Gao Xiqing, head of CIC, China’s sovereign wealth fund, responding to calls for greater transparency in his firm:
“Our government has never been transparent for 5,000 years. Now we are told we need to be transparent and we are trying … We are regular people.We do not have horns growing out of our head.”
Xinjiang Communist Party official Li Guangming, speaking ahead of the Olympic torch relay’s passage through the region:
“Considering that too many people will cause a lack of safety, we are recommending that everyone watches on the television from home.”
China historian Jonathan Spence, on Western nations’ response to the Sichuan earthquake:
“I think [the earthquake] forced people to realize that there is more going on in this country than just … political repression.”
Liao Min, of the China Banking Regulatory Commission, on deficiencies in Western economic models:
“In practice, they [the West] tend to overestimate the power of the market and overlook the regulatory role of the government and this warped conception is at the root of the subprime crisis.”
Sohu blogger Elvia Wu, on the link between the Olympic mascots and disasters afflicting China this year:
“One Fuwa has a kite on its head, representing [Shandong city] Weifang, and then something happened in Shandong; One Fuwa is a Tibetan antelope, and then something happened in Tibet; One Fuwa is a torch, and then something happened to the Olympic torch; One Fuwa is a panda, and then something happened in Sichuan; Now there’s still the fish left.”
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