#china

The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#china #currency #empire #hard #infusion

We've seen a massive attack on the freedom of the web. Governments are realizing the power of this medium to organize people and they are trying to clamp down across the world, not just in places like China and North Korea; we're seeing bills in the United States, in Italy, all across the world. ↗

— Sergey Brin

#attack #bills #china #down #freedom

There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China. ↗

— Iris Chang

#also #child-bearing #china #country #epidemic

Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society. ↗

— Jung Chang

#although #am #banned #been #book

I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China. ↗

— Jung Chang

#been #between #china #chinese #constant

One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye. ↗

— Leroy Chiao

#challenges #china #did #discern #eye

However, when my parents married in 1945, China was in turmoil and the possibility of returning grew increasingly remote, and they decided to begin their family in the United States. ↗

— Steven Chu

#china #decided #family #grew #however

America won the Cold War by protecting our strategic resources from the threat of foreign control. We must bring the same attitude to our trade relationship with China. ↗

— Jo Ann Emerson

#attitude #bring #china #cold #cold war

China is not only formidable, it is also aggressively building its own economic infrastructure. Just a few years from now, China will rival the U.S. and the European Union in global market power. It already has surpassed us in population. ↗

— Jo Ann Emerson

#already #also #building #china #economic

A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg. ↗

— Michael Foot

#commission #egg #hen #royal #sitting