Ignacio Cerezo

“The internment camps in Xinjiang, the betrayal of Hong Kong, hostage diplomacy, intense focus on national security issues, truculent secrecy around Covid-19, and, most of all, economic weakness have shown the world that China’s apparent desire to integrate into the global system of governance was temporary, provisional, and opportunistic rather than ideological.”
― Anne Stevenson-Yang, Wild Ride: A short history of the opening and closing of the Chinese economy

“Given the imperative to push capital investment, China’s educational curriculum, quality of healthcare, and efficiency of financial services all deteriorated as capital was concentrated in building physical facilities.”
― Anne Stevenson-Yang, Wild Ride: A short history of the opening and closing of the Chinese economy

“The property market became a stage on which governments and financial institutions played out a pantomime designed to present the appearance of a healthy commercial market.”
― Anne Stevenson-Yang, Wild Ride: A short history of the opening and closing of the Chinese economy

“China’s breathless rise and its experiment in Western capitalism of the last four and a half decades were spurred on and shaped by the Party’s survival agenda. The Party no longer needs the outside world. In fact, survival now dictates that it return to the isolation that has characterized so much of Chinese history.”
― Anne Stevenson-Yang, Wild Ride: A short history of the opening and closing of the Chinese economy