The Mayor Economy in China

I think a part of the problem with the argument, the cultural argument used to be framed, the Asian values, framing of it was the kind of positive, unchanging Asian values. It's not nonsense. Of course, it deserved to be. But if you think in terms of gravity or inertia, right, culture history, it kind of, it limits the rate of change possible in an amount of time but it doesn't make change either impossible or more not desirable. And like you, I do believe that there is a set of values toward which we should all be moving in and toward which every Chinese person I know wants, eventually, to move.

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