29 October 2024
China Viewed from China
Robert Wright and journalist Peter Hessler, author of Other Rivers: A Chinese Education, discuss.
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In this video:
- Peter’s new book, Other Rivers: A Chinese Education
- Have Chinese people become less hostile to America?
- What Americans get wrong about China
- Why Peter thinks Covid didn’t come from a lab
- China’s transformative recent decades
- Respect for authority in Chinese culture
- Change in China between Peter’s two teaching stints there
- Why the Chinese political system may change dramatically
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