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China Quotes
Most Famous China Quotes of All Time!
China appears here as both a partner and a rival, a country whose relationships with the U.S. and its neighbors are described as layered rather than simple. One line even frames competition and partnership as coexisting comfortably in trade, a nuance worth sitting with alongside our Chinese collection.
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China has existed within very roughly its present borders for over two millennia and for virtually the whole of that period saw itself as a 'civilisation state.' It was only when it was too weak to resist the western powers in the early 20th century that it finally acquiesced in an arrangement that was alien to it.
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Since the election of Shinzo Abe as the new Japanese prime minister, by reputation a fervent nationalist, relations between Japan and China have paradoxically improved a little.
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Look at what is happening in China and in Russia. They have units that are specifically targeted cyber warfare. They are carrying it out. Our critical infrastructure is attacked thousands of times a day.
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I went to China for a brief working visit, and I thought that Shanghai was interesting, but Beijing totally grabbed me.
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Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.
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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.
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China should cut heavy industries' share in gross domestic output by 9 percentage points between 2013 and 2030 to meet its pollution cuts target.
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China's energy is very much focused on coal, and the economy is very focused on heavy industry, which is carbon intensive, so restructuring won't be easy.
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To deal with local pollution, China has put on the agenda the capping of coal, which has long been a sensitive issue.
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China is bearing the environmental cost for much of the world because China is the factory of the world.
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Every year, I send 1,000 students to China to study Chinese history, language, and culture.
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I didn't say Facebook could not enter China, but nor did I say that it could.
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Empires will come and go. The Soviet Union collapses; China can become a superpower, but 'Blue Peter' stays the same.
Beyond diplomacy, there's a nod to how classical texts function almost as a national creed, standing in for religion in Western comparisons. For more on the traditions behind these ideas, see our Chinese Culture quotes.