“I don’t like Japan, but we need to know the disparity. Japan’s territory is 1/25 of China’s, but the GDP/productivity of one Japanese person is equivalent to that of 33 of our countrymen. Japan’s illiteracy rate is zero, while the percentage of those who receive elementary and middle school education is 100%, and 48% of their total population have college educations. Japan has 12 Nobel Prize winners, while China’s education system is comparable to 1920s Japan. Forests cover 12% of China, 67% of Japan, and yet China exports massive amounts of wood to Japan.” - Popular Sina Weibo post by @趣味儿经济学 (April 2012)
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“There are some bored foreigners, with full stomachs, who have nothing better to do than point fingers at us [China]. First, China doesn’t export revolution; second, China doesn’t export hunger and poverty; third, China doesn’t come and cause you headaches, what more is there to be said?” - First Secretary of Secretariat of the Communist Party, Xi Jinping
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“Change in today’s China is rarely bottom-up and sweeping in nature. If there’s going to be change, for now it’s going be incremental and it will come from the top down.” – Fareed Zakaria
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“Let China sleep, for when she awakes, she will shake the world.” -Napoleon
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“China is a civilization pretending to be a nation” - Michael Ledeen
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“A military without a world view is one without a hope” – Liberation Army Daily
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“If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.” - Singapore’s Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew evoking the ghost of Deng Xiaoping whilst endorsing the Tiananmen Square massacre, Straits Times, Aug 17, 2004
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“It doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.” – Deng Xiaoping
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“A man has no future if he does not read books, nor does a nation.” Wen Jiabao, 2010
“Only when the masses are reassured, can the country be at peace. Only when the country is at peace, can the leaders be relieved.”Wen Jiabao, 2008
“If the head of a school is changing every two or three years, that school could never be excellent.” Wen Jiabao
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“You only have to put a few students from Peking or Qinghua University in classrooms to deter local students from dozing off or snacking,” Taiwan’s Commonwealth magazine publisher Kao Hsi-chun, 2010
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“To speak Chinese is not to know China.” Australia’s ambassador in Beijing, Dr Geoff Raby, 2011
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“China does not pose a military threat. In fact, of all the major powers, China has probably been the most restrained in building up its military forces. China poses a very serious threat because it cannot be intimidated [by the US].” Noam Chomsky, 2007
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and something not so famous…
“China is as wide as its peripheries. Few can represent the thoughts and feelings of 1.4 billion people of 56 ethnicities fairly in one statement.” Bob Tan
There are 2 forces in this universe…one of light, one of darkness and the infinite variations of yin and yang. The Jews, the chosen people, have brought chaos and misery to every country that they have inhabited through out history are the champion of one force. China, the only civilization in existence and with no imperialist history is the champion of the other!
http://behindthewall.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/10/17/8368104-tot-2-run-over-twice-and-no-one-helps
What about …… The Great Leap forward??????? No imperialist history????? You’re a food.
Fool!!!!
india also has a record alongside china for once holding the largest economy in the word and yet they have never attacked another nation with the intent to colonise it
Or “useful Idiot.”
Everything in its time my friend!
americans voicing opinions on china are as ridiculous as a flea trying to tell an elephant how to go about its business -