Afterwards is the weekly Interview Program with relevant guest house interviewing top about their latest work. Bill, congratulations and thank you for joining us today. We are going to cover a lot of ground in your book, deceiving the sky inside communist chinas drive for global supremacy. The first of all, why did you decide to write the book . This is my eighth book editing 2000, redbook called the china threat which was a play on what beijing calls the china threat theory. It was amazing. They really predicted the emergence of a major threat by communist china. This is never the book, i try to do another china book and every publisher approach, said we wont write a single topic try to book. You have chapters on time but we both write a single topic. Why was that. Tonight i really dont know. There are concerns or interest about and finally the deck in heels and i said it is time to do it another book on it from china as it is becoming greater then it was way back when the transfer wa
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Keane. Let the record reflect all the commissioners are here. Item number two, Public Comment on matters appearing were not appearing on the agenda. I would urge if you have comments that relate to the matters on the agenda, to hold them until we get to them because i think this may be a long meeting tonight and id like to minimize the repeat statement. But, anyway, lets go. We have missed you for a few months. Ive missed you. Im patrick. Im not appear to thank commissioner hur over all four years of service on the Ethics Commission as his term is set to expire in early february. Many of herhave been problematic but i would be remiss by not thinking him for his seminal boat when [inaudible] when he cast the Ethics Commission sold vote when behavior had not [inaudible]. As i wrote the time in our analysis which eventually turned out to be offered, i think i think the private practice attorney Stephen Burke [inaudible] before the respective hearings clearly demonstrated the mayors trumpe
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