“I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.” IfsHappenedBloodEventsChinaTragicPlagueDecorationTragic Events Author:Fernando Pessoa
“Time in China has no immediacy as in America. Here I find the swift passage of our few earthly years accepted as naturally as the fall of flower and leaf. ... I hear and speak a language in which grammar has no tense. Both scholars and illiterates, in ordinary daily speech, tell an event of centuries ago as casually as an incident of the hour. Only as my knowledge has accumulated have I been able to know whether something related happened just then or in some past dynasty.” KnowsYearsAbleAmericaPastTimeFallSpeakLanguageHoursHappenedCenturyEventsFlowerSpeechOrdinaryChinaAcceptedRelatedPassagesScholarLeafsGrammarIncidentsTenseDynastyImmediacy Author:Nora Waln
“The greatest historical events in the twentieth century - in fact, in all of human history - have been the overthrow of capitalism and establishment of societies run by and for the working class in the two great communist revolutions in Russia and China.” HumansHas BeensTwoFactsRunningClassCenturyEventsRevolutionCapitalismHistoricalChinaRussiaCommunistEstablishmentWorking ClassHuman HistoryTwentieth CenturyHistorical Events Author:Grover Furr
“If our goal in legislating against carbon releases is not simply punishing the West and its power companies but truly trying to reduce the accumulation of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, the main event will be in the developing world. We must use the smartest possible economics, and that means investing in China and India.” IfsWorldTryingMeanUseGoalCompanyEventsEconomicsIndiaWestInvestingChinaReleaseDevelopingAtmosphereCarbonAccumulationGreenhousesChina And India Author:Gregg Easterbrook
“I only started to understand the concept of "environmental protection" 14 years ago. I was an ambassador for a charity event, and the staff told me that the consumption of disposable chopsticks in China, per year, could result in the devastation of unimaginable acres of forest.” YearsResultsEventsConceptsYears AgoCharityEnvironmentalChinaProtectionForestsConsumptionStaffAmbassadorsUnimaginableAcresEnvironmental ProtectionDevastationDisposableChopsticks Author:Li Bingbing
“Over the longer term, China will grow by about 6% or 7% per year. The Chinese authorities usually react pretty quickly to unfolding economic events, and you've seen them recently change a whole bunch of policies to be more conducive to growth. They have the power and capability to macromanage the economy - to accomplish their growth objectives - which means they're pretty much going to come close to what they say is going to happen.” YearsMeanWholeHappensGrowsGrowthTermEconomyEconomicEventsPolicyAuthorityChinaAccomplishBunchObjectivesChineseCapabilityUnfolding Author:Jamie Dimon