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PJ Media, January 11, 2013

–Article by Ying Ma

In cities across America, free-market ideas have been losing the battle against the welfare state for a long, long time. The November 2012 elections merely offered the latest depressing results. To reverse the tide, free-market believers should think about a brand new approach: stop demanding courage as the price of admission.

To read entire article, please click here.

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Ying Ma spoke to Reason TV about China’s economic miracle and her book, Chinese Girl in the Ghetto. She talked about living through the crumbling of Maoism and the beginning of China’s historic economic reforms. She also explained why American policymakers and pundits are mistaken to laud China’s state-centric approach to economic growth.

Reason TV is the online video division of Reason, a libertarian monthly print magazine that promotes free markets and free minds.

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Reagan Ranch Center, April 13, 2012

Ying Ma spoke to the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute‘s 2012 Western Women’s Summit about China, economic freedom and her book, Chinese Girl in the Ghetto. The summit took place at the Reagan Ranch Center. To watch the speech, please click here.

Ying Ma has previously spoken at the Reagan Ranch Center about the dark side of Chinese state capitalism. For more information and to watch that speech, please click here.

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The Davis and Emmer Show, a popular morning talk radio show in Minnesota, spoke to Ying Ma today about her book, the complexities of freedom, China’s economy and why China is not better than the United States. Hosted by Bob Davis and Tom Emmer, the Davis and Emmer Show airs on Twin Cities News Talk AM 1130, a FoxNews Radio Station.

For the full interview, please listen here (Note: The discussion with Ying begins at approximately minute 14:35 and ends around minute 34:35.)

For more information about Ying’s book, Chinese Girl in the Ghetto, please click here.

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Pajamas Media, July 22, 2011

–By Ying Ma

America’s movers and shakers can’t seem to stop ogling Chinese authoritarian chic. While few would defend China’s repressive political system, numerous politicians, business executives, and pundits bow before China’s state-directed capitalism, equating authoritarianism with efficiency and ruthlessness with enlightenment.

At the heart of this ogling lies an admiration for Beijing’s ability to undertake large projects far more quickly than America’s democratic gridlock would ever allow. In reality, Chinese central economic planning generates massive inefficiencies and imposes drastic human costs. Below is merely the short list.

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Right Commentary, October 20, 2008 

Senator Barack Obama would like the country to believe that snubbing the private sector adds to his qualifications to be President of the United States. For the past eighteen months, he has touted that he turned down Wall Street after college for community organizing and walked away from lucrative big law firm jobs after law school for civil rights lawyering. In the Obama campaign narrative, the candidate’s rejection of corporate America is a badge of honor, a manifestation of what Obama’s wife refers to as his commitment to closing the gap between “the world as it should be” and “the world as it is.” 

Self-congratulation and self-adulation are not the same as reality. Each day, clients of large law firms and Wall Street, not just political activists, take concrete actions that make the world a better place. Senator Obama does not understand, so he refuses to acknowledge the possibility.

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