And who is going to win the competition if U.S. cannot hold a strong ideology? And even the U.S. would’ve lost the ground to win.
AI WEIWEINow I’ve come to such a mixed culture: America, Europe, South America, Africa. And the politics are changing everywhere all the time and becoming even more unpredictable.
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I think Donald Trump should cool down a little bit. To pay more attention to the history. To really understand what U.S.’s value is about. I think, as a president, those things you always have to ask.
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.
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Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.
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For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
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Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness
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Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I’m not nostalgic about the old city. I don’t enjoy it that much.
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If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.
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The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.
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It’s really rubbish that some kind of “technical” learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.
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The deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness – doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any little development. Once it is out there, everybody can make their own judgement.
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I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.
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Any politician who respects China’s government should tell it openly what is in his heart. It is disrespectful to keep quiet about such issues – both vis-a-vis the government and the people concerned.
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Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
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Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
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