Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.
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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.
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Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.
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A clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.
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I think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don’t think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.
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Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.
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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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I think I’m just a traveler. When you walk across a river and there’s no bridge, you build one. I’m used to having to deal with Chinese Communist ideology.
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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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You only have temporary curiosity, amusement, and challenges, but that does not necessarily mean you are really convinced that it’s necessary or that it’s not even worth to do it.
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So for too long Americans take liberty as granted. We think we are in the safe hand, the democracy and the liberty, which is not true. And it can be even getting much worse than today.
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The rest of the world understands little about China’s changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.
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It’s very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.
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You’re still being looked at as somebody who – it’s a very complicated issue.
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I don’t think China should care if this crazy old guy should have a show here or not.
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In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
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