Richard Werner
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4,694 appearances
9 recordings
3 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 22 May
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And so I was always surprised that Deng Xiaoping, who was behind this and did this really well, and he's a good manager, very humble.
He was always a humble person, not this narcissistic type that will take policies that selfish, but really bad for ordinary people.
He was not like this.
He was a good leader in many ways, as far as I can tell.
But he also is the one who took the one child policy.
And we know that that wasn't a good policy.
also if you think about it it's a sort of policy that you can see western decision makers uh western leaders liking like i mean there's lots of western leaders in history starting from napoleon uh talking about oh if china you know wakes up and then they keep growing population growth and china will take over the world and you get this western sort of paranoia
You know, and to impose a policy that, oh, only one child is allowed, sounds very much like a Western idea to me.
That's always the sense I had.
Like, why would a Chinese leader, particularly a high growth leader, the high growth model means also you want high population growth.
Population growth is good.
You want people to have children.
You want to educate them well, because that's what leads to growth.
Growth comes from productivity, technology, new ideas.
100% of ideas come from people.
We need people.
Of course, now they're trying to replace that with AI, but that has its severe limitations and risk and dangers.
So you want more people normally, but Deng Xiaoping imposed this one-child policy.
Then I looked into how did this happen?
And it turns out that it was early on when he was implementing the high growth system from Japan.
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