Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
China... has the capacity to ensure its stability and growth.
Around the world, when China has good results, people always think something bad.
China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
I believe that if you treat China as an enemy, then it is likely to become one.
We see China becoming an unstoppable force. It's a huge threat and a huge opportunity.
I believe it's important that Hong Kong does not become another Chinese city.
China is not only formidable, it is also aggressively building its own economic infrastructure. Just a few years from now, China will rival the U.S. and the European Union in global market power. It already has surpassed us in population.
China is doing lots of things right. It's investing in education and R&D, it's opening up, it's more cosmopolitan than it's ever been. I think it's very likely that China will continue to explode economically and certainly become a superpower.
Nobody messes with China, nobody messes with the United States, or with Europe, because these are really big entities with a lot of clout and a lot of economic power. They have a place at the table.