It is August 17th, 2021. The speaker at the podium is Xi Jinping, the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and one of the most powerful men in the solar system, ever.
I welcome Andrew Collier, the author of China's Technology War: Why Beijing Took Down Its Tech Giants, published in 2022.
It's important here to note that we have the perspective of three years on from Andrew's observations in ‘22. He features this moment because it is the theme of Xi Jinping's reforms with the economy, with ideology, and with his own party; he introduces his definition of the term “common prosperity.”
Andrew is very careful. Rhetorical questions can now be, in part, answered. I turn to the fact that he’s writing a new book, Empire of Dust, about the Chinese economy, as well. But we're reflecting here on common prosperity, because that is part of the story of what happened to Chinese tech innovation that was roaring ahead with Alibaba, Tencent, Didi, and all the start ups, until…
What was “common prosperity,” and how did it serve Xi Jinping to emphasize it in 2021?
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China’s Technology War: Why Beijing Took Down Its Tech Giants by Andrew Collier on Amazon
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