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 china s 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 f
so i think, you know, from china s perspective, maybe china s having relatively more success than we are with china. [inaudible] you spoke earlier about china s demographic issues. could you please compare and contrast china s demographic issues with the demographic issues facing the united states. that s a great question. so sometime this year but definitely by 2020, the if not this year, the average median age in china will be 38, will be above that of the united states. china will have a larger percentage of his population or of its population above the ainge of 60 than we do within ten years. its work force peaked in 2015, it s gun to shrink gunn to shrink. the chinese act knowledge this is a serious problem, but it creates a lot of cascading challenges for the chinese because a country with a oplation and a work force that s shrinking has a tendency not to grow as quickly and also not innovate as quickly unless they
braun, latinn american historian here at the university of texas. it gives me great pleasure to have read these papers and now meet the gentleman who have written these papers. i worked on the 1960 s. i see certain similarities and what is going on in the 1960 s with that which transpired between the united states and latin america in the 1980 s as well any papers. what we would like to do is i contestantsce the excuse me, the presenters. we are going to have the two papers on central america first. then we will turn our attention to south america because it is two different things. south america is dealing with the end of military governments, long-term military governments. then there is this act of newly installed leftist revolution in nicaragua that will take up our attention. we will do that first. then we will follow along with on southn the america. thatis interesting here is we have papers that are based upon u.s. sources and also based upon sources from latin ame
purse when he asked to see some identification. he was slightly injured but was able to shoot her. she is in serious condition. that s probably going to be one of the topics when the israeli prime minister meets with president obama. it s bibi netanyahu s first meeting with the president since the adoption of the iran nuclear deal. that s why israel is asking for a new security agreement. also hanging over today s meeting in washington, d.c., netanyahu s new chief spokesman has described mr. obama as anti-semitic and secretary of state john kerry as someone who cannot be taken seriously. just outside the capital, a devastating toll from a fiery traffic accident. a pickup truck slammed into a church van in maryland and burst into flames. neighbors who heard what they say sounded like a bomb tried to save the passengers but the truck driver and three people in the van were killed drug a child. 14 others were hospitalized, eight of them in critical condition. family and frie
on the world s top killer. and the philadelphia eagles handed the dallas cowboys their sixth straight loss last night. final score, 33-27. it was in overtime. the cowboys longest losing streak in 26 years. those are some of our top headlines this monday, november 9th. good morning, everyone, this half-hour, more on the russian plane crash and growing consensus that a bomb is to blame. intercepts show isis this h direct had direct contact with someone at the airport in egypt. officials are revealing a string of security gaps. with more, here s abc s molly hunter. reporter: a brief click caught on tape. that sound could be critical to figuring out how this russian passenger jet crashed. a noise was heard in the last seconds of the cvr recording. is it a bomb, or is it something we re hearing where the airplane is physically coming apart? reporter: so far, all signs seem to point to a bomb. and u.s. officials are expressing growing confidence in that theory. the