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The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China’s future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of the one-child policy, the build-up of the welfare state.

Ai Weiwei

[Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden.
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Development Everything Fairness Holding Internet Letting Outside People Trail
What counts in the end is what the government does.
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Count Doe End Government
I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it’s all we need.
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Abstract Art Everybody Freedom Need Thinking
There’s no such thing as “fixed” culture. China is also becoming more global. Its problems are becoming international problems, becoming German problems, becoming American problems.
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Country Culture Fixed Global International More Problem
If I really have nothing to do, I just watch my cats, take some photos, and go back to my personal blog.
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Blog Cat Nothing Personal Photo Really Watches
Life is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort.
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Effort Interesting Life Little Make More Much
I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.
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Artist Cities New York
You can never know what is and what is not powerful, but you can always find out what the powerful people are scared of.
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Always Know Look People Powerful Scared
Through my work and ways of expression, I strive to engage in dialogue with the society that I am living in.
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Engage Expression Living Society Strive Way
In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.
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Deal Democratic Dictatorship Kind Society Totalitarian
It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that. There are crises and emergencies all the time, we might not even be aware of some. But I am afraid we’ll have to wait and observe precisely what the government is up to.
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Crises Easy Emergencies Government Job Time Waiting
Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.
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Application Art Look School Statistic Student Ten Thousand
I think it’s quite narrow-minded. There wasn’t much encouragement or opportunities for any artist – not just Chinese artists.
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I don’t think there is a distinct change, because in the West I’m not a person who can serve his purpose.
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Change Distinct Person Purpose Thinking West
Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
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Act Change Chinese Kind Society Tell Thinking World
You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
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Criticism Function Money Society Star Turn Work

The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China’s future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of the one-child policy, the build-up of the welfare state.

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