China Quote by Patrick Mendis

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

— Patrick Mendis

“China has no choice but to emulate the power of America’s founding ideas and its journey through the universal values of democratic freedom and…

— Patrick Mendis

“China reminds me most of America at its own moment of transformation—the period that Mark Twain and Charles Warner named the Gilded Age, when…

— Evan Osnos

“Like the United States, China thought of itself as playing a special role. But it never espoused the American notion of universalism to spread…

— Henry Kissinger

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

— Patrick Mendis

“China is constantly reinventing itself and so is the United States.”

— Patrick Mendis

“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

“No doubt Confucius, as a person and as represented in the written tradition, is suffering an eclipse in Communist China because he is associated…

— James R. Ware

“The time would come when every leader in the world would read the writings of the Chinese Communists—for it was barely possible that the…

— T. R. Fehrenbach

I find Chinese debates about their political system domestically, but also about China's claims in the international system, to be among the most original…

— Timothy Garton Ash

“China is where Nazi Germany was in 1929 to 1930. The Chinese, like the Germans, are the most rational people in the world, until…

— Michael Wolff

Our youths are constantly trying to learn everything the West has to teach, but what is newest in the West has existed in China…

— Sun Yat-sen