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Evan Osnos
American
Journalist
Born:
Dec 24
,
1976
Beijing
China
Chinese
Government
People
You
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Vladimir Putin was awarded an advanced degree by the St. Petersburg Mining Institute with the help of a dissertation that, as two Brookings researchers discovered, included sixteen stolen pages - and, remarkably, not a single set of quotation marks.
Evan Osnos
Degree
Single
Dissertation
Marks
Mining
Remarkably
Advanced
Putin
Institute
Discovered
Stolen
Sixteen
Quotation
Pages
Help
Researchers
Included
Awarded
Two
Set
Usually when you interview somebody for a number of hours, they'll say something that is self-aggrandizing or is a manipulation of the facts.
Evan Osnos
You
Somebody
Interview
Interview Somebody
Say
Something
Facts
Hours
Manipulation
Number
If you go back all the way to the 1920s, filmmakers in Hollywood changed the identity of villains from German to Russian.
Evan Osnos
You
Changed
Back
Way
Russian
Identity
Go
German
Hollywood
Villains
Filmmakers
There's a national ambition, a collective, in a sense, political ambition, which I think is the thing we see from far away. That's the fact that China's building roads and airports and extending its reaches out into the East China Sea and the South China Sea, and in a way that's putting it into some tension with its neighbors.
Evan Osnos
Political
Collective
Building
National
Ambition
Sense
Think
Way
Airport
Neighbors
East
Out
See
Some
Fact
Roads
Putting
Tension
South
Which
China
Far
Far Away
Sea
Away
Thing
Extending
In 1975, the collapse of a cascade of Chinese dams during a flood killed a hundred and seventy-one thousand people, but the event is rarely discussed, and the names of the victims are largely unrecorded today.
Evan Osnos
Today
People
Dams
Hundred
Collapse
Thousand
Rarely
Cascade
Names
Discussed
Victims
Chinese
Event
Flood
Largely
Donald Trump has a mantra of despair, of loss. He says we don't have victories anymore. We used to have victories, but we don't. And he says the American dream is dead.
Evan Osnos
Despair
Says
Dream
He
Dead
Loss
Trump
American
Donald
Donald Trump
American Dream
Anymore
Victories
Used
Mantra
When Richard Nixon came to Beijing in the winter of 1972, China was still in the throes of the Cultural Revolution, so it had a limited array of entertainment to provide.
Evan Osnos
Entertainment
Winter
Revolution
Richard Nixon
Nixon
Had
Limited
Array
Still
Came
Provide
Cultural
Beijing
China
Richard
By 1979, Chinese people were poorer, on average, than North Koreans. I mean, your average per-capita income in China that year was one third of sub-Saharan Africa's.
Evan Osnos
People
Year
One-Third
Koreans
Sub-Saharan
Were
Than
North
Africa
China
Chinese
Mean
Chinese People
Average
Poorer
Your
Income
Third
Being in a Chinese coal mine for 30 years is like an epic novel. It's tragic.
Evan Osnos
Mine
Like
Years
Tragic
Being
Chinese
Epic
Coal
Novel
There's a deep underlying unpredictability to life that is thrilling. In China, my wife would say you go out to buy toilet paper, and you come back, and something interesting or revealing or funny happened on the way.
Evan Osnos
Life
Funny
Buy
You
Wife
Back
Way
Paper
Say
Out
Would
Unpredictability
Something
Thrilling
Come
Underlying
Revealing
Go
Happened
China
Interesting
Toilet
Toilet Paper
Deep
There's a reason the Chinese government is very concerned about Ai Weiwei. It's because he has all of these ingredients in his life that allow him to attract enormous attention across a very broad spectrum of the population.
Evan Osnos
Life
Government
AI
Enormous
Broad
About
Allow
He
Attention
Attract
Concerned
Him
Because
His
Very
Chinese
Chinese Government
Ingredients
Across
Reason
Population
Spectrum
I spent years overseas. I spent 11 years abroad.
Evan Osnos
Spent
Abroad
Years
Overseas
It's worth being clear - you know, I think that the ideas that somebody like Richard Spencer endorses and that other members of the self-identified white nationalist groups endorse - those ideas really are repellent to most people.
