China international profile

Gautam Chikermane

Inserted 2 years ago

“Under the Chairman of Everything in China, Xi Jinping, the country has told the world that it has economic power and will weaponise it to smother everything, from using democracy and its institutional fractures to rewriting maps for conquest to extending its surveillance state architecture to the rest of the world. It is time for the EU to end its extramarital affairs with authoritarianism, and grandstanding and war-mongering screeches. That China is a threat to democracies, in general, and the EU, in particular, is visible to all but the EU. Other than geography, the essence of the EU is values. And one event after another, one country at a time, the EU is giving them up.”

Orfonline

Vice President at Observer Research Foundation

22 Nov 2021 5 2

Xi Jinping

Inserted 2 years ago

“We must be the constructors and protectors of regional peace, insist on dialogue instead of confrontation, partnership and nonalignment, and join hands in dealing with various negative factors that threaten to undermine peace. We must practice true multilateralism and insist on handling international and regional matters through negotiation.”

Aljazeera

President of the People's Republic of China

22 Nov 2021 7 1

Henry Kissinger

Inserted 2 years ago

“I don't expect an all-out attack on Taiwan in, say, a 10-year period, which is as far as I can see. We should have a principal goal of avoiding confrontation. It is foreseeable that China will take measures that will weaken the Taiwanese ability to appear substantially autonomous.”

Taipeitimes

American politician, diplomat, and geopolitical consultant who served as United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor under the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford

21 Nov 2021 1 3

Xi Jinping

Inserted 2 years ago

“The Asia-Pacific region cannot and should not relapse into the confrontation and division of the Cold War era.”

Aljazeera

President of the People's Republic of China

10 Nov 2021 4 2

Yin Dongyu

Inserted 2 years ago

“Many countries in the region have seen China as a threat, and the US is also in that group, so with the growing Chinese military strength, other countries, with the help from the US both explicitly and secretively, are trying to catch up. With China's more assertive attitude towards its territorial claims, I don't see this arms race to end anytime soon.”

Aljazeera

Beijing-based analyst on the Chinese military

29 Oct 2021 3 3

Joseph Wu

Inserted 2 years ago

“Whenever Taiwan is gaining something, or having a new friendship, or being able to do something on the international stage, the Chinese would think that they are losing and they want to cut back on Taiwan's international participation. So, in that sense, it's a very direct competition between Taiwan and China on the international stage. What China wants to do is to make sure that Taiwan is dangling out in the international community alone - no friends, no support. But, of course, as minister of foreign affairs my responsibility is to make sure that Taiwan has friends out there.”

Rferl

Taiwan’s foreign minister

27 Oct 2021 1 7

Peter Jennings

Inserted 2 years ago

“It's clear Beijing won't give up its aspiration for unification with Taiwan, but if Xi [Xi Jinping] realises the costs of such military folly will be too high, the hope is he will leave that to future generations. Deterrence secures the peace, whereas appeasement will surely lead to war.”

Aspistrategist

Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s executive director and a former deputy secretary for strategy in the Department of Defence

18 Oct 2021 2 5

Peter Jennings

Inserted 2 years ago

“Internationally, Xi [Xi Jinping] has been a successful risk-taker. He staged a takeover of the South China Sea and militarised reclaimed 'island' bases with no effective international response; he has prosecuted wholesale cyber intellectual property theft around the world with, until recently, most countries reluctant to even name China as the cause; he trashed Beijing's agreement with the UK over Hong Kong and is rolling out repressive rule over its 7.5 million people. The world responded with empty hand-wringing.”

Aspistrategist

Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s executive director and a former deputy secretary for strategy in the Department of Defence

18 Oct 2021 6 7

Herbert Raymond McMaster

Inserted 2 years ago

“China will keep turning up the heat with provocations in the region, especially next year since Xi [Xi Jinping] will likely continue as chairman for an unprecedented third term. It is a very dangerous time. I think it is probably not the most dangerous time yet. I do think that 2022, as many people have pointed out, is a critical period.”

Taiwannews

Former United States National Security Advisor (2017 to 2018)

04 Oct 2021 2 7

Lim Tai Wei

Inserted 2 years ago

“(Xi Jinping) wants to prove his leadership in almost every sphere of China, whether it's international relations, domestic affairs, corruption issues, cultural issues, which is new, and so, therefore, you see all the sort of movements happening almost simultaneously, possibly in preparation for next year's big events.”

Aljazeera

Senior research fellow at the National University of Singapore

30 Sep 2021 5 3

Brad Parks

Inserted 2 years ago

“Many poor governments could not take on any more loans. So [China] got creative. Loans were given to a constellation of actors other than central governments, but often backed by a government guarantee to pay up if the other party could not. The contracts are murky and governments themselves don't know the exact monetary values they owe to China. What we're seeing right now with the Belt and Road Initiative is buyers' remorse. Many foreign leaders who were initially eager to jump on the Belt and Road Initiative bandwagon are now suspending or canceling Chinese infrastructure projects because of debt sustainability concerns.”

Taipeitimes

AidData executive director

29 Sep 2021 3 6

Bonny Lin

Inserted 2 years ago

“China is responding to the Quad in its own way, using a cold war mentality, viewing Quad as very much geared toward confrontation with China, and as a result actually moving in a direction that's not productive.”

