China Quote by Patrick Mendis

“The sacrifices of time and money that Chinese friends will make for one another often go far beyond what is expected or accepted in…

— Larry Herzberg

“If we wish to understand the role of China in today's global society, we would do well to remind ourselves of the tragic, titanic…

— Rana Mitter

“after seeing decades of Maoist campaigns, that idealism mostly resulted in misery. China would be helped only as ordinary citizens went about bettering their…

— Gordon G. Chang

“I believe that the world's stability and prosperity will depend on how well China and the West understand each other, trust each other, and…

— Helen H. Wang

“The emergence of China is the most dramatic event in economic history. We are living in an age of convergence no less dramatic than…

— Edward Luce

Once [China] had a destiny. Once she was a conqueror. Now her greatest destiny seems to be merely to exist, to survive.

— Lin Yutang

“The United States is the result of an enlightened philosophy; China is the outcome of traditions and history.”

— Patrick Mendis

“Since the 1990s, the ruling class of China has endeavoured to produce an ideological fantasy through the machinery of propaganda development (increase in GDP)…

— Chen Qiufan

“China is a poor country. The economic development everybody talks about has only benefited a limited part of the population. If this way of…

— Henning Mankell

The Chinese nation is a great nation; it has been through hardships and adversity but remains indomitable.

— Xi Jinping

“This two-track plan of nationalism and development (in China) is a historically powerful weapon.”

— Patrick Mendis

China is more prosperous than before. The people have better lives but they are not happy and confident because the scars are still there.

— Jung Chang