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China... has the capacity to ensure its stability and growth.

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

China, hidden and mysterious, has always interested me.

Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.

China is a great country with a great culture, populated by fascinating, industrious and talented people.

China in particular is an absolutely fascinating place to be. Culturally and politically and economically it's becoming more and more relevant. If you look at how China is perceived in different parts of the world, you can recognize it's very dynamic. It's also challenging what it thinks of itself.

The Philippines, it has a politics of patronage. Family and favors, in addition to the old cliche of guns, goons and gold, really do still hold a lot of sway.

China is a great manufacturing center, but it's actually mostly an assembly plant. So it assembles parts and components, high technology that comes from the surrounding industrial - more advanced industrial centers - Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, the United States, Europe - and it basically assembles them.

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.

I think China represents huge opportunities for Europe.