Very good at talking to strangers. I was struck by how many of the kind of contemporary highprofile controversies that we find ourselves in come down to the same problem, that two people who didnt know each other very well attempt to communicate and fail or attempt to understand each other and fail. Bernie madoff, people had conversations with Bernie Madoff and never understood who he was. The Jerry Sandusky case at penn state. Brock turner Sexual Assault case at stanford a few years back, these are failed communications. And the one that really, the book starts and ends with, the signature case im concerned with is the sandra bland case, which is one of those high profile encounters between African Americans and Law Enforcement that was, excuse me, so much in the news a few years ago, which was a conversation between a young black man, black woman and a Police Officer who pulls her over, and the conversation goes off the rails. And i wondered why is it, why is it that were, that we fa
Highprofile controversies that we find ourselves in come down to the same problem, that two people who didnt know each other very well attempt to communicate and fail or attempt to understand each other and fail. Bernie madoff, people had conversations with Bernie Madoff and never understood who he was. The Jerry Sandusky case at penn state. Brock turner Sexual Assault case at stanford a few years back, these are failed communications. And the one that really, the book starts and ends with, the signature case im concerned with is the sandra bland case, which is one of those high profile encounters between African Americans and Law Enforcement that was, excuse me, so much in the news a few years ago, which was a conversation between a young black man, black woman and a Police Officer who pulls her over, and the conversation goes off the rails. And i wondered why is it, why is it that were, that we fail in these conversations with strangers . Thats where the book comes from. Susan each o
Malcolm the premise of this latest book is that were not very good at talking to strangers. I was struck by how many of the kind of contemporary highprofile controversies that we find ourselves in come down to the same problem, that two people who didnt know each other very well attempt to communicate and fail or attempt to understand each other and fail. Bernie madoff, people had conversations with Bernie Madoff and never understood who he was. The Jerry Sandusky case at penn state. Brock turner Sexual Assault case at stanford a few years back, these are failed communications. And the one that really, the book starts and ends with, the signature case im concerned with is the sandra bland case, which is one of those high profile encounters between African Americans and Law Enforcement that was, excuse me, so much in the news a few years ago, which was a conversation between a young black man, black woman and a Police Officer who pulls her over, and the conversation goes off the rails.
To cross up this and more im joined by my guest when he came in london she is a policy analyst and senior lecturer in Chinese International political economy and in washington we cross to you and is a senior fellow at the independent institute ok im going to go to you 1st in washington i mean if you look at the Mainstream Media as to what russia gate seems to wind down the banks have come up for china and some of the some really very very harsh editorials are being written there in the Washington Post New York Times and they can a. T. M. Press and even in the British Press here is this a new cold war and if it is how is it different on the up with the one that was against the soviet union go ahead and wash. Well i think its a bit its a little bit of history to say its a cold war yet i mean i think this is actually nearing frankly end but you know Foreign Countries sort of been historically have realized and though of president ial Election Years especially candidates you know attack Fo
A cold war yet i mean i think this is all actually nearing frankly end but you know Foreign Countries sort of been historically have realized and though of president ial Election Years especially candidates you know attack Foreign Countries. And try to stir things up. Especially if theyre in trouble in other ways and i think our current president having difficulty with his response to the virus and also the economy the economic ramifications of course which other countries are also experiencing but in our country. You know of course especially chop his the real action really depends on the economy going well since hes a minority president that has to get a majority the 1st time so i think youre seeing a lot of the Election Year and that things may die down you know after the election season either hell. Lose the election and somebody else will command by our will be reelected. To get some sort of agreement with chinese perhaps its hard to say what will happen but certainly this there i