With the year the days of this new country look like to the eyes of the enslaved. Good morning welcome to bill Wilson Center i direct the Kissinger Institute and we are extremely pleased to have roll friends with us this morning to discuss his new book the beautiful country and the metal came down. Earnings his degree in east Asian Studies at stanford then part of the first wave of American University students to go to try now. And was the launching pad for the first book the story of the new china and markets back to the Early Experiences to follow the path and the trajectory over chinas many changes in 2006 for after returning to the university he went back to china in 1988 and then was expelled from china just get out of here because of his links during that period and reported from bosnia and afghanistan and later was the editor of the Washington Post that was headed back to china for a stint to conduct research and for the best coverage in asia also has won prizes for his coverage
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speaking spanish female translator he also has a dark past, and he will have to answer for that at the end of the world. narrator who is Jorge Mario Bergoglio . How did the man who was loved and loathed by his fellow jesuits in argentina become pope . And can he revolutionize the Roman Catholic church . male 3 Francis Bergoglio says, the church is falling down. God is sending me to repair the church. male 4 there has been just a growing confusion about what the church really teaches. female 3 the big issue, the one that hes not really got a handle on yet, and that is the issue of women in the church. male 5 his head is like game of thrones, in a good way. speaking in Foreign Language cheering narrator from the moment he stepped out on the balcony of st. Peters, pope francis set a very different tone for his papacy. In just two years, he has put catholicism back on the map as a faith that has something to offer a troubled world. Hes tackling big issues head on, accountability at the vat