
“If this is how you treat your friends, no wonder you have so many enemies.”
On the Chinese government's policies towards Uighurs, the mainly Muslim minority living in Xinjiang in China's far west http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-china-blog-31018617 (7 May 2014)
“If this is how you treat your friends, no wonder you have so many enemies.”
Wisconsin Medical Society http://www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org/savant/kimpeek.cfm
“China deals with foreigners from afar only by treating them without discrimination”
Qianlong in 1780 . (Da Qing Gaozong Chun- huangdi shilu, 1964: 15018) a translation by Gang Zhao of Da Qing Gaozong Chunhuangdi shilu [The veritable record of the Qianlong emperor] (1964) 30 vols. Taipei: Huawen shuju.
Source: Zhao 2006 https://web.archive.org/web/20140325231543/https://webspace.utexas.edu/hl4958/perspectives/Zhao%20-%20reinventing%20china.pdf, p. 9.
“Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.”
Maxim 401
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Sir Thomas Munro, in his letter to the Governor-General Lord Hastings in 1817, quoted in "The Monarch musician"
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