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"Foreign troops may be able to win a war in a place, but they can hardly win the peace. Hard lessons have been learned from what has happened in the Middle East and Afghanistan."

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, talking to reporters at a news conference with UK Prime Minister David Cameron at the Foreign Office in central London

"When you have an operation that goes on for months, costs billions of dollars, where the United States is providing two-thirds of the troops ... I would say that's hostilities."