Peter Hessler on China

China's unusual because it's been, first of all, it's been successful in the last, you know, 30 years, pretty much. But it's also it's been there for so long. The party's been in power since 1949, right? And so you have, you know, even the leader of China, Xi Jinping, was born in that system. I mean, he doesn't remember anything before 1949, right?

There's So everybody is just it it just becomes part of who you are. Your expectation is that you deal with it. You find your, you know, your way to cope. Your expectation is not that you should have something different.

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