Jimmy Lai Quotes

He was discussing the political problem whereby if political leaders take policy risks and succeed, they receive little credit and their opponents call the success a failure anyway. While if the policy fails, then they have both their opponents and their previous supporters attacking them along with the press and public. Business however cannot stand pat. Companies which do not take risks do not survive very long.

Turkey had massacred many Armenians. The British government protested strongly and made their views known to the Turks. The result was resentment by Turkey, who regarded the matter as a purely internal affair, and the curtailment of British economic interests in the area.

In 1852, when the national debate on slavery was raging, Stowe’s book, Uncle Tom's Cabin, was published and within 16 months had sold a million copies. Its mass media effect developed a ground swell against slavery as well as over 30 rebuttal books. Many credited her book with the consciousness raising that was necessary to support the North and alarm the South.

This is a very important historical and political quotation. First, notice that the Secretary of State was criticizing the policies of his President, a refreshingly honest statement, but one which would never be made after the 1950s. The criticism was not even mild but very heavy. A political opponent could not be more negative. Next consider that while the Secretary of State and almost all the experienced diplomats thought the President foolishly wrong and naive about the practicality of self-determination, by the end of the 20th century, virtually every country in the world, capitalist, communist, secular or religious, wealthy or impoverished, all see self-determination is a basic right of all nations. The President was on the right side of history and all the professional diplomats on most nations were on the wrong side. However, Secretary of Lansing was right about one thing. The quest for self-determination has caused a fearful toll of human lives—not thousands as Lansing predicted but millions. He was also right about another aspect—namely that the unit of self-determination can be confusing and contentious. For example, the French Canadians of Quebec want a great deal of self determination and autonomy, but they do not want to give the same right of self-determination to the Mohawk Indians in Quebec who want to govern themselves. There is a continuous dispute in Turkey where the Kurds claim the right of self-determination within Turkey. Turkey has literally dozens of minority groups. Does self-determination mean that each can have its own nation within what is Turkey. And what about the Native Americans in the United States? Nonetheless, Wilson’s general principle is approved by all while the details are often contentious.

This is radically different from most other Chinese corporations and most American or other country corporations for that matter who seek as much government business as they can get. Alibaba—the largest e-commerce company in the world, larger than Amazon.com and eBay put together--had hundreds of millions of on-line Chinese buyers and hundreds of thousands of Chinese retailers. A huge proportion of Chinese retail sales go through Alibaba.

When Donald Trump won the 2016 Presidential race, he faced an extremely complex conflcit of interest situation which he took relatively lightly. He owned and was developing and operating major resorts, hotels, casinos and golf courses in many nations of the world. Those governments had the responsibility of regulating the construction, sanitation, enviornmental impact and often many otgher aspects of the venture. Often, Trmp's corporation recieved subisdies and almost always tax breaks. In some cases the development corporation had to pay royalties or rental to the national government. When Trump became president, the counties were in the position of regulating and negotiating with companies owned by the President of the United States--an impossibe situation. In Indonesia, before running for the Presidency, Trump had formed a partnership to manege the enterprise in Indonesia with a local, wealthy. buisnessman, who like Trump decided to enter politics and like Trump became President,