca MacKinnon
Facebook is blocked in mainland China, but is used heavily by the rest of the Chinese-speaking world, including Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan. – Rebecca MacKinnon
It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China’s occupation of Tibet. – Sam Brownback
It would be normal for anybody running a high-profile, politically controversial operation in China to anticipate worst-case scenario, and to do everything possible to guard against them. – Rebecca MacKinnon
There has been a rising tide of criticism about China’s treatment of foreign companies. – Rebecca MacKinnon
As a singer, I have won the highest honours in China. Actually I am like the panda: we are both national treasures. – Peng Liyuan
China’s censorship and propaganda systems may be complex and multilayered, but they are obviously not well coordinated. – Rebecca MacKinnon
China is building a model for how an authoritarian government can survive the Internet. – Rebecca MacKinnon
While China succeeded in transferring nearly 150 million people from agriculture to manufacturing, we could not do so, due to lack of skilled manpower. – Pallam Raju
Every year in China, Internet executives are officially rewarded for their ‘patriotism.’ – Rebecca MacKinnon
The early idealists and companies and governments have all assumed that the Internet will bring freedom. Yet China proves that this is not the case. – Rebecca MacKinnon
Right after September 11, 2001, there weren’t really any blogs in China, but there were a lot of Chinese chatrooms – and there were a lot of conversations in which Chinese netizens were saying things like, ‘served them right.’ That was definitely not the official Chinese government policy – which condemned the terrorists. – Rebecca MacKinnon
The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium. – Robert Trout
At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event which will be celebrated by patriotic Chinese; any patriotic American should celebrate it as well. – Robert Trout
We have believed for many years, much earlier than anyone else was talking about this issue, that it was in the interest of China to evolve to a more flexible exchange rate system. – Rodrigo Rato
One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don’t have a coalition with you, you will have a coalition against you. I don’t want to see China and Russia on the side of Iran more strongly than they are. – Shimon Peres
At Sequoia, we have opened offices in China and India, and we have made a handful of investments in Latin America/Brazil. – Roelof Botha
I haven’t heard of any cases of anti-American blog posts being censored or bloggers encountering consequences for anti-American speech on the web in China. – Rebecca MacKinnon
I had a weimaraner for 11 years called China, and he was a great dog, a bit mad. They’re massive, weimaraners; they’ve got big floppy ears. They look like a pointer, but they’re liver-coloured. – Phil Daniels
Shipping is so cheap that it makes more financial sense for Scottish cod to be sent 10,000 miles to China to be filleted, then sent back to Scottish shops and restaurants, than to pay Scottish filleters. – Rose George
It’s not just a hurricane. It’s the demand for gas in China… We’re paying $3 a gallon, and the oil companies are making historic profits every quarter. – Ron Klein
The European Tour plays all over the world: from the U.K. to China, from Korea to South Africa, and from the Middle East to southeast Asia. – Peter Uihlein