Robert Pape
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Just imagine if that was St.
Louis.
This is Shenzhen.
Here's another example of what was a fishing village just a couple hours outside of Hong Kong on the Chinese side of the border.
Also, I was there in 1979.
Now, this is an industry leader.
This is where BYD is.
But notice the city.
It's not just electric vehicle manufacturing.
Look at the entire city of 10 million people, brand spanking new airports.
This is what we're missing.
China
It's not that China's catching up to America.
It's that we now need to catch up to China.
And it's not about inventing a single product.
You see, I think we think that, oh, as long as we have the latest single widget, we are ahead.
What China's doing is inventing new widgets and then diffusing them massively.
across whole sectors and regions.
They've uplifted about 50 to 100 million people in the last six years.
What have we done for our Rust Belt?