Keyu Jin

They thought about China, they thought about these three things.

And I was like, well, that's strange because that's not how I'm feeling in China with all this bidding for the Olympics before 2000 and all these buildings going up and down, all this excitement about joining the WTO, all these radical reforms that are taking place, and then all this effervescence that you feel in the air.

It's not GDP growth as numbers.

You actually see it.

This is really, you know, and they're describing China as if it was a place shredded with white terror.

And so I thought, hmm, that's interesting.

There's a big gap, big gap of understanding.

And even today, that many years later.

People know China a little bit more, but the sentiment hasn't profoundly changed.

Some variation of that.

I don't think to the same extent because there's Hollywood.

They can see daily American life, although it might not be totally realistic.

There was a huge amount of admiration of Hollywood.

U.S.

technology innovation, but also the American dream.

I think our newspapers, even though there's bias everywhere, is not focused only on reporting the really bad stuff and portraying a negative side.

I think these few years have been a little bit different, but so many students went to the U.S., right?

So many people traveled to the U.S.

And this is an interesting thing.

I've rarely met an American who has been to China and who still goes on about how bad China is.