China

Managing director of risk analysis company Teneo

30 Aug 2022 1 4

Xiao Qian

Inserted 1 year ago

“It's an issue of reunification, complete reunification, and … of Taiwan coming back to the motherland. Use of force was the last thing China wanted, as it was waiting for a peaceful reunification. But we cannot, we can never rule out the option to use other means, so when necessary, when compelled, we are ready to use all necessary means. As to what does it mean, 'all necessary means'? You can use your imagination, but … [the] Chinese people are absolutely determined to protect our sovereignty, territorial integrity, we will never allow Taiwan to be separated from China.”

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China’s ambassador to Australia

10 Aug 2022 2 3

Wang Wenbin

Inserted 1 year ago

“[We] are only issuing a warning to the perpetrators. China would firmly smash the Taiwan authorities' illusion of gaining independence through the US. We urge the US to do some earnest reflection, and immediately correct its mistakes.”

Spokesperson of China and deputy director of the Foreign Ministry Information Department of China

09 Aug 2022 3 1

Wang Jiangyu

Inserted 1 year ago

“China will use this incident to strengthen its sovereignty claim over Taiwan. For instance, sending squadrons of military aircraft to enter the 'airspace' of Taiwan, or sending military vessels to enter the 'water areas' controlled by the Taiwan military.”

Professor of law at the City University in Hong Kong

03 Aug 2022 3 2

Xiang Lu

Inserted 1 year ago

“Based on the released information about the PLA drills from August 4 to 7, the six locations have already encircled the island of Taiwan from all directions, and it could be a series of unprecedented military exercises aimed at realizing reunification by force and also to fight against the external forces that could interrupt the reunification process.”

Specialist on US affairs at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

03 Aug 2022 5 3

Xie Feng

Inserted 1 year ago

“The nature of Pelosi's visit is extremely vicious and the consequence is very grave. The Chinese side will not sit idly by.”

China’s Vice Foreign Minister

03 Aug 2022 4 3

Xiang Lu

Inserted 1 year ago

“China won't allow another case like 'Pelosi's visit' to happen again, which means we won't let this visit to set a bad example for more countries such as the UK, France and Germany to follow suit, further hollowing out our sovereignty over Taiwan.”

Specialist on US affairs at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

02 Aug 2022 3 3

Lijian Zhao

Inserted 1 year ago

“We are fully prepared for any eventuality. The People's Liberation Army [PLA] will never sit by idly. China will take strong and resolute measures to safeguard its sovereignty and territorial integrity.”

Spokesman for the Chinese foreign ministry

01 Aug 2022 4 3

Shen Jinke

Inserted 1 year ago

“The air force has many types of fighter jets capable of circling the precious island of our motherland [Taiwan]. China's air force has the firm will, full confidence and sufficient capability to defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity.”

Chinese air force spokesman

31 Jul 2022 5 1

Toru Nishihama

Inserted 1 year ago

“China's economy has stood on the edge of falling into stagflation, although the worst is over as of the May-June period. You can rule out the possibility of a recession, or two straight quarters of contraction. Given the tame growth, China's government is likely to deploy economic stimulus measures from now on to rev up its flagging growth, but hurdles are high for PBOC to cut interest rates further as it would fan inflation which has been kept relatively low at present.”

Chief economist at Dai-ichi Life Research Institute in Tokyo

15 Jul 2022 4 1

Wu Qiang_

Inserted 1 year ago

“Often, the heads of different departments and companies attend one meeting in the morning about enhancing dynamic zero, and then in the afternoon a meeting about economic growth. The tensions are within Xi's own model for governing the country. The tensions really arise from him.”

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Independent political commentator in Beijing

11 Jul 2022 3 4

Yang Weimin

Inserted 1 year ago

“Uncertainty is the main factor hurting our national economic development. Uncertainty is the great enemy of action.”

