Deng Xiaoping

“Even if we have a Deng Xiaoping-like figure, China might still have a lot of dysfunctions, because I would say that Deng Xiaoping introduced a lot of the dysfunctions that carry over to Xi Jinping.”

“He fired two of his handpicked successors and almost fired his third one Jiang Zemin, who ended up running the country.”

“When Deng Xiaoping began economic reforms in China in 1978, the government was practically more like the entire economy. It, the government's share in the economy, if you look at employment and other things, over the next 3040 years, fell to about 30%.”

“No, but there's reasonable grounds to believe. that we are in the, we have reached the takeoff stage. It's like China. So China, Deng Xiaoping came in in 1979. Till 1991, nineties, mid nineties, Tiananmen Square, there were doubts. But it was a silent revoluti…”

“I think Modi is a Deng Xiaoping.”

“The way he governed so I mean, well, it created certainly an economic miracle of the likes that, you know you know, maybe we've never, ever seen before. He pulled many people out of poverty.”

“Deng Xiaoping did sufficient reform to unleash the naturally entrepreneurial nature of the Chinese nation. Chinese nation after the Amer, after Americans is the most entrepreneurial culture in the world.”

“In the 19, when the great Chinese economic reformer, Deng Xiaoping, decided to open up the Chinese economy, the average Chinese was making two dollars a day, and today their economy is roughly the size of the US.”

“One of the world's first special economic zones was created in Shannon, which was very close to, you know, maybe 10, 15 miles from where I was born. Deng Xiaoping visited it and found this quite inspiring, and so decided to set up special economic zones in Chi…”