#china

You know, without China there is no Wal-Mart and without Wal-Mart there is no middle class and lower class prosperity in the United States. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#class #know #lower #lower class #middle

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#backward #cannot #china #democracy #freedom

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#centuries #change #china #chinese #chinese government

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#authority #china #clear #communists #concerned

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#chinese #civilization #culture #history #i

Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#among #china #despite #elite #enormous

Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and enjoyment. They behaved accordingly, with a self-indulgence that was wholly rational, given their situation. ↗

— Eric Liu

#behaved #boomers #china #comfort #early

The explosive growth in places like Shanghai has helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and into a thriving new middle class. What China has done is nothing short of an economic transformation, and the citizens of this country have every right to be proud. ↗

— Gary Locke

#citizens #class #country #done #economic

China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day. ↗

— Gary Locke

#american #brands #china #class #contrast

In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#competitors #decade #dramatic #dynamic #emerged