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China Quotes by Rebecca MacKinnon
- Nothing ever goes as planned in China.
- The trend in China is toward tighter and tighter control. They are basically improving their censorship mechanisms.
- If they lose their legal basis for owning a .cn domain, google.cn would cease to exist, or if it continued to exist, it would be…
- China is building a model for how an authoritarian government can survive the Internet.
- Clearly Google is searching for a way to do business in China that avoids them sending someone to jail over an e-mail.
- It would be normal for anybody running a high-profile, politically controversial operation in China to anticipate worst-case scenario, and to do everything possible to guard…
- Google attempted to run a search engine in China, and they ended up giving up.
- The user in China wants the same thing that any Internet user wants - privacy in conversations, maximum access to information, and the ability to…
- The early idealists and companies and governments have all assumed that the Internet will bring freedom. Yet China proves that this is not the case.
- There are a lot of people that think the Internet is going to bring information and democracy and pluralism in China just by existing.
- One day, people in China may be able to see the records of conversations between multinational tech companies and the Chinese authorities.
- If you want to have traction in China, you have to be in China.
- Whether or not the U.S. government funds circumvention tools, or who exactly it funds and with what amount, it is clear that Internet users in…
- While Google no longer has a search engine operation inside China, it has maintained a large presence in Beijing and Shanghai focused on research and…
- Facebook is blocked in mainland China, but is used heavily by the rest of the Chinese-speaking world, including Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan.
- Ronald Reagan, when he was campaigning for President, said that he would break relations with Communist China and re-establish diplomatic relations with Taiwan. But when…
- Many of the Kuomintang elite in Taiwan have relatives among the ruling elite here on mainland China.
- I lived in China for 9 years straight. I saw how my Chinese friends benefited and gained much more freedom to determine the course of…
- In the wake of the Internet getting shut down in Egypt - something that also happened in Xinjiang - I know that there are groups…
- People in China have a range of strong views about how children should be protected when they go online and whether the responsibility should be…
- I first came to China as a child on a visit with my family in 1978.
- If China someday gains a more fair, just, and accountable system of government, it will be due to the hard work and efforts of the…
- In China, Vietnam, Russia and several former Soviet states, the dominant social networks are run by local companies whose relationship with the government actually constrains…
More China Quotes
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- In practice, I've had a presence in China since 1998 with my commercial spaces and shops. — Giorgio Armani
- For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins… — Diane Ackerman
- Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further… — Joe Baca
- What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of… — Michele Bachmann
- I drink a bucket of white tea in the morning. I read about this tea of the Emperor of China, which is… — Antonio Banderas
- China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals. — Brigitte Bardot
- I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries. — Jose Manuel Barroso
- Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin… — Robert Benchley
- I always love China, especially the old China. — Manolo Blahnik
- China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to be closer… — Michael Bloomberg