"Genius comes from hard work - tobacco helps you become talented’”

Slogan on the gates of rural schools that are sponsored by the government-owned cigarette maker.

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“People say Chinese don’t spend, that they save, that’s not really true. They do spend. It’s just that they have very little to spend.”

Peking University’s Mr. Pettis quotes in the New York Times

“This will help ensure Taiwan maintains the ability to defend its air space in both peace time and in any crisis”

Kurt Campbell, the United States' top diplomat for East Asia, answering a question from a China Daily reporter his country $5.9 billion arms sale to Taiwan  

“The fundamental imbalance between our openness and China’s restrictiveness...”

 Karel de Gucht, Europe Union Trade Commissioner, told a business conference in Brussels attended by the Financial Times.

“China is very disappointed”

China’s Commerce ministry spokesman Shen Danyang on the European Union’s refusal to give China the trade status of a full market economy. Quoted by the Associated Press.