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China was conducting cutting-edge biological research 20–30 years after the period the speaker characterized as being a communist basket case.
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“For example, China post Deng.”
“30 years after being kind of a communist basket case,”
“they can actually be doing this really cutting edge bio research.”Play from 58:46Report a misattribution
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