Robert Pape

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2,835 appearances 10 recordings 4 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 30 Jun

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This was not a short thing.

Five weeks.

1979.

And what we did is we went, started in Hong Kong.

We went to, it's called Canton.

That's not the Chinese name, but that's the Americanization of it.

And then we basically went to

Multiple cities, just like I did here, and my presentation shows I have the before and after here.

And Shenzhen is like unbelievable.

It was just a little fishing village back then.

And what we did is with these 30 economists, I was there with them in the morning.

We toured the shop floor in the afternoon.

We'd spend time with all the leaders here and all the stats and so forth that they wanted to collect because they wanted to know, could China change?

That was the big issue here at the time.

Well, I started to go back in 2012.

Now, 2012, this is after the Olympics.

You're talking about they don't show you the best.

Well, this was during the air apocalypse.

This is after the Olympics.

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