Notable China-related quotes from the last week:
Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau on why the US government imposed sanctions on LIMMT Economic and Trade Co and its manager, Lee Fangwei, after the company was named as a collaborator for transferring missile and nuclear technology to Iran:
“Materials may be dual-use, but when they are sent to front companies set up by the Iranian military, and the defendants use false end-user certificates and dummy names, there’s not much doubt that the use is for weapons.”
Louis Kuijs, senior economist with the World Bank on China’s prospects for growth:
“We are seeing these encouraging signs [in China] and we do think the stimulus policies will allow China to continue to see some growth in a very weak world economy.”
Peng Guangqian, a Beijing-based military expert on cross-Straits relations on how a Taiwan fishing vessel could have avoided being captured by Somali pirates:
“If the vessel had contacted mainland authorities before reaching the waters and received the [People’s Liberation Army] navy’s guidance, it would not have been seized by the pirates.”
Gao Hongfeng, the deputy head of the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China on why China’s airline industry might be in for a tough time ahead:
“We only have the capacity to train about 7,000, leaving us short 2,000 pilots. The shortage of pilots has become an important factor constraining civil aviation’s development.”
