“The economic impact has been this extremely uneven thing where I don’t know how many but several hundred thousand or millions of small businesses have been terribly affected, but most of the big, big businesses have done really well, unless they’re in cruise lines or, you know, hotels or something, ”Buffett said in an interview that aired on CNBC Tuesday night.

Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Vice President Charlie Munger touched on a variety of topics during the interview. Munger said China was on the right approach to the pandemic by essentially shutting down the country for six weeks.

“It turned out to be exactly the right thing to do,” Munger said. “And they didn’t allow any contact. You picked up your groceries in a box in the apartment and that’s all the contact you had with anyone for six weeks. And, when it was all over, they kind of went back to work. It happened, they did it exactly right.

Munger also praised the financial regulations put in place by Chinese regulators. For example, he said China was right to crack down on Ant Group, which is affiliated with billionaire Jack Ma’s Alibaba group, when it forced the giant online payments company to become a financial holding company that will be further regulated. like a bank.