PREVIEW: #PRC: #OLYMPICS: From a conversation with colleague Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of the new book, "WILD RIDE: A Short History of the Opening and Closing of the Chinese Economy," re the bizarre decisions by the CCP to put the best foot forward to v
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 3 February 2024
⏱️ 3 minutes
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https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Ride-history-opening-closing/dp/173942431X
1900 Beijing
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| 0:00.0 | Like some kind of Pizza Ninja, Domino's are slicing their prices. |
| 0:05.0 | Domino's Price Slice. |
| 0:07.0 | Small pizzas now 8 quid, medium now 10 quid, and large now 12 quid. |
| 0:12.0 | Yet we're making cuts too. |
| 0:14.0 | In 11th of February 24, minimum delivery spend, charges and areas may apply. |
| 0:18.0 | Tous and see see Domino's dot code. |
| 0:20.0 | UK. This is John Batchelor, speaking with Anne Stevenson Yang. |
| 0:24.0 | Her new book, Wild Ride, a short history of the opening and closing of the Chinese economy, |
| 0:29.5 | covers the period from the 1980s until the COVID of 2020 and experiences in China traveling |
| 0:38.9 | there working there working and going back and forth over the years. The vision we get is a Chinese |
| 0:47.6 | miracle in parts, first decade, second decade through the fifth decade, and an opening and closing of the Chinese |
| 0:55.3 | economy, which is the subtitle, a short history of the opening and closing. |
| 1:01.6 | Inside all of this, Anne describes the moment that China prepared for the 2008 Olympics. |
| 1:07.5 | This is right before the great financial crisis, 2008 and 2009, in which it prepared a city |
| 1:15.0 | to put on its best face oddly and here's Ann describing how annoying it was to deal with that while living there and Stevenson Yang |
| 1:24.8 | wild ride is the book. You know it's just this Chinese idea that the that the whole |
| 1:31.9 | country is is your, that you have to present the best face on. |
| 1:36.7 | Even the word for China in Chinese is my country. And they feel that foreigners visiting are visitors to their home and |
| 1:47.3 | should be impressed but it was pretty darn annoying to live there in the in the run up to the Olympics. They kept on for example |
| 1:55.7 | Beijing would would steal rain from the neighboring provinces by shooting |
| 2:01.0 | some chemical into the clouds to make it rain so that the sky would be clear and |
| 2:06.2 | you know for Hubei right next door which is a farming province they were hopping mad because |
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