How American and Chinese values shaped the coronavirus response | Huang Hung

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🗓️ 8 May 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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To combat COVID-19, countries have enforced city-wide shutdowns, stay-at-home orders and mask mandates -- but the reaction (and adherence) to these rules has differed markedly in the East and West. In conversation with TED's head of curation Helen Walters, writer and publisher Huang Hung sheds light on how Chinese and American cultural values shaped their responses to the outbreak -- and provides perspective on why everyone needs to come together to end the pandemic. (Recorded April 16, 2020)

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and Dajanihaha. It's Elise Hu from TED Talks Daily. The U.S. and China are the world's two global superpowers right now. But the way our two countries have addressed the same virus went in drastically different ways. In today's talk, Ted's head of curation, Helen Walters,
0:22.9	chats with the writer and publisher Huang Hung,
0:25.5	who's considered the Oprah of China
0:27.6	to better understand the differences
0:29.3	between eastern and western pandemic responses
0:31.8	without judgment.
0:33.3	And they discuss a realistic look
0:35.1	at what's ahead for U.S. Chinese relations.
0:37.8	Stick around, and you'll learn some cool Chinese slang, too.
0:43.6	Huang, it's so good to see you.
0:45.3	Thank you for joining us.
0:46.5	How's your 2020 been?
0:48.4	My 2020 started totally normal.
0:51.4	In January, I went to Paris, did my interview for the fashion week
0:58.3	there, came back to Beijing on January 22nd and finding things a little bit tense because
1:06.2	there were a lot of rumors. Having lived through SARS, I wasn't that concerned. And on the 23rd,
1:16.6	I had a friend of mine from New York come to my house who had a flu and we had dinner together.
1:23.0	And another friend who came, who left the next day for Australia for vacation on an airplane.
1:30.4	So we were not taking this terribly seriously until there was a lockdown.
1:37.5	And we've seen that echo around the world.
1:39.6	I think still some people find it hard to understand the magnitude of some of the measures that China took.
1:44.8	I mean, what else are we missing about China's response in all of this?
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