"The effectiveness of the response was especially commendable considering the number of people affected and the extent of the damage."

Hans Troedsson, World Health Organization's Representative in China, after visiting and inspecting health measures in areas severely hit in the earthquake in Sichuan on May 12

"Food security comes first in China, more important than fuel."

Song Yanqin, a co-drafter of China's national energy strategies, saying that China has no plan to sacrifice food for fuel amid the controversy over biofuel, at the Asia Clean Energy Forum 2008, sponsored by the Asian Development Bank in Manila on June 5

"What politics cannot solve, you can be sure sportsmen cannot solve."

Wilfried Lemke, Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General on Sport for Development and Peace, stressing that the Beijing Olympic Games should not be disturbed by political issues at a press conference in Geneva on June 10

"Failure by the biggest financial firms in the world to adequately take risk into account, coupled with the aggressive financial policies of the biggest economy in the world, have led not only to corporate losses. Most people on the planet have become poorer."

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, blaming "aggressive" U.S. policies for the global financial crisis at Russia's main annual event for international investors in St. Petersburg on June 7

"The West is uncertain whether this huge nation will be good or bad for the world. This tension will only be resolved when both sides approximate each other's worldviews and accept that they will never have identical cultural values."

Lee Kuan Yew, Minister Mentor of Singapore, in his article entitled "Two Images of China" that was published in Forbes magazine on June 16