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you invest. This is a high-risk investment and you should I'm John Bess with Gordon Chang at Gordon G. Chang, my colleague and co-host and friend.

Nepotism. Kroniism. colleague and co-host and friend nepotism cronyism we know them well from

revelations over the decades in the United States and in our European allies

usually it's associated with bad government. It can be associated however with communism, surprisingly. And I welcome Charles Burton and

the McDonnell Lorry Institute to help me understand something of what I've been reading most recently about cronyism and nepotism in the Chinese Communist Party from General Secretary to General Secretary.

In other words, all the decades since 47, 48, 49,

when the People's Republic of China conquered the nationalists and drove them out of the

country.

Cronyism and nepotism has dominated the conversation never more so than when they went on the

capitalism road the capitalism roaders. Charles a very good evening to you I like this

topic because it it's a family affair. For example, I'm told

that the original idea of neotism started with Deng's mousie daughter described to me as Deng Nahn.

This is early days of capital rotor and the epitome of it was Zhang's son, Zhang Mann Hung, who was not only a graduate

of Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, not only was hobnobbing and partying with Mr Gates when he ran Microsoft, but was known so prominently

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