Erik Prince

And then they start recovering from that, and then they get what's called the cultural revolution in the late 60s, which kind of started at the university level.

And if you see woke culture in America, imagine that.

But now you have armed woke gangs that are arresting people writ large and taking any of the –

Intelligentia, professors, mid-level professionals that are not sufficiently communist and manic are getting sent away or executed or worse.

And that finally dies down in the 70s.

And Mao is still alive.

Deng Xiaoping took over after Mao dies.

And Deng Xiaoping... So there was kind of a buffer period of about two years, I think.

And...

Deng is the one that started opening up China.

And the first trip was to Singapore, which is basically Han Chinese, but on freedom in Singapore, because Singapore went from a lousy fishing village in the 1940s, right at the tip of the Malay Peninsula, right next to the Straits of Malacca, a natural shipping choke point,

And they went from, like I said, a lousy fishing village to having enormous economic development.

Deng said, we want to be like that.

And so that leads to the opening up of China for business.

I think he called it communism or socialism with Chinese characteristics.

So that leads to this massive development of the economy of China.

And they use that leverage to pivot countries away from recognizing Taiwan to recognizing the CCP.

And when he's talking about Jack Ma was a high school English teacher.

and he builds this company called Alibaba, which becomes the Amazon market

massively successful all across China, a true unicorn.