China Quotes · Page 23

Every restriction of trade creates vested interests that are from then on opposed to its removal.

— Ludwig von Mises

China more than two milleniums ago had already considered the idea of democracy, but at that time she could not put it…

— Sun Yat-sen

If you ask me why I left China, it's just that I went for a stroll and strolled too far away.

— Mu Xin

Consistently, Baidu has censored politically sensitive search results much more thoroughly than Google.cn.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

The Internet was invented in America but has found its largest number of users in China.

— Li Yuanchao

I will make great deals with China and they will like us more than they do now. You know they don't even…

— Donald Trump

After aircraft production, the entertainment industry is America's largest source of trade surplus.

— Tyler Cowen

The Chinese government sometimes shuts down the Internet and mobile services in specific areas where unrest occurs.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

China is doing lots of things right. It's investing in education and R&D, it's opening up, it's more cosmopolitan than it's ever…

— Amy Chua

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it's a great place to…

— Anthony Bourdain

I love free trade. I love the concept of free trade. Everything about it is good. I went to the Wharton School…

— Donald Trump

Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China…

— Terry Eagleton

The IT people who have made such an effort to know and understand computer technology. They are frustrated that you cannot use…

— Ai Weiwei

We are willing to consider any rebalancing as long as it's through trade expansion, not through trade restriction. As long as it's…

— Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal

German and English firms operate internationally, while French firms do not. The only place where they all have work is in China.…

— Helmut Jahn

Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot…

— Jo Ann Emerson

“Measured in terms of the World Bank poverty standard, the number of poor people in China fell from 652 million to 135…

— Wang Shaoguang

“In Confucian thought, individuals practice moral virtue both by restraining themselves and pursuing their own interests. This is a dual push-and-pull process.…

— Patrick Mendis

I'm against American corporations buying politicians to remove limits to greed, capitalizing on other people's misery, actively creating misery on which to…

— Greg Saunier

Today, practically every country outside the West is undergoing an intellectual, political, and cultural churning, from China to Bolivia, Egypt to Indonesia,…

— Pankaj Mishra

I don't think anybody knows it was Russia that broke into the DNC. [Hillary Clinton] is saying Russia, Russia, Russia, but I…

— Donald Trump

A China that trades extensively with the U.S. and its Asian neighbors will think twice before it pursues any policy that would…

— Richard N. Haass

I think U.S. and China is a big opportunity, to be seen as partner or some kind of strategic partner maybe. But…

— Ai Weiwei

I was born in Evanston, Illinois. I spent my elementary and part of my junior high school years in a D.C. suburb.…

— Abigail Washburn

I like PBS. I love Big Bird ... But I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money…

— Mitt Romney

It's been years, decades, since a president has lost a major trade initiative. That would be bad headlines.

— Gwen Ifill

They are my friends. If they are the Beatles or the kings of China, it doesn't matter lo me.

— Astrid Kirchherr

The United States must not see China or Russia through a zero-sum prism.

— Antony Blinken

It was the greatest contribution towards the whole of human race, made by China, is to prevent its 1.3 billion people from hunger.

— Xi Jinping

In China, we are considering ways of resolving our problems by improving our institutions.

— Deng Xiaoping

“With over one billion people, I’d say China is the best place to have group sex.”

— Jarod Kintz

Even playing in China and with the Opals, basketball got really negative for me.

— Liz Cambage

The problem is you cannot have free global trade with highly restrictive, regulated domestic markets.

— Alan Greenspan

The position is that stability and peace in Asia depend on a cooperative relationship between China and the United States.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Oh, for eloquence to plead the cause of China, for a pencil dipped in fire to paint the condition of this people.

— Hudson Taylor

There is big resistance from vested interests in China that don't want to open up to competition.

— Henry Paulson

We've lost tens and hundreds of thousands of jobs because of the way NAFTA was negotiated.

— Robert Blaha

We understand U.S. position, but we have to find a way to make trade translate into better jobs in North America.

— Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal

Our goal is to upgrade the life of China's middle class. We all want to live better.

— Guo Guangchang

The coronavirus pandemic is a wake-up call for everyone that we must completely rethink our relationship with China.

— Michael Waltz