How many are from the boston area . Have any of outside of boston . Capitalist . How many people think they will invest in asia . [laughter] thats why you came. So you have two very distinguished authors here and individuals will introduce the briefly and then we will get back into the background in the conversation. And going to college at trinity then later did a number things the journalistic area started his own magazine worked at the Washington Post for many years is still a columnist and for his writing since he won the Pulitzer Prize now the robinson professor of Public Affairs at george mason and this is in addition to writing books. And to his right he lives in singapore and flew it all for this event more or less. [applause] he grew up in many places around the world and is a graduate of Georgetown University and then the phd at the London School of economics and has written many books of Global Affairs and now gives strategic advice and that to esquire magazine said not too
Proximity and the politic head legal handover its not likely they in the 1970s, we were worried in the United States that japan would take over the world economically. What happened to japans economy and its demographics are the worst in the world. Heat goes to happen to jap over the next 10, 20, 30 injuries. It was wrong to believe that japan would take over the world it and doesnt mean that we are equally wrong to view china as a major peer competitor. Because theyre two very, very Different Countries obviously. China vastly larger demographic include and now economically. When it comes to japan, yes they are in demographic decline. However, weve kind of i think we need a new conversation but japan that doesnt really judge the country solely on the basis of the fact their population is decreasing. For one thing, the most evolved Technological Society in the world. They are moving towards this kind of manmachine synthesis like no other place in the world. Robots in restaurants and hot
But i had a wonderful professor at Columbia Law School who later moved to stanford, jerry gunther. He was in charge of getting clerkships for columbia students, and he called every federal judge on the Second Circuit, in the southern, eastern districts of new york, and he was not meeting with success. So he called a columbia graduate, judge edmund palmieri, who was a columbia undergraduate, Columbia Law School graduate and always took his clerks from columbia. And he said i strongly recommend that you engage ruth Bader Ginsburg. And palmieris response was ive had women law clerks, i know theyre okay, but shes a mother, and sometimes we have to work on weekends, even on a sunday. So professor gunther said give her a chance, and if she doesnt work out, a young man in her class whos going to a Downtown Firm will jump in and take over. So that was the carrot. It was also a stick, and the stick was if you dont give her a chance, i will never recommend another columbia graduate as your law c
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