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China Speak: School Attacks, Riots & Jackie Chan


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Quotes from around China this week.

“If our own countrymen don’t support our country, who will support our country? We know our country has many problems. We (can) talk about it when the door is closed. To outsiders, (we should say,) ‘Our country is the best.”
- Jackie Chan speaks about corruption in China, saying that it’s in fact America that’s the most corrupt nation in the world. Ministry of Tofu

“Investor anxiety has been successfully sedated by central-bank liquidity policies in recent months. Risk appetites are higher and hopes for economic activity have picked up, especially for Chinese growth.”
- Michael Hartnett, chief investment strategist at Bank of America’s Merrill Lynch unit. Bloomberg

"I was angry and so I posted everything online to scare him and get him back. I didn't expect it would go this far."
- A now regretful 25-year-old man claimed that he had sexual relations with a male deputy head of the local agricultural bureau in Gaomi, Shandong.  Global Times

“Tibetan rioters really did a lot of bad things, but when the riots started, we weren't allowed to go to Tibet, and [the government] wasn't giving us any information. At the beginning, much of the information [reported by the Western media] came from Tibetan exile groups in Dharamsala. If [the government] had let the story be told, it would have been more critical of the rioters.”
-Barbara Demick, Beijing bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, on the Lhasa riots of 2008. Global Times

“We must recognize that the online world is not a space beyond the law. Our words online can, whether intentionally or unintentionally, violate the law.”
- People’s Daily via China Media Project

“After the shooting attack on the elementary school in the U.S., the local authorities responded immediately. The entire country mourned together. The incident brought people to tears – and then the light from innumerable candles gave people warmth. Meanwhile in China’s Henan, more than 20 children are injured. The response from the local government is cold, and information has been cut off. This not only shocks people, it makes them incomparably angry. We often attack the U.S. for having ulterior motives in criticizing China. But doesn’t the behavior of some local governments just encourage those ulterior motives?”
- Global Times on its Weibo feed. Wall Street Journal


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