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02 Business Drives Freedom, Not Democracy - Jay Lillie
Jay has started businesses in Japan for U.S. clients and done years of work in Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia. He tell us that there’s not much better evidence for the notion that free markets breed individual freedom than in this area of the world. We talk about China as an emerging business nation. Jay observes that the Chinese have been very astute business people for hundreds, if not thousands of years. China will take its time if the people let it. It won’t happen overnight there as it did in Japan and Southeast Asia. The Chinese are born business oriented, but they have some very basic infrastructure to put in place over a vast population and geographical expanse.