Karl Gerth, “China: Up Close and Personal” (Open Agenda, 2021)

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Introduction

00:00 • 5min

2

How I Met My Father, My Mother, My Grandmother, My Father

05:22 • 3min

3

Do You Work on Your Chinese?

08:20 • 3min

4

What Is Modern China?

11:31 • 5min

5

Why Are There So Many People in China?

16:19 • 4min

6

What Is China?

19:56 • 3min

7

What Is China?

22:48 • 3min

8

Is the Chinese Government Trying to Lower the Transaction Costs?

25:58 • 3min

9

The Chinese in the Contemporary World

28:46 • 4min

10

What Are the Forces That Made You Choose?

32:31 • 3min

11

Is There a Change in Policy?

35:14 • 5min

12

Did China Jump Into Cars?

40:15 • 1min

13

Why Would China Want to Join WTO?

41:26 • 6min

14

The Chinese Automobile Industry Is Taking on a Life of Its Ownnd

46:57 • 4min

15

The Wealth Creation Movement in the Reform Era

51:07 • 4min

16

I'm a Poor Person, I've Made Bad Choices

55:10 • 4min

17

Are You Better Off Than You Were Four Years Ago?

58:53 • 3min

18

Are You Afraid of the Economy?

01:01:57 • 2min

19

Is the Environment a Problem in China?

01:03:48 • 4min

20

Where Does the Environment Rate in China?

01:08:16 • 2min

21

Are We Too Locked Into This?

01:10:45 • 5min

22

Is the Eu a Zero Sum Game?

01:15:52 • 2min

23

Is There a Sensational Consensus in China?

01:18:08 • 2min

24

What Is the Real Goal of China?

01:19:53 • 3min

25

Is There Something More Than That?

01:23:08 • 3min

26

Is China Just a Bunch of Lazy Guys?

01:25:49 • 4min

27

I'm Afraid I'm a Betting Man.

01:29:26 • 3min

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The Mechanisms for Implementing Political Change

01:32:16 • 5min

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The Pros and Cons of Democracy

01:37:18 • 2min

30

What's Your Fearless Prognostication?

01:39:21 • 3min

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China Is Corrupt, Is Very Corrupt a Place

01:42:08 • 4min

32

China, I've Got Incredibly Bad Options in Frontf Me, Right?

01:46:08 • 3min

33

What's Going to Happen in the Three River Gorges?

01:49:15 • 2min

34

What Do You Want to Do Now?

01:51:08 • 2min

35

Is There a Way Out?

01:53:13 • 3min

36

What Kind of Measures Do You Think You Can Take?

01:56:34 • 3min

37

What Do You Mean by Policy?

01:59:23 • 5min

38

Is China a Foil for Sustainable Growth?

02:03:55 • 5min

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Is It a Dangerous Profession?

02:08:26 • 4min