EP #119: The Impact of China with Jason Szeftel

The world seems to be smaller than ever.  It’s easy to communicate across continents and digital technology has accelerated most things in life.  However, every place in the world has a history and it’s important to understand how the past still affects the future.  You must understand how a place works in order to see its impact on the world and have your own impact in that region.

Jason Szeftel is a political and economic writer that has focus on China.  His experiences there allowed him to learn much about the culture and history of the nation.  The conversation in this episode is enlightening as to how its systems work.  You’ll want to pay close attention to the need for understanding these things in order to maximize impact.  Every place in the world has needs and whoever is called to serve them must be well-educated.   

What You'll Learn In Today's Episode:

  • How Jason became interested in China

  • Jason’s background and international relations experience

  • About China’s government politics

  • How many countries are segmented

  • The importance of understanding other cultures

  • About historical China

  • The volatility of the Chinese population

  • How human life is not valued

  • How China’s land stresses there agriculture

  • How masses of people are used to overcome things

  • About the North China Plane

  • How hard it is to feed, educate, and house a huge population

  • About the Chinese Communist Party and its size

  • About historical social unrest in China

  • The age of the Chinese population

  • About poverty in China

  • How businesses in China benefit the Communist Party

  • What the Poll Bureau is

  • How you can join the Communist Party

  • Jason’s thoughts on how COVID-19’s development

  • About the strange incompetence at the lab in Wuhan where the coronavirus came from

  • How Western missionaries have made an Impact on China

  • The challenges that China faces and how they are similar to Russia

  • The impact opportunities going forward in the easter hemisphere

Ideas Worth Sharing:

“When I was a kid, I was reading old…Chinese novels.” - Jason Szeftel

“China can’t be fixed.” - Jason Szeftel

“There’s more than one China.” - Jason Szeftel

“There are tensions within the country.” - Jason Szeftel 

“When things go bad, they often break into pieces.” - Jason Szeftel

“China avoided a big slowdown with the financial crisis by kicking the can down the road.” - Jason Szeftel

“Before the 20th Century, both the deadliest conflicts in the world were Chinese civil wars.” - Jason Szeftel

“Northern China is extraordinarily poor.” - Jason Szeftel

“The population of Chinese rises and falls.” - Jason Szeftel

“China has horrific land.” - Jason Szeftel

“There’s literally rice patties that crawl up mountainsides.” - Jason Szeftel

“It could start to use its population to satisfy global consumer needs all across the world.” - Jason Szeftel 

“It needed to retool its economy to be a more consumer-driven economy.” - Jason Szeftel

“There’s been thousands of peasant rebellions.” - Jason Szeftel

“Individualism is ’t encourages to say it lightly.” - Jason Szeftel

“They had all these young, cheap, healthy workers.” - Jason Szeftel 

“Inland in China you can find insane poverty.” - Jason Szeftel

“How do you have billionaires who own giant private companies in communism?” - Jason Szeftel referencing a question he gets frequently

“There’s no company in China that didn’t have deals or kickbacks for the Communist Party.” - Jason Szeftel

“The Communist Party is 95 million plus members.” - Jason Szeftel

“All the politics happen inside the party.” - Jason Szeftel

“The history of western missionaries…had an enormous impact on this country.” - Jason Szeftel

“What’s happening to Russia will most likely happen in China.” - Jason Szeftel

“Did you feel a need to fix and make an impact immediately?” - Bob DePasquale

“We can’t necessarily fix it but we should at least understand what’s going on.” - Bob DePasquale

“It’s interesting how understanding other people’s cultures helps us learn more about ourselves.” - Bob DePasquale

Resources In Today's Episode:

 
 
 
 
 
Robert DePasquale

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