Because Quote by Ai Weiwei

Chinese citizens have never had the right to really express their opinions; in the constitution it says you can, but in the real world…

— Ai Weiwei

Any politician who respects China's government should tell it openly what is in his heart. It is disrespectful to keep quiet about such issues…

— Ai Weiwei

Some people in China don't look at freedom of speech as an abstract ideal, but more as a means to an end.

— Yiyun Li

All the experience the Chinese people have accumulated through several decades teaches us to enforce the people's democratic dictatorship, that is, to deprive the…

— Mao Zedong

Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is a political…

— Michael Anti

“…It's as if they actually think that what other people think of them somehow doesn't matter. I mean, I know we're all supposed to…

— David Mitchell

The Chinese government clearly does pay attention to public opinion expressed on the Internet - the extent to which they choose to adapt their…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

“In fact, after living in Communist China for so many years, I realized that one of the advantages enjoyed by a democratic government that…

— Nien Cheng

People are annoyed with the Chinese for not respecting more human rights. But with a population that size it's very difficult to have the…

— Peter Ustinov

I have spoken to Chinese leaders occasionally on human rights, but I've always done it in private.

— Henry Kissinger

China has always maintained that all countries, big or small, rich or poor, strong or weak, are equal members of the international community and…

— Li Peng

Emphasis in China is done aggressively. Sometimes, this is done rudely, but most of the time it's just done routinely. It's just a normal…

— Howard W. French