Alice Han

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What Now? with Trevor Noah · Alice Han: Chinamaxxing · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

Yeah, it's honestly a cop-out answer, but both.

This is going to sound very wonky.

There was a great paper by a Chinese economist over a decade ago in which he has a framework that China is a regionally distributed authoritarian regime.

And what he means by that is that, yes, you have the central government, which historically in China has been the emperor.

There's a phrase in Chinese, which is that the mountains are high, but the emperor is far away.

And that suggests... Wait, say that again?

The mountains are high?

The mountains are high, but the emperor is far away.

And what it means by that is, yes, you have central command and the emperor, or in this case, the central government says you should do this.

These are the targets for semiconductor output.

This is what growth we want.

But local governments have a degree of latitude to interpret what that means.

And at the same time, they're also experimenting.

So China from the 80s onwards had, as you probably know, these special economic zones, in particular the eastern provinces like Shanghai, Shenzhen.

They are experimenting with innovating, being pro-business, bringing more private market entrance into the economy.

And that was really the responsible driver for growth in China.

That cannot exist without a central government is willing to give a degree of latitude to the local government.

So yes, China is like a strict Asian parent.

And I know this from my own personal experience, but there's a degree of... You have Asian parents?

Asian parents.

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