Theguardian

Director, China Power Project and Senior Fellow, Asian Security

24 Sep 2021 2 3

Simon Jenkins

Inserted 2 years ago

“With its newly powerful status, China has embraced military aggrandisement, sensitivity to criticism and a regional sphere of influence, all syndromes that should be familiar to the US. Time alone will tell where this leads. But for the west now to open a cold war with China must be beyond stupid, and for Britain especially fatuous.”

Theguardian

Guardian columnist

21 Sep 2021 5 6

Meia Nouwens

Inserted 2 years ago

“If China is seen as the only country to offer assistance, then this can become another opportunity for China to leverage its south-south narrative and point out that only Beijing has other countries' interests and wellbeing at heart. At a time when the west is trying to push back on China's narrative and improve partnerships with countries to offer alternatives to the belt and road initiative or digital infrastructure, the west should signal that it doesn't only speak about partnerships, but it matches words with actions.”

Theguardian

Senior fellow for Chinese defence policy and military modernisation at the London-based thinktank International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

21 Sep 2021 2 3

Xi Jinping

Inserted 2 years ago

“We must never allow any external interference in the domestic affairs of countries in our region under whatever pretext. In short, we should keep the future of our countries' development and progress firmly in our own hands.”

Chinadaily

President of the People's Republic of China

17 Sep 2021 3 2

Nicolas Chapuis

Inserted 2 years ago

“We may be mistaken, but we think in Europe today, everybody - government, public opinion, academics - are today convinced that China is changing, and you are telling us today that it is not the case. That is a perception issue that we need to tackle .... you are all entitled to your views but please do understand that in Europe people are convinced that China is changing its diplomacy. I am very sorry to see that China does not give any credit to the EU in bringing the U.S. back to the path of engagement. Why? Because China has decided to not reset the relationship with the U.S. The Anchorage meeting in March 2021 is for me, a very significant signal and very disappointing ... The government rejected the return to engagement. So what does China want? What is the objective, the purpose of China today in foreign relations? It's clearly not the same purpose as 10 years ago, it is different. We are sometimes at a loss to understand exactly what China wants.”

Koreatimes

EU's ambassador to China

08 Sep 2021 4 5

Clive Hamilton

Inserted 2 years ago

“Beijing uses economic coercion quite ruthlessly. Initially, the trade bans caused great consternation. But the government in Canberra made it very clear that Australia would not compromise or sacrifice its fundamental principles and would protect our democratic system from China's interference. Despite the economic pain in some sectors, China's economic bullying also helped the Australian government and public to harden their attitude toward the country, and businesses to find new markets. If we back down we will never get our independence back. It is important to continue to develop closer relations with other countries that want to protect their sovereignty from China's influence, interference, bullying and economic blackmail. Countries must ask themselves whether they are willing to pay a price in order to retain their national sovereignty and the democratic rights citizens enjoy. With an aggressive, authoritarian China threatening these, people must decide - money or freedom.”

Koreatimes

Professor of public ethics at Charles Sturt University in Canberra and author of the book 'Silent Invasion'

08 Sep 2021 3 4

Tony Abbott

Inserted 2 years ago

“The basic problem is that China's daunting power is a consequence of the free world's decision to invite a communist dictatorship into global trading networks. China has exploited the West's goodwill and wishful thinking to steal our technology and undercut our industries; and, in the process, become a much more powerful competitor than the old Soviet Union ever was, because it's now a first-rate economy that's rapidly developing a military to match; and spoiling for a fight over Taiwan, a pluralist democracy of 25 million that's living proof there's no totalitarian gene in the Chinese DNA.”

Taipeitimes

Former Australian prime minister and adviser to the British government's Board of Trade

09 Aug 2021 2 3

Rahul Mishra

Inserted 2 years ago

“Japan's more than 500-page white paper is another reminder of the grim strategic reality of the region. It highlights, yet again, that if major stakeholders in the Indo-Pacific region are interested in making the area robust and stronger, they have to work in tandem. This is crucial when the US-China rivalry is only becoming more bitter and intense, with Beijing showing no sign of willingness to improve ties with regional stakeholders. The failed US-China talks in Alaska in March and in Tianjin last month clearly demonstrate that. They also signal that major Asian powers, such as Japan and India, have to devise their own policies and play a more proactive role in the region.”

Taipeitimes

Senior lecturer at the University of Malaya’s Asia-Europe Institute in Kuala Lumpur

04 Aug 2021 6 8

Xi Jinping

Inserted 2 years ago

“On the path of completely building a modern socialist country and realizing the second centennial goal, national defense and the military must be placed in a more important position, and the consolidation of national defense and a strong military must be accelerated. We must persist in strengthening the overall planning of war and make preparations for military struggle.”

Taipeitimes

President of the People's Republic of China

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“I don't expect an all-out attack on Taiwan in, say, a 10-year period, which is as far as I can see. We should have a principal goal of avoiding confrontation. It is foreseeable that China will take measures that will weaken the Taiwanese ability to appear substantially autonomous.”

“The Asia-Pacific region cannot and should not relapse into the confrontation and division of the Cold War era.”

“It's clear Beijing won't give up its aspiration for unification with Taiwan, but if Xi [Xi Jinping] realises the costs of such military folly will be too high, the hope is he will leave that to future generations. Deterrence secures the peace, whereas appeasement will surely lead to war.”

“China is responding to the Quad in its own way, using a cold war mentality, viewing Quad as very much geared toward confrontation with China, and as a result actually moving in a direction that's not productive.”

“We must never allow any external interference in the domestic affairs of countries in our region under whatever pretext. In short, we should keep the future of our countries' development and progress firmly in our own hands.”

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