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Economist who advises the Chinese government

30 Jun 2022 2 1

Wei Fenghe

Inserted 1 year ago

“If anyone dares to split Taiwan from China, the Chinese army will definitely not hesitate to start a war no matter the cost. The PLA [People's Liberation Army] would have no choice but to fight … and crush any attempt of Taiwan independence, safeguarding national sovereignty and territorial integrity.”

Chinese Defence Minister

10 Jun 2022 5 3

Zhang Jun

Inserted 1 year ago

“There are many things that the US can do, such as easing sanctions on [North Korea] in certain areas, and ending joint military exercises [with South Korea]. The key is to take actions, not just talk about its readiness for dialogue with no preconditions.”

China’s UN Ambassador

08 Jun 2022 4 2

Adam Ni

Inserted 1 year ago

“Both inside the Party and outside the Party, people are anxious about the centralisation of power around Xi [Xi Jinping]. I think we can read the increasing prominence of Li in that context. I think there are more people trying to signal their anxiety of Xi Jinping's centralisation of power and the potential future by supporting Li Keqiang in some way. It would be a mistake to think that Li is now able to counterbalance Xi, who has spent his first two terms in office building up personal power at the expense of his premier. I think Xi is probably making a tactical retreat on economics, so letting Li shoulder the economic troubles, if things go wrong then you've got the premier to blame, and if it goes right then it's to the benefit of Xi, and it eases some of the internal pressure.”

China watcher and editor of the current affairs newsletter China Neican

01 Jun 2022 2 4

David Bandurski

Inserted 1 year ago

“After lionising Xi [Xi Jinping] for many months, the president was absent from the front page of the People's Daily newspaper five times in May - just below the unofficial threshold that something may be afoot. Li [Li Keqiang], by contrast, has been slightly more visible as state media shared a transcript of his economic summit on social media, further intensifying speculation. From late April through May, corresponding to new questions over the handling of COVID in Shanghai and pressures on the economy, the signals have to some extent been mixed. It has no longer been all Xi all of the time. This has led to speculation that perhaps Xi is facing headwinds within the Party over his handling of the crisis - and that this might be an opportunity for Li, who may have very different ideas about where to go with the economy.”

Co-director of the China Media Project

01 Jun 2022 4 3

Lijian Zhao

Inserted 1 year ago

“We urge relevant US politicians to earnestly abide by the one-China principle, and immediately stop official exchanges with Taiwan in any form and refrain from sending any wrong signals to the 'Taiwan independence' separatist forces. China will continue to take forceful measures to resolutely safeguard China's sovereignty and territorial integrity.”

Spokesman for the Chinese foreign ministry

31 May 2022 4 5

Robert Bohn Sikol

Inserted 1 year ago

“The South Pacific countries know how to play the aid game. Chinese money will be accepted, but often the South Pacific countries do not stay bought. It will take more than one visit to change minds. The West needs to be concerned, but not frantic.”

Former legislator in Vanuatu

30 May 2022 4 2

Benjamin Herscovitch

Inserted 1 year ago

“China is expected to ramp up its diplomatic, commercial, economic, logistical and people to people efforts to get this kind of a deal. The South Pacific, in particular, is not a primary area of geostrategic concern for China compared to South China Sea and Southeast Asia. However, the fact that China is devoting resources to this region speaks to Beijing's global ambitions.”

Senior fellow at Australian National University School of Regulation and Global Governance

30 May 2022 3 4

Yi Wang

Inserted 1 year ago

“Don't be too anxious and don't be too nervous. Because the common development and prosperity of China and all the other developing countries would only mean great harmony, greater justice and greater progress of the whole world.”

State Councillor and China's foreign minister

30 May 2022 2 3

Einar Tangen

Inserted 1 year ago

“The US-led partnership for maritime domain awareness (IMPDA) is a thinly veiled rationale for the creation of a surveillance network, aimed at criticizing China's fishing industry. It will serve as another irritant in what is a deteriorating international relationship.”

