Audio interview with Yao
May 23rd, 2008by John
About a week ago, Yao conducted an audio interview with National Public Radio where he talks about the earthquake, his familiarity with that area, how he’s sometimes misunderstood by some Americans, and the politicization of the Olympic games.
Click here to launch the player that will stream the interview.
Note: the interviewer asks Yao about his donation of $70,000 U.S. The one thing not mentioned in this interview is the 2 million RMB he donated in China.
May 23rd, 2008 at 1:10 pm
From what I read, Yao donated 500,000 yuan ($70,000) to Chinese Red Cross through Team Yao in Shanghai and $210,000 or 1.5M yuan to American Red Cross for a total of 2M yuan. It’s the original 500,000 yuan donation that drew the criticism which of course I think is ridiculous.