The China Hustle Movie Script

And so let us start a long march... together.

Not in lockstep but on different roads leading to the same goal.

The goal of building a world structure of peace and justice, in which all may stand together with equal dignity.

First of all, our markets are already open to China.

This agreement will open China's market to us.

I would call our relationship with China very positive... and complex.

The free market is the greatest force for economic progress in human history.

I will make a great deal and lots of great deals for the American people.

Believe me!

What is capitalism?

Is it an economic system?

Or is it an apparatus that we can use to make more money for ourselves and take more money from others?

I think, at its heart, it rewards those who work hard, but it also rewards those who... are willing to... take advantage of others.

There are no good guys in this story... including me.

- Yeah, yeah, that's good.

- Okay... What's your earliest memory from childhood?

- That's a trick question.

- Is it?

I... was not expecting it.

I don't know what my earliest memory from childhood was.

I imagine I was two years old and I was busting a fraud somewhere.

This is Dan David.

The first time I met him, we had a couple of drinks at a TGI Fridays in Penn Station, and he told me an almost unbelievable story.

Before the dust had settled on the economic collapse of 2008, Wall Street had already figured out a new way to package garbage as gold.

They were engineering an enormous fraud that spanned the globe.