“Does the US want to raise China’s nuclear force to its own level or reduce theirs to that of China’s?”
Lu Kang, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman, responding to US Deputy Secretary of State Andrea Thompson’s comment that the US should consider having China join the US-Russia arms control agreements.
text“China-US trade is completely the result of market selection. It’s entirely groundless to say that ‘China has profited at the US’s expense.’ ... American businesspeople are experienced enough. They won’t make bad deals.”
Jin Canrong, an international relations professor at the Renmin University of China, on Sino-US trade conflict during an interview with China Central Television.
“During a five-minute talk with the government, many enterprises spend the first three minutes bragging and the last two kissing ass.”
Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba, calling for more honesty from enterprises so officials can understand their true situations and make timely policy adjustments, at the 2019 Annual Summit of China Green Companies held in April.
“The Chinese government possesses the world’s largest amount of assets. Besides State-owned enterprises, they also own natural resources and land, which is not the case in developed countries. It means that the Chinese government has a higher debt capacity.”
Li Xunlei, vice-chairman of China Chief Economist Forum, on why China will remain safe even if the government’s deficit rate exceeds the World Bank’s warning line of 3 percent of the country’s GDP.
“The biggest highlight of the Politburo meeting… was that it for the first time mentioned ‘institutional’ elements regarding the economic downturn. This is of great significance, as the Politburo is recognizing that many of our current systems are obsolete and we need thorough institutional reform like that of the 1990s.”
Zhu Zhenxin, executive president of the Reality Institute of Advanced Finance, speaking about the Politburo meeting on April 19, which analyzed China’s economic situation and laid out plans for future economic work.
“Thank you students for your constant complaining about the cafeteria. It really helped improve the quality of the faculty’s food... and thank you being so low key about your dating to protect the self-esteem of all the single teachers.”
Yu Bing, a teacher at First Middle School in Tai’an, Shandong Province, whose speech at a traditional ceremony for students turning 18 went viral.
“If we cut off our ties to Chinese culture, later generations in Taiwan will become as rootless as floating duckweed.” Han Kuo-yu, mayor of Kaohsiung, Taiwan to Taiwanese media on why he emphasizes “cultural identity.”
“The US will be neither safer nor stronger by restricting Huawei. The restriction will only drive the US to use poorer-quality but more expensive substitutes and lag behind in its 5G network construction, which will finally impair the interests of American enterprises and consumers.” Huawei publicly responding to US President Donald Trump’s ban on telecommunications equipment supplied by foreign enterprises that are claimed to threaten US national security, a move many believe specifically targets Huawei.