Institution for a decade. One of our finest and most objective i think in scholarly think tanks in washington so im glad to be here. Glad to be with ryan and patricia will have a conversation and i will not bore you with a long speech. They have asked me to give a few introductory comments. I wanted to do that to set the stage of where i think we are in u. S. China relations. Ive just come back four days ago from beijing and its been a very active period in a relationship with the china and was with the president in woodside, California North of the stanford campus for his meeting with president xi jim king. I look at this and i think most people do come of the u. S. China relationship is the most consequential relationship the United States has now. Particularly we will have it for the next couple of decades. We are the two leading economies in the world and will be into the 20 40s and we are the two most powerful militaries in the world and certainly will be for the next two or three
Release on this completed broadcast will continue the documentary film agent blakes choice. My name is george blake im professional scout. I was a British Intelligence officer. In 1961 i was sentenced to 42 years in prison as a soviet spy. And ended up in jail. The film that you are about to see is the story of my whole life and in fact. Everything said here is true. I am 88 years old, like an old man. I have enough time to slowly rethink my life again, i am often asked if i regret what i did , that i voluntarily began to work for soviet intelligence, what can i answer i have nothing to justify. And even more repentant. I will try to tell about myself. Only the truth is not evading anything and does not embellish anything. I was born in 1922 in holland, the protard was the childrens bible. I enjoyed reading the stories of the Old Testament and dreamed of becoming a pastor. But in 1940 everything changed germany occupied my native holland i hated fascism and joined the underground resis
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