Complied by Nathan Wakelin-King

“While the United States believes that the best Internet policy is to encourage the free flow of information globally, the United States’ WTO request relates specifically to the commercial and trade impact of the Internet disruptions

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Who or what ministry is responsible for determining if and when a foreign website should be blocked in China?”

- Fragments from a press release from Ron Kirk, the US Trade Representative. Through the WTO, the US is seeking more information about the Chinese internet censorship system to help its businesses access China.

Office of the United States Trade Reresentative

“He [Obama] just wants to use China as a scarecrow.”

Sun, an economics professor based in Beijing (full name unspecified) regarding the controversial issues regarding China that have arisen during the lead up to the US election. Issues include allegations of currency undervaluation and a negative effect on US manufacturing jobs, copyright infringement, hacking, and government obstruction of Chinese markets. Some commentators have stated that the US is unnecessarily blaming domestic problems on China.

Washington Post


“We basically put the fruits to sleep”

Eric Eng, APL’s vice president for global reefer trade.

“Reefer” refers to a variety of refrigerated shipping container. Increased wages and concerns of the quality, safety, and availability of local foods have caused a large increase in construction of reefers, shipping perishable foods such as cherries and grapes en masse from the US to China.

Bloomberg

“They use the suicides as "spiritual human bombs" to break the peace of Tibet and ruin the image of China”

The Global Times’ take on a recent case of self-immolation by a 20 year-old Tibetan nun. The quote is referring to the Dalai Lama, his supporters, and the “Western Media”.

Global Times

"But will China's decreased exports to the U.S., as a result of the imposition of higher tariffs, increase jobs in the U.S.? … If the U.S. does choose to impose tariffs, then the spending of its consumers will increase, its investors in China will suffer declining profits and its domestic inflation will grow."

Tao Wenzhao, researcher at the Tsinghua Center for US-China relations, in response to the recent US senate bill to impose tariffs on Chinese goods if the Yuan is not revalued.

Bloomberg

"This is absolutely ridiculous! How could the US Army have a Hello Kitty badge!"
- An anonymous visitor at the Museum of Dianmian War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Heshun, Yunnan Province. The Museum displays relics from World War II, though recently someone noticed that a badge, supposedly from a US soldier, displays a “Hello Kitty” icon.  Hello Kitty was designed in 1974, but the overbearing cuteness of the brand seems almost as incongruous to a WWII jungle fighter as its age.

China.org.cn

"Resolutely support the American People’s mighty Wall Street Revolution."

- a translation of a banner among the few hundred protestors who are demonstrating in Zhengzhou in support of the US’ Occuppy Wall Street movement. Despite the initial enthusiasm of Chinese state media to the protests, the LA times claims that there has been a sudden reversal of the official attitudes to the protests, and videos, photos and web discussions of the movement have been selectively removed from the internet.

LA Times