Attempts to locate oneself within history are as natural, and as absurd, as attempts to locate oneself within astronomy. On the day that I was born, 13 April 1949, nineteen senior Nazi officials were convicted...

China will overtake Germany by 2008.

In 2005, foreign investment into China maintained sound momentum and the quality of foreign investment improved.

Ricci created memory palaces in his mind. Each item in the palace represented a series of concepts. The rooms and locations within the palace served as directories and files, similar to computer data storage. Ricci...

China-EU relations are less complicated. When the EU negotiates with China on economic issues, it isn’t clouded by the Taiwan question or security fears.

When given the chance to see China off the beaten track, definitely take it.

They’re going to take everything very slow in China. It’s probably going to be a decade before China is meaningful to them.

[China] must maintain a close relationship with the United States if its modernization efforts are to succeed, … Indeed, a cooperative partnership with Washington is of primary importance to Beijing.

The China-US relationship is evolving into the most important bilateral relationship in the world.

This communal parenting brought me out of the privacy of our foreign enclave and into the public life of the community. Here, parenting was everyone’s responsibility; all adults were “aunties” and “uncles”.

Operating in the interstices of communist China society was at once exhilarating and uncertain. There were no rules. Or rather, there was only one rule: that nothing is allowed. But the corollary, which reveals the...

Every once in a while, I get the urge. You know what I’m talking about, don’t you? The urge for destruction. The urge to hurt, maim, kill. It’s quite a thing, to experience that urge,...

Never before has China been interested in playing this kind of role.

Only those who have tasted the bitterest of the bitter can become people who stand out among others. -Guanchang Xianxing Ji

I would tell young journalists to be brave and go against the tide. When everyone else is relying on the internet, you should not; when nobody’s walking, you should walk; when few people are reading...

Communism in a capitalist world requires eliminating the hope of the citizens for owning what others own.

I think it’s very clear that China is introducing a new exchange rate mechanism. It is not a one-time adjustment.

Peugeot, which used to be lukewarm in China, is gearing up now. Peugeot may record faster sales growth as its unique exterior designs are becoming more acceptable to Chinese consumers along with rising car penetration...

In large parts of China, especially in the countryside, over the last 20 or 30 years, the health system has been crumbling. You’ve got problems in terms of being able to provide basic health care...

Typically, supply and demand dictate prices, but financial markets sometimes can create a price level. In addition, today we compete with consumption on a world-wide basis. What happens in China, for example, can impact wire...

To China, it is so important to secure its crude supply.

… it is shameful that there are so few women in science… In China there are many, many women in physics. There is a misconception in America that women scientists are all dowdy spinsters. This...

The relationship between China and Bangladesh has registered all-round development in the three decades with both sides politically trusting each other and economically benefiting each other,

The demand shock from India and China could turn into a supply shock because the reserve situation is so tight. Plus the geopolitical risks.

China is innocent. China is ready to watch the investigation and to watch the possible results of that investigation,

The report will talk more about rural China and other conflicts within the economy, such as income redistribution, social security and medical reform.

This is going to be an issue, you know, it’s a longstanding issue that we’ve had with China.

I wouldn’t mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.

I was taken to a villa to meet Sabri al-Banna, known as ‘Abu Nidal’ (‘father of struggle’), who was at the time emerging as one of Yasser Arafat’s main enemies. The meeting began inauspiciously when...

It will definitely go past France, so for sure China is going to be the number five economy in the world.

China expresses regret at this. China is studying the consultation requests from the European Union and the United States seriously.

Tom Friedman says China is so awesome they make kosher pigs.

Workers were required to stay six months, and even then permission to quit was not always granted. The factory held the first two months of every worker’s pay; leaving without approval meant losing that money...

Because different cultures see a particular animal as representing a certain human virtue or vice, the use of animal imagery also allows for more colorful commentary on the human condition.

China is a positive and constructive force of safeguarding peace and promoting development … China’s development is not a threat but an opportunity.

Both China and the U.S. hope that bilateral relations can be stabilized and that a strategic dialogue can be set in motion,

Commodity-related funds remain in demand because the fundamentals remain the same — we have strong economic growth in Japan, the United States and China that is going to drive up demand, while spare refining capacity...

We believe we have a set of principles that ensure we comply with all of our legal obligations in China and other countries and ensure we are consistent with the broad principles that the Internet...

Meli ya kwanza kuondoka katika Bandari ya Salina Cruz kusini mwa Meksiko katika Bahari ya Pasifiki ni ‘La Diosa de los Mares’, ‘Mungu wa Bahari’, au ‘Goddess of the Seas’, Tani 6000, iliyoondoka saa tisa...

The Sun Tzu School Ping-fa Directive. Be strong and continually aware. Manage your strength and that of others. When essential, engage on your terms. Be observant, adaptive, and subtle. Do not lose control. Act decisively....

Living in China has made me appreciate my own country, with its tiny, ethnically diverse population of unassuming donut-eaters.

When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you’ve sat through several dozen films where a white man shouts, “You Chinese dog,” before getting his ass kicked, it...

I used to think the most important thing for a reporter was to be where the news is and be the first to know. Now I feel a reporter should be able to effect change....

Walking on water is easy if you know where to step.

The earth is black in front of the cliff, and no orchids grow.Creepers crawl in the brown mud by the path.Where did the birds of yesterday fly?To what other mountain did the animals go?Leopards and...

Don’t be tricked by the verisimilitude into forgetting this is fiction!

That was something that made China very upset indeed.