Rice universities Public Policy hosted the event. It is over one hour. Welcome to the Baker Institute webinar. I am steve lewis. The head of our china studies program. We are happy to have you all this afternoon. Thank you for tuning in. I am hoping not only do you find it informative and unique colleague, but froma welcome respite domestic politics, which is never as important as aging asian affairs. I would like to thank all of you again. Our hardworking staff at the Baker Institute. My Research Assistant for helping. The foundation for endowing a lot of the events here. The doctor i have known her for 10 years one of our top scholars. I think it has been 10 years. She was a postdoc here for asian interested in media. Had her and her expertise in many of our past webinars on chinese politics. We are happy to have her again today. Also, we are happy this year because she is newly minted as an associate professor, tenured professor at media studies at the university of virginia. The on
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Thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. So lets start with the idea of your book 1 billion americans try to get more people in here . 670 Million People. And then sometimes have a Bad Reputation and how clean it was good. And then to be provocative and i thought to thought experiment like chinas competition we just cannot grow as fast. But we can have more people we spend money to keep them out and we dont have as many children as they say we want to have. We occurred provide childcare so why not . When i do it . Limited to say thats too many people like is hong kong to be crammed in like sardines. Is that true . With one americans the population would be about half. Yeah america is empty with a lot of amber waves of grain. [laughter] is just really big and stuff is historically odd 330 million in canada they are 25 million we make policy choices mature. Our career to get a lot of people to. It is very deliberate you look at the George Washington administration, there is a l
Precautionary measure and they expect the president to stay there for the nix fext few days working out of the offices in the facility they said the president had mild symptoms but larry kudlow described at 3 00 this afternoon the symptoms as moderate the white house has not said whether that is accelerating president recorded a video message and posted it on twitter. I want to thank everybody for the tremendous support im going to Walter Reed Hospital i think im doing very well. But were going to make sure that things work out the first lady is doing very well so thank you very much i appreciate it. I will never forget this thank you. A short time ago the president before boarding marine one. This afternoon the president s physician reported that he was fatigued but in good spirits and received a regeneron antibody cocktail but not yet through clinical trials. The white house reports that the president has not transferred power to the Vice President mike pence and that he is still in
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