Keyu Jin

to be a leader in technology, but then the financial system is not liberalized.

It's highly regulated, but there's also intervention.

Even if we look back at the French civil law versus the English common law, well, the former protects creditors and the latter is more friendly towards debtors, which gives them more breathing space to innovate, but also to fail and to innovate again.

And that makes a big difference.

So it's all about a spectrum, right?

But you can't have it both ways.

And the power that the US has.

Well, it's funny that we're talking about this now, because I was able to go to the US on a scholarship to an American high school because the US at that time was open arms, all open arms towards international students.

They kind of wanted to be the country that...

was going to educate the future leaders of the world and their elitist institutions like Harvard was really going to be, you know, they're the center of the world.

So they welcomed students like me and many, many others to be exchange students, to study in the U.S.

And we thought, wow, we've never seen a more generous country.

And I was able to go to high school, an American high school, and live with an American family, which was, wow, can I say, a big change from China, not only because I was plucked from the Communist Youth League party and then straight to supporting their Democratic campaign because the host family was running for state attorney general in New York.

So I was kind of

going to these conventions and handing out flyers and trying to get votes.

And I don't know, in Chinatown or something.

But it was so interesting to see that's how the system worked.

But in the course of doing that, I realized that people had a very simplistic understanding about China.

And that's probably, even when I was 14, I decided that one thing I wanted to do was to

dispel some of these deep myths about China, because the China that they knew, and again, it was all the three Ts back in the late 1990s, Taiwan, Tibet, and Tiananmen Square.