"The Chinese Government responded to the effects of the global economic recession by introducing expansionary fiscal and monetary policies to offset the sharp decline in external demand, putting more emphasis on domestic demand to drive gross domestic product growth."

The World Trade Organization, acknowledging in its biennial review of China's trade policy that China had "resisted a protectionist response to the effects of the global economic recession"

"The United States is running a trade deficit not just against China. It is running a trade deficit against almost 100 other countries. China is not unique in how it is exporting more to the United States than it's importing."

Danny Quah, a professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science

"Because we are living in a very complicated world, we need to bring into full play not just the efforts of governments but also those of NGOs."

He Yafei, Chinese Ambassador to the UN Office in Geneva, suggesting the G20, which has more members than the G8, become the premier economic forum for global governance at the Global Redesign Summit of the World Economic Forum on May 31

"It would be folly for any country to grandstand and proclaim that it is immune to terror attacks... [but] there is no threat to South Africa as we speak now."

Nathi Mthethwa, South African Police Minister, playing down the threat of terrorism at the World Cup, which begins on June 11

"These extremists are not tolerating any other community, including Ahmadis, and it seems the government has failed to control them."

I. A. Rehman, Executive Director of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, after attacks on two mosques belonging to the Ahmadi sect killed dozens of people in Lahore on May 28