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There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

Chinese artists have been subversive over thousands of years, taking what they think of the government and embedding it in their art. There might be censorship of not going as far as they might.

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

Pretty much anybody who does creative work in China navigates the gray zone. People aren't clear about where the line is any more, beyond which life gets really nasty and you become a dissident without having intended ever to be one.

The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.

China not only does not support hacking but also opposes it.

Many Chinese companies are run like military camps with military discipline. We do not run a company that way. It does not help the creative process.

If you're trying to write about what the Chinese people are talking about, you can sometimes get a distorted picture if you go online and look at the conversation on social media.

I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about.

There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.