"China's arms sales were very small in scale and never made to non-sovereign entities. We have strict end-user certificates."

Liu Guijin, China's special envoy for Darfur, when commenting on a recent BBC documentary alleging China has violated the UN arms embargo in Darfur as being biased and made with ulterior motives

"Today, China's growing infrastructure commitments in Africa are helping to address the huge infrastructure deficit of the continent."

Obiageli Katryn Ezekwesili, World Bank's Vice President for the Africa region, when releasing a report that said that the Asian giant is spearheading a massive infrastructure revolution on the continent critical to reducing poverty on July 10

"Some people want to sell Western democracy to China, some want to make money."

Hugo de Burgh, Director of China Media Center at the University of Westminster, saying that Westerners tend to evaluate China by proceeding from their own interests in the country, at a public debate, dubbed "Battle for China," in London on July 12

"It is an extremely moving and important moment for me-something that we have been dreaming about for some time and that dream has now come true."

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who spearheaded the Union for the Mediterranean, after EU and Mediterranean countries officially launched the bloc at a summit in Paris on July 13

"The challenges facing governments in managing globalization are formidable, and success in spreading prosperity more widely requires a strong common purpose."

Director General Pascal Lamy of the World Trade Organization, writing in the introduction of the world body's annual report, which said that trade has allowed nations to benefit from specialization and economies of scale to produce more efficiently

"Japan should not repeat its behavior of promising a forward-looking relationship with Korea but then stirring up a dispute such as the Dokdo issue [once in a while] when the government changes."

Statement from South Korea's presidential office, after Japan said it would write about a longstanding island dispute in school textbooks. South Korea and Japan both lay claim to a group of desolate, rocky islets that Seoul calls Dokdo and Tokyo calls Takeshima