"But if the Chinese mainland, the PRC, attacked Taiwan, we'd be obligated to come to their aid."
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"The humour of the Chinese people in inventing gunpowder and finding its best use in making firecrackers for their grandfathers' birthdays is merely symbolical of their inventiveness along merely pacific lines."
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"I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many copies have gone into China but it is still banned."
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"Elijah Muhammad teaches us the truth of God beautified the planet by separating everybody in different countries for themselves: Chinese in China, English in England, Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico, Ethiopians in Ethiopia, Arabians in Arabia, Egyptians in Egypt, and Americans took that country and stole it away so there's always going to be trouble and chaos."
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"We have always been a nation different from the Chinese. Long ago we fought wars with them."
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"Every empire suffers from hubris, arrogance and condescension, and therefore a moral blindness. That's true of the American empire, it was true of the British Empireearlier, and it will certainly be true of the Chinese Empire in the future."
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"Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods."
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"One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected?"
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"It is conceivable that I might well be reborn as a Chinese coolie. In such case I should lodge a protest."
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"Without going outside, you may know the whole world!"
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"England understands good Chinese, Japanese and Indian cuisine; in France, we just get French."
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"The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and the Chinese have never excelled in foreign commerce."
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"Anton brings the camera. I'll bring a tuba, wear black, not shave, and take us to a burned-down Chinese restaurant. (On being photographed by his longtime photo collaborator Anton Corbijn)"
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"When this government [Chiang Kaishek's] finally fell there was no one ready to teach the Chinese the human way of life."
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"As history stands, it is a sort of Chinese play, without end andl without lesson. With these impressions I wrote the last line of my History, asking for a round century before going further."
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"I like to say, Chop sueys the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another, because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means tsap sui, which, if you translate back, means odds and ends."
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"Chinese people themselves, they really want change."
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"As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use."
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"The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism."
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"In 1924 Mao took a Chinese friend, newly arrived from Europe, to see the notorious sign in the Shanghai park, 'Chinese and Dogs Not Allowed'."
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