- Flew
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
By 1979, Chinese people were poorer, on average, than North Koreans. I mean, your average per-capita income in China that year was one third of sub-Saharan Africa's.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Central Propaganda Department is the highest-ranking censorship agency in China. And it has control over everything from the appointment of newspaper editors to university professors to the way that films are cut and distributed.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a deep underlying unpredictability to life that is thrilling. In China, my wife would say you go out to buy toilet paper, and you come back, and something interesting or revealing or funny happened on the way.
- Nov 07, 2020
I can tell you, going out to buy toilet paper in the U.S. is a completely predictable experience.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a tradition in the history of dissent in authoritarian countries of a certain kind of dissident, and their form of dissent is to live their lives as normally as possible.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a reason the Chinese government is very concerned about Ai Weiwei. It's because he has all of these ingredients in his life that allow him to attract enormous attention across a very broad spectrum of the population.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
On some level, there's a limit to what the government really worries about when it comes to a guy like Ai Weiwei, who's talking to a limited audience of people. He's talking to people who more or less already agree with him.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a national ambition, a collective, in a sense, political ambition, which I think is the thing we see from far away. That's the fact that China's building roads and airports and extending its reaches out into the East China Sea and the South China Sea, and in a way that's putting it into some tension with its neighbors.
- Overseas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent years overseas. I spent 11 years abroad.
- Hampshire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Immigration, of course, in New Hampshire is - it's not something that you see every day. It's not like talking about it in Texas, where people have a much more explicit sense of it.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
Donald Trump has a mantra of despair, of loss. He says we don't have victories anymore. We used to have victories, but we don't. And he says the American dream is dead.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you go back all the way to the 1920s, filmmakers in Hollywood changed the identity of villains from German to Russian.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a docudrama that was made, called 'The Death Of A Princess,' which was about a true story in Saudi Arabia. It was about a public execution for adultery. And when the movie was aired on British television, the Saudi government threatened to cut off oil exports and to cut off diplomatic relations.
- Reality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's a tendency, and it's an understandable tendency, to imagine that China makes decisions out of a grand strategy. The reality is that I think China today is operating, most of all, based on its domestic needs.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020