"China's export of rare earth minerals has kept up with world demand for a long time. But this was realized at the price of a severely damaged environment and a great decrease in the reserves of non-renewable resources."

Gao Yunhu, an official with the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, commenting on a white paper issued on June 20 by China about its rare earth industry

"Today the House made history when both chambers of Congress officially and formally acknowledged the ugly and un-American nature of laws that targeted Chinese immigrants."

U.S. Congresswoman Judy Chu, commenting on a resolution unanimously passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on June 18 that formally expresses regret for the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and other legislation that discriminated against people of Chinese origin in the United States

"We look forward to the ever-increasing competitive power of the mainland. However, the mainland's main attractions for Taiwan are not only competitiveness. We hope that friends from the mainland can treat Taiwan with more understanding and consideration."

Hung Hsiu-chu, Vice Chairwoman of Taiwan's Kuomintang Party, calling on establishing a more positive and benign development model for cross-Straits ties at the Fourth Straits Forum in Xiamen, Fujian Province, on June 17

"There is no moral or economic justification for treating bus workers like second-class citizens. There is a clear precedent for rewarding bus workers for keeping London moving over the Olympics."

Peter Kavanagh, an official of Britain's largest union Unite, commenting on London bus drivers' possible strike in a dispute over extra payments for working during the capital's summer Olympic Games