Believe Quote by Wen Jiabao

China is a very big and complicated country; it's not easy to govern. But with courage and unity, China will certainly overcome all difficulties…

— Lee Hsien Loong

I am very optimistic about the long run prospects for democracy in China. Chinese society is being dramatically and rapidly transformed. And there’s rising…

— Larry Diamond

My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what…

— Ma Jian

If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and liberties in China.

— Gary Locke

I see the future of China as growth. I think that historically China has often gone through periods of consolidation, and then periods of…

— Henry A. Kissinger

If there has been any progress in the Chinese society and politics over the last 20 years, it is all because the citizens have…

— Liu Xiaobo

I always think that reforms and turning China into a free country is a long and tortuous process. Despite this, in a totalitarian state,…

— Liu Xiaobo

There will, in my view, come a time when there has to be some kind of political denouement inside China, because the newly enriched…

— John Howard

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot…

— Dalai Lama

Chinese no longer crave so much for food and accommodation, but they do crave democracy. I stand by that. I don't know which model…

— Zhang Xin

Well, as you've said, we cannot expect the people of China not to want to progress, so if you have an opportunity to progress,…

— Anonymous

I agree with those who say that democracies need to work together more effectively to stand up for the liberal democratic model that China…

— David Lidington