The North Korean capital, Pyongyang, is a city consecrated to the worship of a father-son dynasty. (I came to think of them, with their nuclear-family implications, as ‘Fat Man and Little Boy.’) And a river runs through it. And on this river, the Taedong River, is moored the only American naval vessel in captivity. It...

Thinking Reports enable the prisoners to wash their brains, and become new!” he announced cheerfully. “Washing the brain is very important to your reform, and improving your real situation.

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I’m not in manufacturing, but I make something. I make a difference. But to be honest, I think China can make it cheaper.

The message should be: this is what we need to do right now, but continued aggression and hostility on the part of China will clearly provoke more responses by the United States and the sale of the Aegis cruiser is certainly not out of the question in the future.

Mientras contemplaba al presidente tendido en el sarcófago de cristal, recordé la sensación de cataclismo que había tenido dos años antes al oír la noticia de su fallecimiento; el desengaño al descubrir que en el mundo no había dioses. Ni en sueños habríamos creído que el presidente Mao moriría un día, pero murió. Creíamos que...

Beijing? Freedom? Oil and water.

When China had a planned economy our material circumstances were not rich but our society was much more peaceful and stable. We didn’t have the polarization between rich and poor we are seeing today.

I will tell him that I’ve always thought he was a monster. And that I want to be his bride

We were meant to survive because of our minds’ ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We wore smiling masks while dying inside.

1. Bangladesh…. In 1971 … Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civilian massacre policy in East Bengal and their armed attack on India from West Pakistan…. This led to a moral and political catastrophe the effects of which are still sorely felt. Kissinger’s undisclosed reason for the...

We are looking at China as a long-term market exercise.

The U.S. has exaggerated its trade deficit with China.

It may take a while for India to be like China, but we are seeing signs of automakers getting ready to enter the market. China and India are and will become the markets where all the major auto manufacturers want to be in.

In China the underworld and officialdom have interpenetrated and become one. Criminal elements have become officialized as officials have become criminalized.

China wants the highest-level reception to reinforce the importance of the relationship.

It?s a great surprise to me — a good surprise, … In China I know they have an appetite to do classical music, but the standard was low until five years ago. Now, boom, something happened, because all the good people are young, like 17, 18 or 19. They were not around five years ago.

Measured in terms of the World Bank poverty standard, the number of poor people in China fell from 652 million to 135 million between 1981 and 2004 – in other words, more than half a billion people were lifted out of poverty. The number of poor people in the developing world as a whole declined...

I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don’t care.

China owns more of our bonds than do Americans. That’s not a good position to be in.

It’s the bonds forged over baijiu, more than anything else, that keep me coming back for another ganbei despite the hiccups, figurative and literal. You can learn more about someone after three shots of baijiu than in years of sober tea sipping.

But China lacks an inspection force that can come in and shut down operations when the conditions demand it. They’ll say they close lots (of unsafe mines), but they’re not really serious.

Moving to a truly flexible exchange rate requires a lot of preparatory steps. China is seriously engaged in taking these preparatory steps,

Media work needs ideals. Maybe thirty years from now, after I retire, I’ll see the media mature and make the transition from political party, interest group, and corporate to truly public. But over the next ten years, the encroachment of commercialism and worldliness will loom much larger than the democratization we imagine. -Jin Yongquan in...

In Chinese business culture, humility is a virtue.

I think it is important that China be in the WTO. But they must come in a commercially-meaningful way. And that means that their market has to be open for U.S. products to be sold into.? They should live by the rules the rest of the world lives by.

For a developing nation like China, protecting intellectual property rights is a process … We hope to shorten this process as much as possible, but it’s difficult to eliminate it overnight.

When you’re in another country, remember to do as the locals do, since it is your ways that may seem strange of offensive to them.

China shares will continue to get market attention.

China is playing the role of mediator. Its hosting of the six-party talks forces the United States and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to sit at the negotiating table and work toward a peaceful solution.

In practice, I’ve had a presence in China since 1998 with my commercial spaces and shops.

China stresses the need to stick to the objective of a nuclear-free peninsula, and stick to a course of dialogue and peaceful resolution, so as to preserve peace and stability on the peninsula and in the region,

I was performing my ritual of sipping tea, shooting flirtatious glances and planning murder

I think that China has many outstanding authors, and their great works should also be recognised by the world.

Lao Tzu’s first paragraph in the book “Tao Te Ching” is that the Tao that can be told is not the absolute Tao.Lao Tzu has his own logic, the logic of paradoxes, the logic of life.To understand Tao, you will have to create eyes.Lao Tzu believes in the unity of opposites, because that is how...

If some cities in southern China could set up ice rinks or indoor ski resorts and involve more people, the reserve force of the country’s winter sportsmen will become larger.

Why was I still traveling? Was it purely because it was better than turning around and going home, where I would have to make grown-up choices about my future? Or was I waiting to happen across a place that would tell me to stay?

If McDonald’s is going to be a $45 to $50 stock someday, they’re going to need growth from China.

We’re taking a long-term market perspective with China.

China expresses regret (over their decision).

The election in Taiwan region is a local election in China.

It is unfair to slam web sites’ deletion of harmful content in China, which web sites in other countries like the US regularly do.

Perhaps the most overpowering contrast [with the West] is the virtual absence in premodern China of the idea of a transcendent creator God who is distinct from Nature in a fundamental qualitative sense. The Chinese had notions of a supreme god in various guises (that is, ‘hypatotheism’), and also, as we have seen, of a...

The problem is that the textile issue between China and the United States is mixed with many other factors.

After years of efforts, it’s time for China to develop 3G.

This is a very important step in improving U.S.-China trade relations. Problems still exist, but what this illustrates is they can sit down, talk and resolve disputes.

Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to produce these books? Is it possible that Galilei ascertained the mechanical principles of ‘Virtual Velocity,’ the laws of falling bodies and of all motion; that Copernicus ascertained the true position of the earth...

Chopsticks”–only not with my fingers, but rather I’ll be using two forks.

Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China’s continued development. That’s according to me, but it is not some wacko view.

Legend has it that while drinking wine in a boat on the river, [8th century Chinese poet Li Po] tried to grab the moon’s reflection on the surface and tumbled in, which is probably the poet’s equivalent of dying bravely in battle.