There have been 50 or 60 books written about Empress Orchid, but none of them bothered to really examine the period in China when she lived. I was taught that she was evil; it's in all the textbooks.
Since the first Gulf War in 1991, the Chinese have been increasing their military budget roughly by 11 percent a year on average. There's no way that China will be able to sustain that sort of military expenditure. And then the most important reason is because of its population changes.
The Chinese are quite entrepreneurial. Remember when Lenovo bought IBM's PC division. It was said that China didn't need a brand name, China didn't need to buy Lenovo to get into the PC business, I remember reading a one-liner somewhere which struck me as quite possibly true, it said the one thing that the Chinese had not been able to copy or figure out was the way, in terms of systems, that Americans - it probably would be true for Europeans as well - that Americans install and live by their management systems, while China is still quite half-assed. Perhaps that is a true statement.
China, slavishly dedicated to ancient scholars, incapable of generating within herself sufficient rulers to continue, without bloodshed, a nation.
China is a keen observer of trends elsewhere in the world, and it's going to give our own innovators a run for their money.
ISIS is the near-term threat, and that the longer - or the mid-term challenge is managing the rise of China. There's some evidence that that's the thinking of the [Donald Trump] administration. That's a perfectly reasonable approach. Well, if that's the case, then you surely want to have a united West to deal with both, and you want to have Russia alongside, but maybe not this Russia while it's busy trying to undermine your chief asset, which is a united West.
Cutting our education budget, that's not a smart choice. That will not help America compete with China.
China will continue to support the efforts of the Palestinian people to regain their legitimate rights, including the establishment of an independent state.
He will not let you come barging in to his world like the proverbial bull in the china shop.
Right after 'Desperate' sold to China, we were the most watched show around the world at the time. That's really something great to be a part of.
Democracy in China is maybe like a democracy that is separated, distributed. But in the West, maybe it's something you go to the supermarket to buy.
I think they will never really enjoy true democracy in China.
The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.
We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.
With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China.
China is a civilization pretending to be a nation.
Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.
China is an attractive piece of meat coveted by all. . . but very tough, and for years no one has been able to bite into it.
Seeing the Olympics come to China made me want to get more involved.
Are our competitors - for example, China, which is a deeply authoritarian nation - becoming more authoritarian or more liberal over time?