Central asia here at the Hudson Institute and it is a pleasure for me to host a market discussion on the hundred year by Michael Paul Sperry is a senior fellow and director for chinese strategy at the Hudson Institute and a distinguished defense policy, highranking Government Official and numerous books and china. He served under the Ronald Reagan and george w. Bush administrations. The book which i recommend to everyone in the audience preferably a factually since its founding has a longterm goal to establish the dominance and that michael thinks that it has albert in the United States process. Not long ago i wrote a book on pakistan u. S. Relations after having served as the ambassador to the u. S. There were magnificent delusions which i make a similar argument. [laughter] everybody seems to outright washington, d. C. And here is my take as a foreigner. The reason is they assume they want the same thing that you do and there is an assumption thats what they want and therefore the Am