Notable China-related quotes from the last week:
Zhou Yuehua, from Guangdong Medicines and Health Products Import and Export Corp, on the popularity of his company’s face masks with international buyers:
“The price of masks has doubled or even trebled. It is beyond our expectations.”
Roseann Rife, deputy program director of Amnesty International Asia-Pacific on the detention of parents of children killed in the Sichuan earthquake, who wanted to complain to higher officials about the construction quality of collapsed buildings:
“By unlawfully locking up parents of children who died, the government is creating more misery for people who have said in some cases they lost everything in the Sichuan earthquake. The government of China must cease harassing earthquake survivors who are seeking answers and trying to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives.”
Patrice Cousineau, head of public affairs for the Canadian Embassy in Beijing questioning why Beijing would quarantine Canadian students after their arrival in China:
“Why were the students placed in quarantine when there are no symptoms?”
Wang Qishan, vice premier of the State Council, writing in the New York Times on how to improve China-EU ties:
“We should strengthen dialogue and consultation, refrain from taking protectionist measures and avoid politicizing trade issues. China hopes that the EU will evaluate the conditions of the Chinese economy in an objective and unprejudiced manner and recognize China’s full market economy status as soon as possible.”