“We won’t rule out the possibility of canceling or adjusting the 787 orders, if there is a huge gap between the plane’s functionality or delivery date and our requirements,”

 China Southern’s Chief Financial Officer Xu Jiebo 

Bloomberg Businessweek 

“The numbers are falling faster than we thought,”

Celebrated hedge-fund manager and China-bear Jim Chanos of Kynikos Associates. 

Market Watch

“I couldn’t believe something so dark and evil could happen in my country, so I had to see for myself,”

Hu Xuming, a computer salesman, who was one of five strangers beaten up when they turned up in the village where blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng is being detained. 

New York Times

“The extreme difficulties he has encountered shake the foundation of justice in our society,” 

Economist Mao Yushi, on Chen Guangcheng's treatment 

New York Times

"The press just focuses more on the scandals of international companies[ ...] We know Chinese companies have the same problems. They just don't get reported."

Li Qun, a 27-year-old student shopping at a Wal-Mart store in Beijing

Wall Street Journal

“mission impossible”

Nouriel Roubini, chairman and co- founder of Roubini Global Economics LLC, on the prospect of a soft landing in China

Bloomberg

"Because of differences in ideology and values and the worship of Cold War thinking, there still exists bias, misunderstandings and doubts about China in international public opinion,"

Vice Propaganda Minister Wang Chen 

Associated Press

"A country that can only export television sets but not its ideas will never become a great power"

 People's Daily, quoted in a report from the Associated Press

"I'll make sure it costs you more for the car's repairs if you don't pay now. It might get keyed or hit,"

 Allgedly said by a fake parking attendant in Beijing's wealthy Sanlitun area

Global Times