Period. In china he was born with a feudal empire which hasnt really changed for 2000 years. When he left, when he died it was a major power. A member of the u. N. Security council with satellites, with Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles and nuclear weapons. Cspan how long have you spent in china . Guest i first went to china 90 and 77. I open their office and then i have been back for periods of up to a couple of months pretty regularly. Almost every year for the last decade or so, less often in the previous 10 years. Cspan this is a big low, close to 800 pages. Guest its not supposed to seem like that. Cspan is their new material in there . Guest oh yeah three of the is there has not been a new tiger field mouse for 20 years. The last one, the last major biography was in 1980 and over the last 20 years, so much has emerged. Facts, documents, memoirs by people who were around mao. Huge areas which we didnt really understand our winter stood wrongly are now much more clear. Its possib
Of thrones and award seasons all rolled into one. This is how i discovered to my non china friends. Detailed profiles of whos who in chinas political circles and how they are connected start popping up everywhere and everyone certainly depictions on who they think will make it onto the seventh person Standing Committee which is the pinnacle of power in china. This Years Congress however was all about one man and that man was general secretary. Prior to the congress dominated the basic among china watchers. Some analysts any doubt about his strength was put to rest last week when congress amended the partys constitution to include and i quote xi jinping on socialism with chinese characters explore a new area as a guiding possible. Hes the First Chinese leader to have his name and trying to the constitution while still alive since mao. This has led some to argue, especially in the media have been reading these headlines that he is now the strongest chinese leader in history since mao, pe
Media. His documentaries include i am a man, black masculinity, in america, beyond beaten rhymes and soul food junkies. In october, 1966, as you all know, bobby seale and hughie p. Newton established the original black Panther Party in oakland, california. [ cheers and applause ] seale was the founding chairman and National Organizer from 1966 to 1974. Seales an author, educator and tireless advocate for the legacy of the black Panther Party. Stephen shames is a student at the university of california berkeley, first encountered and photographed bobby seale in april of 1967, in an antivietnam war rally. Seale became a mentor to shames, and shames became the most trusted photographer to the party, remaining by seales side during his run for mayor of oakland in 1973. Stephen shames is the author of nine monographs, the latest power of the people, the black panthers, coauthored with bobby seale. He creates awardwinning photos for advocacy organizations, the media and museums. Steves image
That photograph a lump immortalized with his own son did when he wrote the number one New York Times bestseller and so you know from his bestseller you know his father. You also know from the movie that was based on that number one bestseller in the movie flags of our fathers that Stephen Spielberg and clint eastward Clint Eastwood did. When do you might not know is 29 years after iwo jima his father approved james going to a university in tokyo the home of the previous enemy. I think thats an inspiring story. Since then James Bradley has written flyboys. A few nofly boys, another bestseller. He has written the imperial cruise and this is his fourth book the china mirage so please welcome James Bradley. [applause] thank you. [applause] hello dallas. Dallas, businessmen and dallas was key to beginning flags of our fathers off the ground in the first place. My dad raised the flag on iwo jima but he never talked about it. He would always change the subject. He died in 1994 and we found a
Warning that leaving the countrt unchecd uld lead to eater threats around the world. John bolton is the former u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations and a fox news contributor. Ambassador, welcome back to the program. Glad to be with you. Paul so as i look at the first few weeks of the Trump Administration Foreign Policy, it looks like theres a really concerted focus on what i would call the countries that use or are trying to get weapons of mass destruction. Syria, you saw the chemical response. Destr north korea, youve seen a real concerted effort to contain that. And now iran. Is that a fair summary of where theyre putting they are emphasis . No, i think thats accurate, and i think that reflects where the president himself is deeply concerned about the proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. And as you mentioned in the case of the syrian regimes use of chemical weapons to actually use military force in response. So i think if you put it allll together, its a very antiproliferation admini