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“China has had a long and complex history and has managed to evolve its own culture for 4,000 years. It therefore not necessarily true that we know exactly what is best for the internal structure of China.” .................Henry Kissinger (1923-2023)

But Chinese civilization has the overpowering beauty of the wholly other, and only the wholly other can inspire the deepest love and the profoundest desire to learn ..........................................Joseph Needham (1900-1995)

... ...............The three Chinese inventions (navigation compass, printing, gunpowder) have provided an extraordinary impetus to the development of European civilization............................Sir Walter Henry Medhurst (1822 - 1885)

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