“Please be self-dignified to avoid perverts.”-Shanghai Metro’s Weibo microblog advises female subway riders on wardrobe selection
“We should oppose the practices of the big bullying the small, the strong domineering over the weak and the rich oppressing the poor.”-President Hu Jintao on the West’s influence in Africa
“Get off the sidelines.”-US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on China and Russia’s inaction on Syria
“In my brief existence, a once-in-a-century solar eclipse has happened twice, a once-in-500-year flood has happened ten times, and a once-in-a-millennium earthquake has happened twice. The only thing that hasn’t happened is the once-every-five-year general election.”-An anonymous Weibo microblog user after the Beijing floods
“I think they should take all the uniforms, put them in a big pile and burn them and start all over again.”-US Senate majority leader Harry Reid on the US Olympic team’s made-in-China uniforms
“If there is anything that should be burned, it should really be the hypocrisy of the US politics”
–A Xinhua editorial on Reid’s remarks
“The Western media has always been arrogant and suspicious of Chinese people.”-2012 Olympic gold medalist Ye Shiwen’s father on allegations of doping
“China practices law in a different way than America; we don’t play with words. We have a principle called “based on the facts.” You will be arrested, sentenced and executed as long as we know you killed someone.”
-Gu Kailai, in her 1998 book on the US legal system
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