Different from texas, or california, or someone from the south is different from someone from the north. China is a massive, diverse country. If you come to visit, do not spend all of your time just in beijing. Try to go somewhere different. Other places are nothing like beijing. When i have friends come to visit, i love to go out and try regional foods. Hunan food middle eastern food, just to give people a flavor that, when we talk about china, and i am guilty of it too, it is just a short hand. There is no one china. Was story have you written that has gotten the most attention in china. A really good question. I think the story of the communist party chief, bo xilai. That exposed a lot of corruption at the high level of the communist party. I think the escape of the blind activists got as much attention from folks back here who are interested in the human rights agenda. Chen guangchens escape from harsh treatment and interrogation. Partly because he is blind and being a human rights
California, or someone from the south is different from someone from the north. China is a massive, diverse country. If you come to visit, do not spend all of your time just in beijing. Try to go somewhere different. Other places are nothing like beijing. When i have friends come to visit, i love to go out and try regional foods. Hunan food, middle eastern food, just to give people a flavor that when we talk about china, and i am guilty of it too, it is just a short hand. There is no one china. What story have you written that has gotten the most attention in china . A really good question. I think the story of the communist party chief, bo xilai. That exposed a lot of corruption at the high level of the communist party. I think the escape of the blind activist got as much attention from folks back here who are interested in the human rights question. Chen guangchens escape from harsh treatment and interrogation. Partly because he is blind and being a human rights lawyer and activist.
Communist party. I think the escape of the blind activist got as much attention from folks back here who are interested in the human rights question. Chen guangchens escape from harsh treatment and interrogation. Partly because he is blind and being a human rights lawyer and activist. Somehow, he escaped from these conditions. He made his way hundreds of miles from the province to beijing. That really got a lot of attention. That was a pretty dramatic story that happened over the last year. How exclusive were those stories to you . I got the first phone call when he was escorted from the embassy to the hospital. It was partly accidental. He was calling the Washington Post because of a former partner of mine who wrote a book, and he had a chapter devoted to Chen Guangchen which put chen on the map. I do not think he had a lot of access to the media and he wanted to let the Washington Post know. We had good relationships not only with chen and his allies. They would call us when there we
Prevent. And irwran that will stop at nothing to in secret develop a nuclear weapon. Many military analysts say a strike on iran, even a very good one delays that option. Leave one additional thought. Wharf whatever you thought of libyan intervention. It set off a whole bunch events it africa. That was predictable. Let me give you view of iran to operation in libya. This is what happens when you give up your wmd program. So my last question for you on this evening, after this remarkable career of 39 years in the military, listening in on all these bad actors and conversations for all your years in intelligence, the National Security agency, being at the cia and seeing everything from the trains blown up in madrid to the towers come down when you were at nsa in new york, are you an optimist or a pessimist when it comes to human nature . I am, in another venue, described reading the president s daily preefs and all the stuff that is not ready for prime time every morning, six or seven da
I offer a gesture of hasty bialty. I will assure that your question is asked. Its exactly one of the questions i have of dr. Collins of the impact of sequester on nih, and your staff is more than welcome to accompany me on that visit so that they can receive the firsthand briefing that i will receive. [inaudible] as will, of course, senator hard kips saf. Harkins staff. As you know, in his new role, senator pryor . Thank you, madam chairwoman. Let me just follow up on one of senator blunts points he made about the department of agriculture, if i may. You know, the law on meat inspectors says that the inspectors that the plants cant operate unless the inspectors are there. So closing these plants for 15 days could result in reduction of sol volume of 200 pounds of meat, 2. 3 billion pounds of poultry and more than 200 billion pounds of egg products. So this is going to adversely effect every consumer in america, its going to be very disruptive to our food supply and the chain that we ha