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The mainland Chinese tend to take a Chinese mainland point of view on controversial issues, and the Taiwanese take another the Taiwanese viewpoint.
— Jimmy Wales
Tags: take, controversial, point-of-view, view

Other Quotes by "Jimmy Wales"

While I'm optimistic about the direction the world is headed, generally, I think there is a need for constant vigilance and pressure on repressive governments.
— Jimmy Wales
Tags: direction, pressure, think, world
There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.
— Jimmy Wales
Tags: closed, too, approach, big
Almost anything is better than three network TV outlets completely controlling the national discourse with their nightly broadcasts. We've moved a long way from that, and that's important.
— Jimmy Wales
Tags: important, way, better, long
My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.
— Jimmy Wales
Tags: walk, you, freedom, good
People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia. It's like hating kittens.
— Jimmy Wales
Tags: free, people, hate, time
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