#taiwan

And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#average #average american #could #difficult #important

The mainland Chinese tend to take a Chinese mainland point of view on controversial issues, and the Taiwanese take another the Taiwanese viewpoint. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#chinese #controversial #issues #mainland #point

We will never allow anybody to separate Taiwan from China. ↗

— Hu Jintao

#anybody #china #never #separate #taiwan

Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#authoritarian #beacon #cannot #china #democracy

Belize pledges it continued support to the aspirations of the 23 million people of Taiwan to be full participants in all organs and agencies of the international community. ↗

— Said Musa

#aspirations #community #continued #full #international

However, I must say that I am very happy to see that we have such a positive result for our first referendum in our history and that gives me more confidence in Taiwan's democracy. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

#confidence #democracy #first #gives #happy

I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

#democracy #great #i #taiwan

Taiwan is a major economy. ↗

— William Kirby

#major #taiwan

Even if I were knocked down by one gunshot it wouldn't affect our democracy and I wasn't knocked down and I have great confidence in our democracy and in Taiwan and in the people of Taiwan. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

#confidence #democracy #down #even #great

Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#another #around #china #chinese #country