“I have been obsessed with the local cultures during my previous trips ...” — Nicolas Anelka Quote

I have been obsessed with the local cultures during my previous trips to the likes of Korea Republic, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand and Chinese Hong Kong and Macau.

This is football, you always have to compete to be able to play. When you're at a big club, it's like that.

For me the most important is on the pitch, I don't like too much speaking in the press. I will do the minimum. I will do it because I have to do it.

Nowhere is the same as England and that's why so many players want to come over here. That is why I would like to finish my career over here.

When I left Arsenal I never said I didn't like England. I was very young and my problems were all in my head.

I just need to focus on myself. I think nobody should focus on others, whether they actually have a problem with Chinese swimming or not.

I think because I was the first Chinese player to win a grand slam, people were thinking: 'She's not like normal people.'

If the United States wants access to Chinese, Indian or Vietnamese markets, we must get access to theirs. U.S. protectionism is very subtle but it is very much there.

The original communitarianism of Chinese Confucian society has degenerated into nepotism, a system of family linkages, and corruption, on the mainland. And remnants of the evils of the original system are still found in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and even Singapore.