Asia Quote by Jiang Zemin

A water route to Chinese trade replacing the long, arduous Silk Road was a great dream of the Renaissance.

— Mark Kurlansky

Now we are talking about concluding a free trade agreement between the Eurasian Economic Council, recently established in the post-Soviet space, and China. A…

— Vladimir Putin

A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came…

— Charles C. Mann

“There is more going on, then, than the clumsy interventions of the west in Iraq and Afghanistan and the use of pressure in Ukraine,…

— Peter Frankopan

Nowadays, however strong an economy is, not all roads will lead only there. There will be other links between countries in Asia, with America,…

— Lee Hsien Loong

We need to remember that trade is a great peacemaker that enriches people and increases international understanding and ties between nations.

— Dan Quayle

If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.

— James J. Hill

Through the SITA initiative, we are building bridges between India and East Africa by taking Indian companies to these countries to see with their…

— Arancha Gonzalez

A key U.S. initiative in this trade war must be to develop reliable trading partners in the world.

— Jo Ann Emerson

“the conquests of the Achaemenid and Hellenistic dynasties encouraged commercial and intellectual exchanges reaching from central Asia to India to the western Mediterranean. In…

— David Christian

Pretty soon, we should see a few large regional blocs dominating global trade. The ones that lower trade barriers faster will grow faster...

— Daniel Altman

I would like to draw attention to the fact that we have gone from pure trade [with China] in traditional goods [energy resources, such…

— Vladimir Putin