Westerners will latch on to everything this guy says, but the moment he goes off script it makes them squirm. As an aside, Ai Weiwei to me is anarchist, an extreme individualist.
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Ai Weiwei sighs and looks annoyed. “The West trying to understand China is like a soccer school trying to understand how to play a chess game,” he says. “It’s a completely different sort of system. You have too much confidence in your own ideology, or the kind of language you’re using, but you don’t understand the situation.”
