Beijing is my favorite city in China.

Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.

I'm confident I can take the gold in Beijing.

My Beijing jersey means more to me than any of them.

Beijing has a history of ignoring the rules. It takes pride in it.

Badminton in Beijing is huge - it's one of their top three sports.

I need to open a restaurant, a big soul food restaurant in Beijing!

Beijing has shown how to tackle air pollution by using smog towers.

It took years, honestly, to deal with the disappointment of Beijing.

Most descriptions make Beijing sound overbuilt: not a blade of grass left.

For me, my Beijing jersey will be the jersey that I will retire here in China.

All those places that I've played at is a preparation for me to come to Beijing.

Will Beijing really send out the army to suppress our protests? Never say never.

Cities really are mental conditions. Beijing is a nightmare. A constant nightmare.

In Beijing, we talk about air purifiers the way that teenage boys talk about cars.

When you live in Beijing for a while, you gain a finely tuned understanding of air.

Beijing has a glut of charming and traditional or brash and luxurious places to stay.

I have bronze in Beijing, silver in London, and now gold in Rio. It is the perfect story.

Beijing residents joke that to get a free smoke all they have to do is open their windows!

I'm optimistic Hong Kong will achieve universal suffrage - no matter the attitude of Beijing.

My approach to gymnastics in Beijing was heavily based on the amount of difficulty I could do.

I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.

Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.

Beijing would indeed consider vetoing any American effort to sanction Iran at the Security Council.

Beijing's imperial reach extends far and wide, from Taiwan and Xinjiang to the South China Sea and beyond.

China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley.

So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company.

Beijing was a huge slap in the face, and it forced me to look at myself. I have to realise that this is my life.

Beijing is an example of [families were displaced for the Olympics]. Something like 10,000 families were moved out.

Beijing is a place where you can go and try on all kinds of hats. It's also a place where you can hide really easily.

I have a lot of bitter memories from Beijing. Hopefully, we can erase those memories and bring the gold back to Japan.

I went to China for a brief working visit, and I thought that Shanghai was interesting, but Beijing totally grabbed me.

The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.

Once I became interested in China, I flew to Beijing in 1996 to spend half a year studying Mandarin. The city stunned me.

I had a good chance when I went to Beijing and the guy who beat me, I'd beaten him three weeks before and he went on to win silver.

But my comedy hero was Stephen Chow. His deadpan comedy, all the stuff he wrote like 'From Beijing with Love,' it's incredibly funny.

Coming to Beijing, throughout all of what has happened and the success I have gained, I look at it as I was just fortunate and blessed.

So Mandarin, I picked it up, I spent a year in Beijing studying but then when you don't use it, languages, you just kinda forget it all.

I was born in Beijing and raised in England and America. I studied political science in college and film in graduate school in New York.

In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.

I came back [to Beijing ] because that's the only time I had an excuse to come back, or otherwise I would never have a reason to come back.

As a student in Beijing in 1996, I sometimes marveled at the sheer obscurity of the movies that somehow made it onto pirated discs in China.

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

I used to see Estee Lauder's ads everywhere in the subways of Beijing, and I thought how wonderful it would be if the model on them was myself!

Ask yourself: if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now.

Beijing is on the move in Africa - using aid, diplomacy, weapons sales and Chinese ex pats in a bid to become the preeminent power in the region.

I know my Beijing medal has been a watershed moment in the history of Indian boxing, but personally speaking, I would like to better it in London.

The Olympics brought a lot of development to Beijing, but I don't see that there have been any changes to human rights as a result of the Olympics.

If I could have played in the qualifying rounds for the Beijing Olympics, the result could have changed. India would have booked the Olympics berth.

Although the general security situation for the Beijing Olympics remains stable, we still face the challenges of terrorism, separatism and extremism.

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