"While we appreciate the long hours and the effort that our Chinese counterparts have put into those trade discussions, quite frankly, in the grand scheme of a $300- to $500-billion trade deficit, the things that have been achieved thus far are pretty small. I mean, they're not small if you're a company, maybe, that has seen some relief. But in terms of really getting at some of the fundamental elements behind why this imbalance exists, there's still a lot more work to do."
- Rex Tillerson, US Secretary of State, at a press conference during Pres. Trump's visit to Beijing, Nov. 9, 2017
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"We have trade deficits with China that are through the roof. They're so big and so bad that it's embarrassing saying what the number is. But you know what the number is. And I don't want to embarrass anybody four days before I land in China, but it's horrible."
U.S. Pres. Donald Trump, speaking on Nov. 1, 2017
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“I’m quite confident there will be significant outcomes on the economic and trade fronts. [A trade surplus] in the long run, will not help China’s economy. It might even hurt China’s economy. We want more balanced trade relations with other countries.”
Cui Tiankui 崔天凯, speaking to reporters on Oct. 30, 2017, in advance of U.S. Pres. Trump's trip to China
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“The very international order that has benefited India’s rise — and that of many others — is increasingly under strain. China, while rising alongside India, has done so less responsibly, at times undermining the international, rules-based order even as countries like India operate within a framework that protects other nations’ sovereignty.”
Rex Tillerson, U.S. Secretary of State, speaking in Washington on October 17, 2017.
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"For a long time, China has been making unremitting efforts to solve the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue and playing an important and constructive role all along....
"Meanwhile, to ease the situation and solve the problem, other parties should also strive for the shared goal. It won't help to absolve oneself of responsibility, or kick down the ladder, still less stab in other's back. If when China is busy putting out a fire while someone pours fuel on it...
"We hope all relevant parties can play their due role, assume their due responsibility and join China....
"Enough of the so-called "China responsibility" theory on the Korean Peninsula issue."
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Geng Shuang 耿爽 , China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson, speaking on July 11, 2017.
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"They don’t listen to China at all, and they don’t listen to you three quarters of the time."
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Mao Zedong 毛泽东, speaking on September 18, 1956 to Asastas Mikoyan, top aide to Soviet boss Nikita Khrushchev about the difficulty of getting North Korean leader Kim Il-sung to follow advice. Later Chinese leaders have offered similar complaints.
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“Beyond a one-year horizon, the longer-term impacts on the U.S. GDP are negative in all scenarios."
-- Ellen Zentner, chief U.S. economist, Morgan Stanley. Zentner ran a number of models to test the impact of imposting trade tariffs of various sizes. On Jan. 27, 2017, Morgan Stanley issued its assessment that U.S. protectionism might produce a slight short term benefit, but that the long term impact on U.S. GDP would be bad.
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"China should guide international society in together shaping a more just and rational new international order."
-- Xi Jinping 习近平, Chinese Communist Party Secretary and President of the PRC, speaking at a national security conference on Feb. 17, 2017.
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"'A war within the president's term', 'war breaking out tonight' are not just slogans, but the reality."
-- Liu Guoshun 刘国顺, a staffer in the People's Liberation Army national mobilization, writing on the PLA website on Jan. 20, 2017 about the likelihood of a U.S.-China conflict with Pres. Donald Trump's term.
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“At this stage and time with WeChat, Weibo and other products, it’s hopeless.”
-- Kai-fu Lee, assessing Facebook's prospects in China. Lee headed Google China at one time and is now CEO of Innovation Works. Lee was quoted by the Wall Street Journal on Jan. 30, 2017
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