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3 Dec 2025 Conversations with Tyler Dan Wang on What China and America Can Learn from Each Other
“US, I think, in pandemic, everyone did terribly, but US got the vaccines, got them quickly, way ahead of schedule, and did certainly much better than China.”
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- 3 Dec 2025
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…I agree. On that, US overperformed. China is miserable at the bottom of the barrel. They even had the Pfizer contract and wouldn’t even use those vaccines. They used their own inferior vaccines because they didn’t have a society of lawyers who would go crazy suing everyone. US, I think, in pandemic, everyone did terribly, but US got the vaccines, got them quickly, way ahead of schedule, and did certainly much better than China. Here’s where I want to be a little bit more of a financialized Wall Street person to say, shouldn’t we look a little bit at the ratios and what did we get out of so much spending? The US spends so much on so many things and gets so little that we have the Second Avenue subway costing something like eight times per mile than Madrid and Paris.…
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