“Since the election of Shinzo Abe as the new Japanese prime minister, b...” — Martin Jacques Quote

“Since the election of Shinzo Abe as the new Japanese prime minister, by reputation a fervent nationalist, relations between Japan and China have paradoxically improved a little.”

“Our leaders increasingly see fit to lecture the ethnic minorities on the need to integrate, including of course the need to speak English. What about the need, though, for Britain to integrate with the rest of the world?”

“After its defeat in the Second World War, Japan, unlike Germany, failed to show true contrition or give a fulsome apology, though it showered its neighbours, including China, with generous economic assistance. Only in 1995 did it finally offer an apology, but this was of the most limited and formulaic kind.”

“China rightly identified consumer Internet as important and moved to protect it, and we need to do the same in India.”

“In 1989, a lone and still-anonymous Chinese student stood unarmed in front of a Chinese tank and gave the world an enduring image of the determination of China's young to change their nation. He didn't text message the tank or share a video on YouTube.”

“People don't even know how hard it is to play in China. People think it is easy for the foreign players, but it is really not. It's difficult.”