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China Quotes by Noam Chomsky

22 China quotes by Noam Chomsky

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Chomsky’s contributions here are concise but packed with his trademark analytical depth. You’ll find him weighing China’s policies against broader geopolitical currents, always with a focus on power structures and media narratives. Even a short set gives a clear sense of his critical lens.

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Modern China; one also finds many things that are really quite admirable.

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Chinese military spending is carefully monitored by the United States.

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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all…

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You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.

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NAFTA was much more popular among US corporations than GATT, because NAFTA is highly protectionist in ways that GATT is not.

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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.

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I've been interested in Japan since the 1930s, when I read about Japan's vicious crimes in Manchuria and China.

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It's not a free trade agreement. It has virtually nothing to do with free trade... It's a protectionist agreement; it's anti free-trade.

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In 1949, China declared independence - an event known in Western discourse as 'the loss of China' in the U.S. - with…

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China has been there for 3,000 years, has contempt for the barbarians, is overcoming a century of domination, and simply moves on…

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Those are possibilities for technology, which don't tend to be used, because of the way power is concentrated. There are all kinds…

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Unlike Europe, China can't be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they've…

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There is a phrase in trade theory; it's called "kicking away the ladder." First you violate the rules - the market rules…

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Part of the NAFTA legislation required studies of labor practices, and there was quite a good study that came out by a…

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The main selling appeal of NAFTA to US corporations is that it gives them an advantage in the North American market over…

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Suppose that, say, China established military bases in Colombia to carry out chemical warfare in Kentucky and North Carolina to destroy this…

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China is a great manufacturing center, but it's actually mostly an assembly plant. So it assembles parts and components, high technology that…

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When [Bill] Clinton came along, it sort of moderated a little bit, but Clinton had a different device for breaking unions called…

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China is the center of the Asian energy security grid, which includes the Central Asian states and Russia. India is also hovering…

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NAFTA and GATT are quite similar. They both have highly protectionist elements. They're kind of a mixture of liberalization and protection designed…

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Moves toward sovereignty in Iraq stimulate pressures first for human rights among the bitterly repressed Shi'ite population but also toward some degree…

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The threat of China is not military. The threat of China is they can't be intimidated. Europe you can intimidate. When the…

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The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory…

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If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing?

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It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state.

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There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically they are…

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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws.…

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I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying…

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The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it…

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I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two…

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American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a…

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Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky

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There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion…

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This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system.

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