Answers Quote by Edward Snowden

Now, I know it's a widespread assumption in the West that as countries modernize, they also westernize. This is an illusion. It's an assumption…

— Martin Jacques

Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the…

— Martin Jacques

China is, indeed, in so many ways, not like the West. It is not even primarily a nation state but a civilisation state. Whereas…

— Martin Jacques

We still insist, by and large, in thinking that we can understand China by simply drawing on Western experience, looking at it through Western…

— Martin Jacques

China's propaganda approach with the West is different than the one used by the Soviet Union, which used Western belligerence to maintain its control…

— Erin O'Toole

I have viewed the West as if it were not only the salvation of China but also the natural and ultimate destination of all…

— Liu Xiaobo

There's this long history of colonialism and the colonial gaze when applied to matters related to China. So a lot of conceptions about China…

— Ken Liu

It is quite possible that China may reach the stages of socialism and communism considerably later than your countries in the West which are…

— Mao Zedong

My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led…

— Liu Xiaobo

Do understand: Chinese people are brilliant; the West cannot fool them.

— Andre Vltchek

As China is about adaptation, not transformation, it is unlikely to change the world dramatically should it ever assume the global driver's seat. But…

— Ivan Krastev

China is never going to be a global model. Western system is really broken in some fundamental ways, but the Chinese system is not…

— Francis Fukuyama