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What a ruler has to rely upon is only the human heart. Human hearts are to the ruler what roots are to a tree, what oil is to a lamp, water to fish, fields to a farmer, or money to a merchant.

What happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change?

When it became clear that Xi Jinping was placing his bet on fortifying the status quo, another Party aristocrat, Hu Dehua, the sixty-three-year-old son of a previous Party chief, Hu Yaobang, used the protection afforded by his family name and pedigree to openly criticize the president. The real reason the Soviets fell, Hu Dehua argued, was that they couldnt stop themselves from appropriating public property by graft and bribery. The Party, Hu said, was indeed facing a crisis. There are two options: to suppress the opposition or to reach reconciliation with the people, he said. It had faced this choice once before, in 1989; and in an astonishing acknowledgment of the bloodshed at Tiananmen, he asked, What does this mean: man enough? Is driving battle tanks against your own people man enough?

When they passed a maintenance site in the road bed, Einstein stopped next to a worker who was smashing stones and silently observed this boy with torn clothes and dirty face and hands. He asked your father how much the boy earned each day. After asking the boy, he told Einstein: five cents.

When it comes to established environmental science, President Trump is like a bull in a china shop.

When Vasco da Gama breached the Indian Ocean, the playing field had just been vacated by the one force capable of repelling him.

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 starts to irritate you. We all need role models.

Where the Depression years had aroused a deep sense of concern over how American wealth was distributed and American society structured, the successive crises of the 1960s and early 1970s, by highlighting the contradiction between the destructive capability of American technology and the moral opaqueness of those Americans who had ultimate control over its use, raised questions about the very course of “modern” historical development. After Vietnam, there could be no more easy assumptions about the goodness of American power, no more easy equating of being “modern” with being “civilized.

You have the right to promote your own happiness just like everyone else, just like me. Your present dream has been shattered, but you can dream another. You should know that 'you can't relive old dreams.' Even if you force them to come true, they won't bring you happiness.

While the US was bogged down in Iraq, China continued to grow at a rapid pace, acquiring financial reserves and friends throughout the world as quickly as the United States was losing them.

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 and starting over somewhere else. That was a fact of factory life you couldn't know from the outside: Getting into a factory was easy. The hard part was getting out.

While browsing through the Seattle Art Museum in 1945, a scholar discovered a 5-inch jade seal, missing from China since the Boxer Rebellion, as a priceless Imperial seal. “My spectacles fell off my nose and I started to yell,” said Hugh Alexander Matier, 62-year-old scholar and traveler.

Within this historic and optimistic future in mind, I have made no value judgment of the destiny bestowed on each nation. For all this, however, leadership matters; so do the institutional structures and the system of political governance.

Ya Ru’s father had drowned in the big political tidal wave that Mao had set in motion.

90% of toys are made in china, which technically makes the chinese elves

You’re my prey tonight.

As long I still have a breath left in me I will dedicate myself fully to China’s reform.

After I came back [to China], there was still a long period of time when I felt I had nothing to do.

All foreign companies registered in China are Chinese enterprises. Their innovation, production and business operations in China enjoy the same treatment as Chinese enterprises.

All movies in China are censored. Out of 600 movies produced in China, only 60 are allowed to show in theatres.

Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade.

Brazil has no future as a China with fewer people.

Australia is very good friends with China, perhaps better friends than America is.

Audiences in mainland China know how to discuss movies.

Bubbles are best identified by credit excesses, not valuation excesses. And there's no bigger credit excess than in China.

Britain is China's best partner in the West.

China has established friendship with many African countries, and is opening itself up to Africa and providing assistance. It is cooperating with African countries on an equal basis and has no desire to colonize Africa.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.

China has a rich history that has spanned millennia. It consists of the histories of many nations and regions.

China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.

China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolationism of its own or anyone else.

China has set its cultural industries as pillar industries.

China is a long caravan, longer and stronger than the Wall.

China is a much richer country than any part of Europe.

China is crippling our manufacturing economy and eliminating our jobs by illegally flooding our markets.

China is doing lots of things right. It's investing in education and R&D, it's opening up, it's more cosmopolitan than it's ever been. I think it's very likely that China will continue to explode economically and certainly become a superpower.

China is on a march toward rule of law and democracy.

China is referred to as the 'dragon' and India as an 'elephant'. But we are not an elephant, we are a 'beehive'.

China is the most repressive censorship regime on the Internet.

China is very concerned about the Iranian nuclear issue.

China only did the biggest devaluation in 20 years, only for one reason. Because they could get away with it.

China produces 600 movies in a year, of which 3 or 4 go abroad, while of the several hundred they make, we only bring in 50. It's 50 now, but that could be expanded later on.

China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding.

China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right.

China, slavishly dedicated to ancient scholars, incapable of generating within herself sufficient rulers to continue, without bloodshed, a nation.

China's stock market is not very big. And yet when stock market has a bad day in China, it seems, Europe has a bad day and then we have a bad day.

China will be the answer to Japan's problems.

China can and will be an invaluable trading partner to both the U.S. and the U.K.

China has lunged into the 21st century, while India is still lurching toward it.