Beijing-based political analyst

28 May 2022 4 6

Hu Bo

Inserted 1 year ago

“It seems like a joke that the first substantive security action of Quad is aimed at Chinese fishing boats. The initiative was only aimed at stigmatising China and depriving it of the right to peaceful uses of the sea. The move toward Chinese fishing vessels is likely to be just an 'appetizer', Chinese government and Coast Guard vessels, as well as warships, will also become the next targets under the surveillance. This is feasible for the Quad's broader surveillance system.”

Director of the South China Sea Strategic Situation Probing Initiative

28 May 2022 6 3

Ramon Pacheco Pardo

Inserted 1 year ago

“China's maritime behaviour is a concern not just for the Quad, but also for countries in Southeast Asia. So, I expect many countries are going to join [the IPMDA - Indo-Pacific Partnership for Maritime Domain Awareness]. In my view, this is the first explicitly anti-China step the Quad has taken, because it's clearly targeting China. The Quad's biggest initiative so far has had to do with delivering COVID-19 vaccines. But we'll have to see how effective it is.”

Professor of international relations at King's College London

28 May 2022 5 2

Gregory Poling

Inserted 1 year ago

“The IPMDA [Indo-Pacific Partnership for Maritime Domain Awareness] could be enormously helpful to developing states across the Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. This effort could seriously lower the cost and increase the capabilities of monitoring illegal fishing and Chinese maritime militia behaviour.”

Senior fellow for south-east Asia at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

28 May 2022 8 4

Zhao Tong

Inserted 1 year ago

“Beijing could have abstained, but it used the veto to publicly signal its growing disagreement with and resentment toward Washington. Everyone knew that the veto would send a wrong and dangerous message to North Korea, but Russia and China believe they face higher stakes in pushing back against their perceived hostility from the Western countries. Beijing and Moscow also genuinely see North Korea's nuclear and missile developments as driven by threats from Washington and cannot be fully blamed on Pyongyang. We have a perception gap problem among the major powers. North Korea is only exploiting and benefiting from it.”

Beijing-based security scholar af the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

27 May 2022 4 3

Christopher Heurlin

Inserted 1 year ago

“It's fairly clear that Xi Jinping views his most important legacy as making China a superpower, as returning China to what he sees as its historically rightful place as a world power. And that means economic growth, but it also means becoming a military power that's able to exert a large influence on politics in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. For the US, focusing on competition with China is one of the few things that unites Republicans and Democrats. There's definitely a desire to preserve America's superpower status and its influence in the world order, which does mean that these two countries do have conflicting objectives to a certain extent. So, there is certainly potential for tensions at the very least.”

Associate professor of government and Asian studies at Bowdoin College in the US state of Maine

26 May 2022 6 4

Adrian Zenz

Inserted 1 year ago

“This is by far the most important leak of evidence from the region and the largest and the most significant. It's much more significant than anything we've seen before because it contains evidence on so many levels.”

Senior Fellow in China Studies at Victims of Communism

25 May 2022 4 3

Katrina Yu

Inserted 1 year ago

“There are no journalists, no media [or] anything like that travelling with her due to COVID reasons, and most information that we are getting so far about her day-to-day activities are from state media in China, or just little snippets from her team itself.”

Al Jazeera journalist in Beijing

25 May 2022 1 1

Xi Jinping

Inserted 1 year ago

“Countries do not need patronising lecturers; still less should human rights issues be politicised and used as a tool to apply double standards, or as a pretext to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries.”

President of the People's Republic of China

25 May 2022 3 3

Wang Qishan

Inserted 1 year ago

“China and South Korea are friendly neighbors and strategic partners. Strengthening Beijing-Seoul ties amid the current difficulties that the world is facing is increasingly important for the two countries and the rest of the world.”

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Vice President of China

10 May 2022 1 1

William Burns

Inserted 1 year ago

“I think the Chinese leadership is looking very carefully at all this - at the costs and consequences of any effort to use force to gain control over Taiwan. I don't for a minute think that this has eroded Xi's [Xi Jinping] determination over time to gain control over Taiwan. But I think it's something that's affecting their calculation about how and when they go about doing that.”

