“It is too soon to say.”

— Zhou Enlai

Often, though disputedly, thought to refer to the significance of the French Revolution of 1789, it has been argued that he was actually indicating the French protests of 1968, in "Zhou’s cryptic caution lost in translation" by Richard McGregor in Financial Times (10 June 2011) http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/74916db6-938d-11e0-922e-00144feab49a.html#ixzz1PDuP8ZzG.

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