“Deng Xiaoping made a calculation. He bet on demographics. What he knew...” — Evan Osnos Quote

Deng Xiaoping made a calculation. He bet on demographics. What he knew was that China had this enormous population of young, underemployed people, people who he could move from the farms to the coast and put them to work in factories, and that would be the lifeblood of China's economy.

China is so central to our economic lives that journalists have had no choice but to engage China with greater technical analysis and precision.

China believes that it has the rightful claim to a vast portion of the South China Sea, which is claimed by other countries.

Chinese readers are buying books in translation, particularly non-fiction about China, in large numbers.

I feel like if we can use the combination of basically data-driven hunches and bet on really first-class talent to deliver the shows, that I think we could do as well as the networks do, who basically have a 75 to 80 percent failure rate for new shows anyway - even after all that development and pilot work.

If I don't have a bet or a drink today, then I've done well. And I can start again tomorrow.

But I would bet that the euro continues to exist and that its importance as a global currency will likely increase.

People who bet against the Internet, who think that somehow this change is just a generational shift, miss that it is a fundamental reorganizing of the power of the end user. The Internet brings tremendous tools to the end user, and that end user is going to use them.