While Gates argued that Maoism is “as dead as a doornail,” he nevertheless acknowledged that the Chinese “build great infrastructure. They’ve brought hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.” But that is not all that the Chinese bring, Gates continued with a wry grin: “You have to give up your political rights, and if you’re a Uyghur you will end up in a concentration camp. And there is political repression that gets worse every day.”8
