Karl Marx Quotes

If it is commercialism to want the possession of a strategic point giving the American people an opportunity to maintain a foothold in the markets of that great Eastern country [China], for God's sake let us have commercialism.

A trade war between the U.S. and China would hurt both countries, but there is reason to believe that the U.S. has more to lose. Today, 80% of global trade comprises international supply chains,” she writes. “Declining trade costs have allowed firms to splinter their production lines geographically, with goods processed and value added in multiple countries along the chain. If China threw a handful of sand in the gears of these chains, it could disrupt entire production networks, doing serious damage to the U.S….

I think U.S. and Chinese businesses need a common language and dialogue.

Now there is a cultural change under way in the Foreign Service.

We welcome Chinese investment in the United States with open arms.

Commerce is the weapon …., the all powerful arm with which we have entered in earnest, with every prospect of success, upon our conquest of Mexico.

A nation imports from a distance a manufactured commodity, which it is granted it could make as cheap, or cheaper, at home, were the manufacture introduced there. To introduce the manufacture is, however, too expensive a project to be carried into effect by any private individual. The whole society might do so, through the expenditure for a few years of a portion of its revenue, much less than what an equal number of years succeeding them will return to it in the diminished cost of the article.

Dollar Diplomacy

Russians would make charming visitors at New-Yorke, and civilize that part of America wonderfully.

An economic version of mutual deterrence is preserving the uneasy status quo between China and Japan.

We need more and more engagement with China rather than isolating it more and more.

Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.

We the most sacred Moslem Emperor … Murad III, in token of our Imperial friendship … with Elizabeth, Queen of England, does signify and declare that the people and subjects of the same Queen, may safely and securely come to our princely dominions, with their goods and merchandise, and ladings and other commodities by sea, in great and small vessels, and by land with their carriages and cattle, and that no man shall hurt them, but they may buy and sell without hindrance …

China became an economic power with few equals. By 2010 China gad overtaken Japan as the world’s second largest economy in terms of GDP, China’s transformation consistently drew one ideas beyond it shores.

… ideas. commodities even, refuse the bounds of a nation. All are inextricably connected…. This is true especially of our modern world with its complex commerce and means of intellectual connection.

Growing up where I grew up in Queens, you have the United Nations all around you.

I think most Americans probably believe that our relationship with Japan began in 1941. In fact, obviously, it began in 1854 when Commodore Perry sailed into Yokohama harbor and threatened to burn it down unless they would open up to trade with us. The imperial impulse was first ours historically.

Western design houses have been exploring China in terms of investment for well over a decade.

I should be very sorry if the Germans disapproved of me.

An all-out trade war with China would be damaging to Disney's business and to business in general. It's something I think we have to be very careful about.

I chose to start Schwarzman Scholars because I saw the potential for the world to become focused and unhappy with China, in large part because of the populism that was growing throughout the world.

I have learned some core lessons along the way. Among the most important, I have become a firm believer that a strong geopolitical relationship can be born out of a strong economic relationship, which often begins with trade.

China's influence is growing; it is natural that they want to integrate more, do more business with countries around them, and the Belt and Road is a constructive way in which they can do so.

China is just so different from the rest of the world.

My perspective is cultural and world-based. It's always been a global perspective.