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I'm Kaiser Guo, and today I am at the Chicago Council for Global Affairs, where our good friends

here at the council have invited us to a small group live taping of the show.

With me here are my colleague Lizzie Lee, who hosts the excellent

Chinese language show Wall Street Today, Gene Yer Jir Jha, and the China Project's own live with Lizzie

Lee. And I'm at Shoshi interviews, academics and analysts and business leaders about China's finance,

about the economy, about business, about politics. If you haven't

already started watching it, it's just amazing. Lizzie did her doctorate in economics at MIT and went on

into media, mainly out of exasperation at the paltry choices that Chinese language viewers in the

diaspora have before them, like straight up party propaganda or Falun Gong or Guo and

Gwe.

You get your choice of these three, or Lizzie now.

You can take Lizzie.

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