"Our future and China's future are linked together."
David Miliband, British Foreign Secretary, during his recent China visit
"The reality is that America's 'weak dollar' policy—its long-standing practice of allowing its currency to depreciate in order to lower the value of its foreign debts—amounts to the biggest currency manipulation in human history."
Liam Halligan, chief economist at UK's Prosperity Capital Management, saying that the United States has a history of currency manipulation in an article on Daily Telegraph newspaper on March 13
"We do not agree that China wants only to get resources from Africa. When the West tells us that China is only after African resources, sometimes we remind them that they themselves have been after African resources."
John Kayode Shinkaiye, chief of staff at the Bureau of the African Union Chairman
"I'm really pleased with the fact the international community and the United States now have a realization of the side that is trying to obstruct the peace process."
Saeb Erekat, Palestinian negotiator, on Israel's settlement plans in the disputed east Jerusalem
"It's a well-planned act aimed at scheming new armed conflicts in the Caucasus region."
Dmitri Rogozin, Russia's NATO envoy, slamming a Georgian television channel that sparked panic by broadcasting a faked report on March 13 announcing that Russia had launched an invasion and the country's president was dead
"The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom."
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, telling Congress on March 16 that Osama bin Laden will never face trial in the United States because he will not be captured alive
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