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"Connotations of opening up are always open to all things new in terms of idea, policy and management of capital and labor resources."
Chen Deming
"Chen [Deming] is known for his extraordinary global vision."
Yazhou Zhoukan, a Hong Kong-based Chinese-language weekly magazine on international affairs
"Using China as a target may provoke a backlash, so politicians need to be careful."
Cheng Li, professor at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, and Co-chairman of the research organ of the Committee of 100, a New York-based nonpartisan group of Chinese Americans, citing a recent poll by the committee that indicates a majority of Americans, 52 percent, say they have a positive view of China
"Expressing my readiness to stand as a candidate in the presidential election, I ask him (Putin) to agree to head the government of Russia after the election of the new president."
Kremlin-backed presidential candidate Dmitry Medvedev, mapping out a route for outgoing President Vladimir Putin to retain influence in Russian politics during a televised address on December 11
"It is a major event and good news for Africa to have new players entering in the playground."
Javier Santiso, chief development economist of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, saying that increased interest in Africa by emerging economies such as China and India is good news for the continent, when he attended the EU-Africa Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, on December 7-8
"Our species is not static."
Henry C. Harpending, an anthropologist at the University of Utah, announcing results of a study that find residents of various continents becoming increasingly different from one another. The conclusion conflicts a previous belief that a future Earth would be populated by a blend of all races into a common human form
"Recent developments, including the deterioration in financial market conditions, have increased the uncertainty surrounding the outlook for economic growth and inflation."
The U.S. Federal Open Market Committee, justifying its December 11 decision to cut the benchmark federal fund rate by a quarter percentage point in a statement | 
