@samuelszuchan: On January 20, 1989, a 33-year-old Chinese professor walked down Bush Street in San Francisco. George H.W. Bush had been sworn in as the 41st president that morning. The professor noted homeless men sleeping in the doorways and wrote it down. His name was Wang Huning. He was a visiting scholar from Fudan University in Shanghai, five months into a six-month fellowship arranged by the American Political Science Association. He covered more than thirty cities and close to twenty universities, sat in on seminars at Brookings and Heritage, worked briefly inside Congress, and attended the Bush inauguration. He visited the Coca-Cola headquarters in Atlanta. At Berkeley, he observed hundreds of homeless people living in rag tents in a place called People's Park. In Belmont, Massachusetts, he watched township-level self-rule. In 1991, he published the travelogue, America Against America. His central argument was structural: individualism is the single root of both American vitality and American fragmentation. One machine, two outputs. The same force producing innovation was dissolving family, neighborhood, and common purpose. Agree or not, this mindset explains quite a bit about China’s posture. Wang Huning now sits at the number four position on the Politburo Standing Committee, the seven-man body at the top of the Chinese Communist Party. The frame he built in 1989 is now four chairs from Xi Jinping.

hairy :

Dialectical thinking in practice

James Heng :

Support

Joseph Stalin :

jondoe :

are you AI?

VividDark :

please make a video with more in-depth on his analysis

Patroli 🕶 :

Wan Huning is right american individual values would broke china relatively very recent prosperity. China for 2500 years culture is "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few". They don't have the right stuff to combat all bad individualism side. So they must choose other less traveled road.

MTMY :

Can you summarise further what is inside that book in your next video?

KBII :

Engaging analysis.

HlebYakimovich :

For someone who grew up in a conformist society, where "what people will say" means much more than what you really want, it's a completely natural reaction, the fear of not being the same as everyone else.

sssz :

didn't you wear glasses

Deja :

i like your stories. next time review your vid. the audio was alittle to "low."

Mark Taurus :

Interesting. Can you do more analysis on this

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Jhon :

He realized that the policy was not effective and that it was harming the company's prosperity and costing jobs, so he repealed the laws he had introduced. As a result, China no longer uses those policies.

ผักกาด :

He,Wong, is a genius

Ave Christus Max :

love your videos

Jerry :

It doesn't explain EVERYTHING about China's posture towards the United States though. But it explains a lot.

大角鼠 :

他真的是一个传奇人物

mdjuan_sp :

he is smart

The Blunt Experience :

hmmm.......

Dom :

Damn this is interesting

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lucky :

The conclusion is incorrect. The emphasis on family, collectivism, and common prosperity is a crucial part of China's millennia-old traditional culture, and this is why China chose a socialist system with high similarities to its own. This doesn't originate from a book by Wang Huning, who was also a key official under Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao. His role was to summarize and theorize the strategic ideas of the top leaders he served, such as the Three Represents during Jiang Zemin's era, the harmonious society during Hu Jintao's era, and the Belt and Road Initiative and common prosperity during Xi Jinping's era. These ideas did not originate from Wang Huning; he was merely responsible for summarizing and theorizing them.