Episode 503: Evan Osnos
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What Was Your Day-to-Day Life Like in China?
"It was a strange combination of both being welcoming and fundamentally very suspicious you know people would be oftentimes I think we would surprise a lot of Americans just how welcoming your average Chinese person will be if you encounter them," he says. "Because of generations of propaganda they had also been trained to remember that anybody who presents themselves as a foreign journalist is obviously a spy, determined on breaking China apart and driving you back into poverty" He writes about his time in China for the New Yorker over 10 years.
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