Evan Osnos
You
People
Worth
Somebody
White
Think
Other
Spencer
Those
Members
Clear
Like
Ideas
Know
Most
Endorse
Nationalist
Being
Richard
Really
Groups
Immigration, of course, in New Hampshire is - it's not something that you see every day. It's not like talking about it in Texas, where people have a much more explicit sense of it.
Evan Osnos
Day
You
Every Day
People
Immigration
Sense
Every
See
About
Something
More
New
Like
Talking
Course
New Hampshire
Hampshire
Texas
Where
Explicit
Much
I think there's a tendency, and it's an understandable tendency, to imagine that China makes decisions out of a grand strategy. The reality is that I think China today is operating, most of all, based on its domestic needs.
Evan Osnos
Today
Needs
Reality
Strategy
Think
Out
Tendency
Most
Operating
Makes
Understandable
Domestic
Grand
China
Decisions
Based
Imagine
If you're going to have a book published in China, that means that you're going to be subject to in-house censorship at the publisher, and then also, of course, the government has an apparatus that is in charge of making sure that ideas that are considered disruptive or overly critical, that those don't get onto bookstore shelves.
Evan Osnos
Government
You
Book
Censorship
Considered
Bookstore
Those
Critical
Charge
Onto
Ideas
Also
Course
Sure
Making
Shelves
Overly
Subject
Get
Going
China
Then
Means
Apparatus
Published
Publisher
Disruptive
The problem is that in order to publish a book in mainland China, you have to agree to be subject to censorship. That's the nature of the system. I don't challenge that system on its face. It's their system. But as an author, I have a choice to make whether I'll participate or I won't.
Evan Osnos
Nature
You
Book
Problem
Censorship
Challenge
Face
Publish
System
Participate
Make
Subject
Author
Order
Whether
China
Choice
Agree
If you're trying to write about what the Chinese people are talking about, you can sometimes get a distorted picture if you go online and look at the conversation on social media.
Evan Osnos
You
Conversation
People
Sometimes
Social Media
Picture
Distorted
About
Online
Write
Look
Talking
Go
Get
Trying
Chinese
Social
Chinese People
Media
China believes that it has the rightful claim to a vast portion of the South China Sea, which is claimed by other countries.
Evan Osnos
Other
Other Countries
Claim
Claimed
Rightful
Vast
Countries
South
Which
China
Sea
Believes
Portion
If the economy can only provide a diminishing political dividend, Chinese leaders will encourage their people to feel pride and vigor in other ways.
Evan Osnos
People
Pride
Political
Will
Other
Ways
Diminishing
Only
Dividend
Leaders
Feel
Economy
Provide
Encourage
Chinese
Vigor
China doesn't have a single leader. It has - a first among equals is the president, and his name will probably be Xi Jinping, almost certainly.
Evan Osnos
Will
Leader
First
Single
President
Almost
Name
Equals
His
China
Certainly
Among
The United States, of course, in the late 19th century was extraordinarily corrupt.
Evan Osnos
Extraordinarily
Late
States
Corrupt
Course
Century
United
United States
China no longer has an ideology that makes any sense to them, but what they do have is great pride in the Chinese nation.
Evan Osnos
Great
Pride
Ideology
Nation
Sense
Great Pride
Longer
Makes
Any
China
Chinese
Them
More than four decades after Nixon met Mao, the relationship between the U.S. and China has reached a pivotal moment. To date, even as China has become more powerful and present in our lives, Americans have generally found it to be an unsatisfying 'enemy.'
Evan Osnos
Relationship
Enemy
Met
Become
Our
Our Lives
Nixon
More
Date
Generally
Powerful
Between
Reached
Than
Decades
American
After
Pivotal
China
Moment
Mao
Even
Found
Lives
Four
Present
The U.S. must differentiate between controversial assertions of power, like those in the South China Sea, and fair reflections of China's growing contribution to the world, such as the new banks.
Evan Osnos
World
Power
Those
Must
Between
New
Fair
Like
South
Reflections
Contribution
Controversial
Banks
China
Sea
Growing
Differentiate
Analysts, scholars, business people, diplomats, and journalists involved with China spend so much time questioning one another's biases and loyalties that they have even settled on two opposing categories: 'panda huggers' versus 'panda sluggers.'
Evan Osnos
Time
Business
People
Opposing
Analyst
Settled
Spend
Diplomats
Scholars
Journalists
Categories
Involved
Biases
Another
Questioning
Versus
So Much Time
China
Much
Business People
Loyalties
Even
Two
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