As translated by Asian language professors Larry and Qin Herzberg, the three proverbs quoted above mean the following, respectively: “People often cannot see their own shortcomings” “Anything can be ...

When Barack Obama journeyed to the Great Wall Wednesday, I was wondering if someone on his team, or the United States president himself, would come up with a Chinese saying or two to express his ...

The International Monetary Fund has placed China as the world’s largest economy as measured by purchasing power parity. Looking at the growing percentage of middle-class Chinese and corresponding ...

I just returned from hardship duty at the Aspen Institute/Fortune Brainstorm, an annual conference that brings together CEOs, venture capitalists, policy wonks, elected officials, movie stars (Glenn ...

In a tweet posted on the eve of the summit, the president’s daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump quoted what she called a Chinese proverb: “Those who say it can not be done, should not interrupt those ...

On the eve of her father's meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Ivanka Trump seemed to be calling on her inner Yoda as she tweeted: Neat quote. But it was the first daughter's attribution to ...

The day before the president held a historic meeting with North Korea's leader, Ivanka Trump tweeted a Chinese proverb in support of her father. Which Chinese proverb she was referencing remains to be ...

Confucius says Ivanka Trump made a proverbial social media gaffe. The president’s elder daughter fired off a celebratory message hours ahead of his historic summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.

The first daughter tweeted a saying that she said was ancient Chinese wisdom. Ivanka Trump is finding out that it is not wise to misattribute Chinese proverbs for fear of the wrath of Twitter. The ...