647. China Is Run by Engineers. America Is Run by Lawyers.

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Thanks for that, and now on to today's episode. If you are an American, How do you think about the relationship between the US and China? You may see China as a political and economic bully and a thief of American intellectual property. You may see China as a hardcore surveillance state, internally and externally, maybe a propaganda state, too.

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