Beijing

“They're calling it a field trip because Tim Cook is going, Larry Fink, Stephen Schwartzman.”

“A couple of months ago, they caught Putin and Xi in Beijing talking privately when they thought that nobody was listening and the microphones were on. And this was amazing, because what were Putin and Xi talking about in private? They didn't talk about Ukraine…”

“In 96, I led a trade delegation for President Clinton to Beijing. I met with the Premier of China. Jung Zemin and Zhu Rongji, the number two, the head of finance, because they were making videotapes from people holding up video cameras in theaters. And they we…”

“Same thing on October eighth when Beijing announced that they were going to put a worldwide export license on any product that had .1% of Chinese rare earths in it, which would have ground the Western trading system to a halt.”

“In his view, the their conflict between Beijing and Taipei is not imminent and not inevitable, and that's kind of my view.”

“Look, I'm not saying that the Chinese won't move on Taiwan. I just think that the idea that they're just kind of one day, you're going to start to see the Chinese, ah, ships, Navy, Air Force, ah, landing on Taiwan. If you talk to most military people, they say…”

“And one thing that is not widely known is that the single most cited paper in all of science is a paper on deep learning from 10 years ago, from 2015, and it came out of Beijing.”

“Today you go to Beijing, all their buses are electric. All the two-wheelers are electric. 54% of the cars that they're buying are electric. All the thermal power plants, the coal-fired power plants have been taken far away from Beijing. And all the polluting i…”

“One of the things you notice when you go to, you know, Beijing or Shanghai these days is that it's a lot less polluted and a lot quieter than it was 10 years ago if you went there. And part of the reason is because you see so many EVs, electric buses, and Ther…”

“So the indoors in most huts around the world is typically 10 times more polluted than Beijing or New Delhi outdoor.”

“I think one of the big theses that I have learned in this traveling is that which is happening among emerging markets among themselves is more shared in many cases than their compatriots in Silicon Valley or even Beijing.”

“There is such a difference between first, second, third, fourth, fifth tier city in China, a much bigger difference than in the U S from state to state. I can take a state in the Midwest, compare it to New York or California. And that difference is far less th…”

“There's actually stories about VCs who were able to catch some really fantastic companies in China that were targeting more like second, third, fourth tier cities. By literally just talking to waiters and waitresses and asking them, those who were working in B…”

“Well, you know, we should have never allowed in, in July of, when Beijing was awarded by five votes, by the way, awarded the Olympics.”

“If you are there and you are supporting the Olympics, you're supporting Beijing, this is the biggest propaganda story China will have.”

“Those items that got the asterisk then became purchased 13 to 20% more frequently. So what did the asterisk represent? It wasn't what we normally see when there are little asterisks next to items on the menu, like this is a specialty of the house, or this is w…”

“So in practical terms, if you're sitting in Beijing or Shanghai right now, you're not able to get on a half a dozen information sources, news sources, data sources that you could have three years ago.”

“Because unlike hardware, the, an internet service company doesn't just have to operate at scale. It also has to implement an enormous number of controls that Beijing demands over Over certain kinds of public speech, whether it's monitoring or censorship or pro…”

“So for example, in Beijing, even if you do have a personal driver just by sheer law, based off your license plate, there is one weekday every single week where that car is not allowed to drive.”

“A lot of people talk about Jingdong because they can do same-day delivery with a, within a handful of hours, sometimes as quick as four hours, within a large city like Beijing.”

“I think Silicon Valley will continue to play an important role in the tech ecosystem. However, I do think in the future, you will actually see the tech ecosystem be a triangle between Silicon Valley, Beijing, and Bangalore. I don't think it will, it'll no long…”