They didn't break that, but they have pretty good access to those people.

She actually, her image, subconsciously mocked that lineage.

So that's happening?

Okay.

It seems like an incredible story here on many fronts.

You're listening to the New Yorker Radio Hour.

Staff writer Evan Osnos is sitting in this week for David Remnick.

Welcome to the show. I'm Evan Osnos. I first went to work in China in 2005 as a reporter

for the Chicago Tribune. I was based in Beijing, a young reporter, still in my 20s, and I stayed for eight years.

And over that time, I watched China grow into a much more powerful country.

It hosted the Olympics.

It put the first Chinese woman into space.

And its economy became the world's second largest.

Since 2013, I've been back in the United States, based in Washington, and I've watched America grapple with China's new place in the world,

not always comfortably, particularly when it comes to its effect on our economy. Today we're going to

look at China from a few different angles. We're going to sit down with the dissident artist I Wei Wei Wei. And we're going to hear about a Chinese sci-fi blockbuster, which is the first of its kind. And we'll meet a young feminist who is struggling with China's Confucian values. But first, I met a journalist named Yuanan Zhang-jong last year at the Republican National Convention.

She was covering the convention for Tai Xin, which is a business magazine in Beijing.

And she was listening very closely to what Donald Trump had to say because he'd been talking in very tough terms about China's economic policy.

This includes stopping China's outrageous theft of intellectual property, along with their illegal

product dumping and their devastating currency manipulation.

They are the greatest currency manipulators ever.

I interviewed Yuananjiang at the convention, and now six months into the Trump administration, we met up again in Washington.

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