Quotable

"No one in this world will try to contain China and no one in this world is capable of containing China."

Ruan Zongze, vice-president and senior fellow at the China Institute of International Studies, talking about the United States' new strategic pivot to the Asia-Pacific region at an event organized by the All-China Journalists' Association on Tuesday. He said some countries have wrongly deduced that the US will encourage them to challenge the sovereignty and territorial integrity of China. "This is a misjudgment on their part."