Taiwan Quotes - Page 3

• [We should] set our eyes on the future. The political differences between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan should eventually be solved step by step, and [we] can not let these problems hand on from generation to generation.

  Xi Jinping

  Eye, Hands, Differences

  "Xi Calls for Peaceful Development of Cross-straits Ties". www.chinadaily.com.cn. October 06, 2013.

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• The defining issue is that the government in Taiwan was considered to be the government of all of China, and the authorities in Beijing were not recognized as a government of China. So Taiwan was the residuary for all of China.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Government, Issues, Defining

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Britain cannot compete with China or Taiwan on price; we compete on skills, on arts and culture.

  Sadiq Khan

  Art, Skills, Culture

  Source: www.alastaircampbell.org

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• More and more of the Taiwanese economy is connected with the mainland. There are more and more exchanges taking place. There's no reason to doubt that over a period of ten years or so, or maybe more, the conditions of life on the two sides of the Taiwan Strait will become more comparable, and the dialogue on the political level therefore easier.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Years, Two Sides, Political

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Taiwan will probably not declare independence. The question isn't independence. The issue is whether Taiwan will declare itself as a sovereign separate state. That will start a huge crisis if that happens.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Issues, Independence, Sovereign

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Chinese military budget today is officially listed as, I think, about $15 billion. But even if you double it, that's only a tenth of ours. So the possibility of China challenging the United States for the next ten years over the Pacific is next to zero. There could be a conflict between us and China over Taiwan, but I think that, too, will not occur with the proper policies on both sides.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Zero, Military, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• What China would do, I cannot predict. China has all but given up the claim to the use of force, except in the circumstance of Taiwan declaring its independence. That is a huge step forward over what the situation was many years ago.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Years, Independence, Use

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think from the business point of view, Taiwan and China tied together brings mutual benefit. And we don't see any reason for stopping that progress, unless they have a political reason.

  Stan Shih

  Thinking, Mutual Benefit, Views

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• The first time I went to Taiwan, there were cameras, paparazzi, TV stations outside my hotel twenty-four hours a day nonstop.

  Jeremy Lin

  Cameras, Twenties, Four

  "Rocket Man" by Will Leitch, www.gq.com. October 16, 2012.

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• I love my family, I love my relatives. One special request I have is for the media back in Taiwan to kind of give them their space because they can't even go to work without being bombarded and people following them.

  Jeremy Lin

  Media, Bombarded By, Space

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• Such an arrangement would provide Taiwan and China with a forum for dialogue whereby they may forge closer ties based on mutual understanding and respect, leading to permanent peace in the Taiwan Strait.

  Nick Lampson

  Ties, Understanding, May

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• Mr. Speaker, in seeking to return to the United Nations, the Republic of China on Taiwan will once again ask diplomatic allies to present its case before the United Nations this fall.

  Nick Lampson

  Fall, Allies, Republic

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• You know golf is very lonely. When I'm in the States, I feel like if I just think about Taiwan, my friends, my fans, I won't feel like I'm alone.

  Yani Tseng

  Lonely, Golf, Thinking

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• The most revolutionary aspect of technology is its mobility. Anybody can learn it. It jumps easily over barriers of race and language. ... The new technology of microchips and computer software is learned much faster than the old technology of coal and iron. It took three generations of misery for the older industrial countries to master the technology of coal and iron. The new industrial countries of East Asia, South Korea, and Singapore and Taiwan, mastered the new technology and made the jump from poverty to wealth in a single generation.

  Freeman Dyson

  Country, Science, Technology

  "Infinite in All Directions: Gifford lectures given at Aberdeen" by Freeman Dyson, (p. 270), 2004.

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• Our policy for the last many years has been to deter the Chinese government in Beijing from ever coming into the position where they thought they had enough leverage over the U.S. to cross the Straits of Taiwan.

  Bob Filner

  Government, Years, Chinese

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• And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC

  Fred Thompson

  Average, Important, Littles

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• I just want people to respect the privacy of my relatives in Taiwan. ... They need to live their lives as well.

  Jeremy Lin

  People, Needs, Want

  "Lin seeks privacy for Taiwan relatives" by Elizabeth Yuan, www.cnn.com. February 20, 2012.

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• Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have for other people.

  Diane Johnson

  Travel, Thinking, Islands

  Diane Johnson (1993). “Natural opium: some travelers' tales”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Confidence, Democracy, Prejudice

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• However, I must say that I am very happy to see that we have such a positive result for our first referendum in our history and that gives me more confidence in Taiwan's democracy.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Confidence, Giving, Democracy

  BBC Intreview, news.bbc.co.uk. March 30, 2004.

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• I also combined the R&B feel with the pop music of Taiwan... I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.

  Coco Lee

  Listening, Sound, Flavor

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• We will never allow anybody to separate Taiwan from China.

  Hu Jintao

  Separation, China

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• Some non-communist parties and CPPCC members have, at CPPCC meetings or in their proposals, called for the enactment of a law against secession at the earliest date, to resolutely fight and curb 'Taiwan independence' activities in any forms.

  Jia Qinglin

  Party, Fighting, Law

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• Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia.

  Thomas Friedman

  Running, Korea, Ties

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• I was so happy when I found out I had been drafted by the Yankees. Growing up in Taiwan, I had heard so much about the Yankees but had never even seen them on TV.

  Chien-Ming Wang

  Growing Up, Yankees, Tvs

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