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CIA Director

07 May 2022 4 4

Liu Xiaoming

Inserted 1 year ago

“China is prepared to strengthen communication and coordination with the new ROK administration to jointly push forward the process of political settlement of the Peninsula issue.”

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Chinese Special Representative on Korean Peninsula Affairs

05 May 2022 2 3

Nick Marro

Inserted 1 year ago

“They're luring away a lot of Taiwanese talent and cultivating their own industries in ways that are implicitly weakening the Taiwanese economy, and they're doing this without sending ships or boats into Taiwanese territorial space.”

Analyst for China, Taiwan, and Macau at the Economist Intelligence Unit

04 May 2022 3 3

Dan Wang

Inserted 2 years ago

“I'm very worried where this is going because the current lockdown in Shanghai has been looking like it is going to end after this May holiday which means most people can probably walk around their neighbourhoods but for most factories around the East coast they are not in a very good condition. Taking notice of what is happening in Shanghai, many other cities are taking precautionary measures - even with one COVID case a whole city can be locked down. We might be looking at a situation where 30 cities might be locked down simultaneously. That is hugely disruptive to the supply chain.”

Chief economist at Hang Seng Bank

30 Apr 2022 4 3

Collin Koh

Inserted 2 years ago

“If you are going to 'shock and awe' Taiwan with overwhelming force in the initial stages, there might be a lot of civilian casualties. That would make occupation difficult and harden international opposition. The Chinese can't have any illusions now that they will be welcomed as liberators in Taiwan and given supplies and assistance.”

Research fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

29 Apr 2022 5 2

Zhao Tong

Inserted 2 years ago

“Many Chinese experts are monitoring this war as if they are imagining how this would unfold if it happened between China and the West. China probably should think about conducting a much stronger and much more comprehensive operation at the very beginning to shock and awe the Taiwanese forces to secure a major advantage. They believe securing that advantage would deter enemy forces from being willing to intervene.”

Beijing-based security scholar af the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

29 Apr 2022 3 2

Wang Wenbin

Inserted 2 years ago

“I have noted those remarks of the US side. We deplore and reject Secretary Blinken's statement. Since China and the US established diplomatic ties in 1979, US administrations, including the current one, have all clearly stated that they would adhere to the one-China policy. The China-US Joint Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations and the August 17 Communiqué clearly noted that 'the United States of America recognized the Government of the People's Republic of China as the sole legal government of China, and it acknowledged the Chinese position that there is but one China and Taiwan is part of China.' In the Shanghai Communiqué, the U.S. side also declared that 'The United States acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China. The United States Government does not challenge that position.' The US admits that Taiwan is part of China, but keeps talking about the mainland's potential aggression of Taiwan. Isn't this self-contradictory since a country can not 'invade' part of its own territory? The US leadership has stated on multiple occasions that the US does not support 'Taiwan independence'. However, the US side has not stopped selling arms to and having official contact with Taiwan, which have sent wrong signals to 'Taiwan independence' forces. We have this stern warning for the US side: The historical trend of China's reunification cannot be held back, and the one-China principle is what underpins peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait. The US side shall not underestimate the strong resolve, determination and capability of the 1.4 billion Chinese people in defending national sovereignty and territorial integrity. Reneging on the commitment will push Taiwan to dangerous waters and bring unbearable cost to the US itself.”

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Spokesperson of China and deputy director of the Foreign Ministry Information Department of China

27 Apr 2022 6 8

Wang Wenbin

Inserted 2 years ago

“The foreign ministers of China and the Solomon Islands officially signed the framework agreement on security cooperation recently.”

Spokesperson of China and deputy director of the Foreign Ministry Information Department of China

19 Apr 2022 2 1

Tommy Wu

Inserted 2 years ago

“We expect a stronger macro policy response in the second quarter to shore up growth, but the impact will be limited in the context of restricted mobility. The effectiveness of policy stimulus will depend on whether mobility will still be restricted in a broad scale, so risks to the outlook remain skewed to the downside.”