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01 / evaluation
“It’s more decentralized than the US’s. And I think more broadly, a big misunderstanding is really the relationship between Chinese people and authority.”
02 / evaluation
“The amount of waste of investment plowed into these companies that will ultimately just go under, but also the misallocation- … Ultimately, just go under, but also the misallocation of resources, because it’s led by the state, are some of the downsides, but I guess on balance, it’s been positive, because look at China’s internal combustion engine effort.”
03 / evaluation
“When I was doing my PhD at Harvard, people would say, “Oh, my parents say don’t work so hard.”
04 / evaluation
“Deng Xiaoping was by far our most pragmatic leader and I think everybody’s grateful to Deng Xiaoping.”
05 / evaluation
“If China were relatively successful economically, a huge part of the reason is by and large, it’s been meritocratic. That is changing somewhat now, but the only way that you have still that many poor people, especially a couple of decades back, still be in harmony with society, seeing all these rich people make tons of money and you’re still belonging to that lower stratum.”
06 / evaluation
“I feel that in the Chinese education system, it was not necessarily efficient because it frames you and molds you to be thinking in a certain way what’s been taught to you.”
07 / evaluation
“It goes from invention to production and commercialization and diffusion, diffusing technology throughout all parts of the economy. And on those two stages, I think that China has a unique advantage, even if it still can’t do the zero to one breakthroughs, because in the end, how much this technology is adopted by the countries and by the various parts of the economy is fundamentally crucial to how much productivity will be unleashed.”
08 / evaluation
“In China, if the coffee shop does well, everybody wants to open the same coffee shop. And I think, again, I’m sure we’re going to get to this, but there’s a lot of that kind of competition, which really drives the world sometimes crazy of replication.”