Of course, in China, there’s already plenty of people who like badminton. I’m hoping more foreigners, Americans, and other countries can get into this sport. – Lin Dan
While cheap products are exported to western countries, the waste is dumped mostly in China’s back yard, contaminating its air, water, soil and seas. – Ma Jun
With its population making up one fifth of the world’s total, China offers a market with enormous potential. – Li Keqiang
It’s never easy at the Olympic level. Russia, Romania and China always are contenders. – Jaycie Phelps
U.S. officials and outside experts agree that China is undertaking a comprehensive modernization of its military. The Chinese military has gotten smaller but smarter. – Lee H. Hamilton
In China the underworld and officialdom have interpenetrated and become one. Criminal elements have become officialized as officials have become criminalized. – Liu Xiaobo
The Internet was invented in America but has found its largest number of users in China. – Li Yuanchao
Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth’s surface was quite outside the Mediterranean world, Persia, India, and China. – Kenneth Scott Latourette
When ‘designed in Europe’ is combined with ‘made in China’ and when European technologies are applied to the Chinese market, there will be amazing results. – Li Keqiang
My grandfather, on my father’s side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar. – Maya Lin
Empires will come and go. The Soviet Union collapses; China can become a superpower, but ‘Blue Peter’ stays the same. – Louis Theroux
No company fails in communist China, because they’re all partly owned by the government. – Jim Bunning
He was an Italian kid traveling in China, and I’m of Italian decent with a fascination for China. So, I always felt this connection to him and lived vicariously through the travels of Marco Polo. – John Fusco
When I hear people flatteringly say, ‘You’re an expert on East Asia…’ I’m certainly an observer of East Asia, and central Asia, and ASEAN, and to a lesser extent South Asia and the Gulf, but there’s always something behind the wall in China. – Jenny Shipley
iPhone4 is sold in the U.S., Europe and elsewhere, but it was assembled in China. As the world’s center for the processing of IT products, China’s environment is paying the price. – Ma Jun
China frequently confounds stock market prognosticators because it has a penchant for straying markedly from other broad global indexes year-by-year over the decades – even from emerging markets. It’s hit or miss. – Kenneth Fisher
China and India are close neighbours linked by mountains and rivers and the Chinese and Indian peoples have enjoyed friendly exchanges for thousands of years. – Li Peng
China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to be closer to their markets. – Michael Bloomberg
I’m Chinese-American, of course, and so it’s very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so. – Leroy Chiao
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No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China’s behavior overnight. – Madeleine Albright
China is very entrepreneurial but has no rule of law. Europe has rule of law but isn’t entrepreneurial. Combine rule of law, entrepreneurialism and a generally pro-business policy, and you have Apple. – Marc Andreessen