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Yasheng Huang: prediction

8 Mar 2023 Conversations with Tyler Yasheng Huang on the Development of the Chinese State

“I have the prediction that Xi’an is going to give, and I think the economic side is going to win rather than the political side.”

— Yasheng Huang

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Speaker
Yasheng Huang
Attribution
Verified speaker
Claim type
prediction
Recorded
8 Mar 2023
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

Transcript context

…Do you have a prediction? I have the prediction that Xi’an is going to give, and I think the economic side is going to win rather than the political side. It’s not automatic. It’s not the view that economics automatically advances political progress. It is also because of a lack of political progress, the regime tends to make mistakes. It is those mistakes that will have a bigger educational effect on the Chinese middle class, on university students in how they think about whether or not the current political system is viable and desirable. I have three final questions, all about you. First, how was it that you decided to come to the United States?…

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