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“I think it's hypocritical to complain about the rise of China. For 50 years, we were telling everybody in the world that the big threat was Communism, so now the countries that were Communists are now rampant capitalists - and they're doing very well, in some ways much better than the UK. Well, we asked for it. We told them that's what you have to do, and they're doing it, buying up your biggest hotels in New York. You have to laugh.”

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Robert Wyatt

Robert Wyatt is a British musician born on January 28, 1945. He is best known as a founding member of the band Soft Machine and for his distinctive voice and poetic lyrics. more

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