Randa Abdel-Fattah
speaker
3,221 appearances
41 recordings
9 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 8 Sep
Randa Abdel-Fattah’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This Chinese communist leader was eating barbecue and going full cowboy.
Deng went on to other U.S.
cities on his trip.
He encouraged American business people to invest in China, academics to collaborate on scholarship, and generally advocated for more exchanges between the countries.
When Deng looked at the economic model in America, he learned a lot.
And he wanted China to learn those lessons too.
Deng wants some of what he sees in America for his own people, the prosperity, the economic freedom.
But was there a way to do that within communist China?
If he moves too fast, he could upset members of his own party and be ousted.
Or it could embolden protests and plunge the nation into disarray, as it did under Mao.
How could he let some freedom trickle in without losing the architecture of a communist society?
He needed a bubble, a place where he could experiment with capitalism without letting the contagion loose.
In concert with other advisors as part of the economic reforms, Deng established something called special economic zones, spots where business and trade laws are a little more relaxed than the rest of the country.
In 1980, Deng and the party opened the first three special economic zones, one of which was Shenzhen, a small city on the coast near Hong Kong.
Why did Deng see Shenzhen as a good place to experiment with the idea?
Special economic zones would allow Deng to introduce the foreign market in these little city laboratories where market reforms could be tested.
The idea was that you could mitigate state regulation and taxes, and the zones would attract foreign businesses.
Deng's bet was that this city would help chip away at socialist structures and begin the capitalistic transformation he dreamed of.
The city received loans from Chinese banks, new roads were built, housing, water, power.
A brand new Shenzhen was on its way.
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