The Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai World Expo show just how much effort China is willing to spend to enter the global… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic… — Chen Shui-bian Copy Share Image
Many people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don't design it, somebody else has… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Beijing didn't go the way I planned and I would have liked to have performed a little bit better personally. After Beijing… — Alicia Sacramone Copy Share Image
On top of my to-do list in preparing for Beijing is 'On China' by Henry Kissinger, who has had firsthand experience with… — Gary Locke Copy Share Image
The Chinese have figured out that they have a giant environmental problem. Folks in Beijing, some days, literally can't breathe. Over a… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
I took my little brother, and we went from Beijing to Ulan Bator, and then took a helicopter to the southern Gobi.… — Milla Jovovich Copy Share Image
In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
President Obama is in China now for an economic summit in Beijing. The president wore a traditional purple silk shirt along with… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
Like students going to school, the planes on their bombing missions fly over Beijing each morning. And each time I hear their… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Vancouver. I moved to Beijing in 2010 just before the Olympics. Being an Asian Canadian actor,… — Osric Chau Copy Share Image
Our company has only been active in Beijing and Shanghai, two very market-dominated cities. This was an advantage. Land is purchased here… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
When we started out, we were among the first. Beijing had no and Shanghai had very few large buildings. At that time,… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
Now, as the world's scientists focus with increasing intensity on transforming the genetic codes of every living creature into information that can… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
Beijing is an example of [families were displaced for the Olympics]. Something like 10,000 families were moved out. — Gary Hustwit Copy Share Image
I came back [to Beijing ] because that's the only time I had an excuse to come back, or otherwise I would… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Ask yourself: if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Every case involving cybercrime that I've been involved in, I've never found a master criminal sitting somewhere in Russia or Hong Kong… — Frank Abagnale Copy Share Image
In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world… — Jet Li Copy Share Image
I painted the words "GREAT ADVENTURE" in Beijing, Dallas, San Francisco, Copenhagen, and Japan. What it means to me is completely different… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Space is about 100 kilometers away. That’s far away—I wouldn’t want to climb a ladder to get there—but it isn’t that far… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
China has some cities, traditional cities, with a long history. They are so beautiful, and they were planned so smartly. I call… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
Imagine a State occasion where the Queen is wearing trainers with her tiara because she thinks it will make people like her… — Peter York Copy Share Image
If China's expansion into Africa and Russia's into Latin America and the former Soviet Union are any indication, Silicon Valley's ability to… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
The obvious precedent for Beijing 2008 was the Berlin Olympics, in 1936. Both were showcases for a muscle-flexing nation, although Hitler made… — Anthony Lane Copy Share Image
I’m aware that there is a bigger, far more complicated world out there than I’d ever realized, and just like the students… — Susan Jane Gilman Copy Share Image
What's interesting is whilst Shanghai has gone stellar - literally, in these massive buildings which have appeared since I first visited -… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
I think the biggest thing was that I was putting pressure on myself leading up to Beijing. Now I am learning how… — Ryan Hall Copy Share Image
We now live in a world where the most valuable skill you can sell is knowledge. Revolutions in technology and communication have… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up… — Gary Locke Copy Share Image
Dalai Lama was leading his country during the rigors of World War II, he was in Beijing for a year in 1954;… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Air pollution is my biggest concern right now. Maybe because I live in Beijing, and in this city we have such severe… — Li Bingbing Copy Share Image
At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Once in a while - perhaps every 10 years, or even every generation - a novel appears that profoundly questions the way… — Tash Aw Copy Share Image
I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design,… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Often GOP political strategy seems like the human wave theory of the Chinese military translated to politics. Where Beijing uses masses of… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
When we started out, we didn't really think that the era of great opportunity would end one day. We were much too… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
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