Keyu Jin

In China, it's kind of a noble thing to show that you're working hard and that you're number one or that you're top of the class and you want to display it and you want to let everybody know.

But in the U.S., everybody's like secretly doing it.

That's the right, I would say, the right kind of competition or the efficient kind of competition.

I feel that in the Chinese education system,

It was not necessarily efficient because it kind of frames you and molds you to be thinking in a certain way what's been taught to you.

You don't have the bandwidth or the time or creative freedom to be more creative and to think outside the box there.

It's just the box.

You maximize the box and that's it.

You don't actually know what's outside of the box and you never actually go there.

That's the bad part of Chinese competition.

And when I got to the U.S., the high school teachers were asking us to question authority, to question text.

I'm like, wow, really?

You can do that?

So I started asking why.

Deng Xiaoping was by far our most pragmatic leader.

And I think everybody's grateful to Deng Xiaoping.

My father's generation would not have seen

that amount of prosperity and peace and opportunity without Deng Xiaoping.

It started in the late 1970s when Deng Xiaoping came out with this open up and reform mandate.

And it was very tough.