Quote by Timothy Snyder

The unspoken contract between ruler and subject is that in return for safety, prosperity, and prestige, the Russians entrust power and cede democratic freedoms…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

Business in Russia was not being done like in the West, with contracts. In Russia, hundreds of millions of dollars were going forward and…

— David Reuben

Beijing's foreign investments can be coercive and exploitative - using Chinese laborers and contractors instead of local ones, saddling poorer countries with enormous debts,…

— Antony Blinken

Contract things are kind of tough to come up with, especially with both sides and kind of how the economics and all those things…

— Mookie Betts

“Being curious in Russia has proven fatal; being curious in China can land you in prison. But”

— Brian Grazer

Russia has shown it's not above the temptation of using some bargaining power or blackmail. It shows that if there is a way to…

— Daniel Gros

Beijing is on the move in Africa - using aid, diplomacy, weapons sales and Chinese ex pats in a bid to become the preeminent…

— Robert C. O'Brien

You said treaties, and a Russian official said ; we have not agreement... contracts, that we have to fulfill, and those contracts are like…

— Bashar al-Assad

Russia and China have maintained that people prize stability over freedom and that as long as the central State creates conditions for economic growth,…

— Daniel Lubetzky

If there were any in China and Russia in this connection, though we both made some compromises. But these were compromises between friendly countries.…

— Vladimir Putin

“Beijing? Freedom? Oil and water.”

— Victor Robert Lee

We were right to seek practical cooperation with Russia and to encourage its integration as a respected power into global institutions.

— Tom Malinowski