This week on q a james man author and resident at John Hopkins School of advanced international studies. He talks about his biography of president george w. Bush. James mann a third of the biography on george w. Bush if a friend of yours who had never met george w. Bush and asked about him what would you say . I would say that he was a guy that was his son of a president. He had trouble dealing with that fact for the first 40 plus years of his life. Then he got his own personal life together enough to be a quite successful and true pa laetitia to be elected governor of texas, and then became the president of the United States. The first thing he would be known for at the time of his presidency and forever more with the fact that he was the president during the time of the september 11th attacks. He chose to wage a war in iraq that turned out to be a disaster. What were his early years like . He followed in his fathers footsteps. I see that quite literally, because he was forced almost
Now joined in the studio by our Resident John i watch a clip of coon and cliff what happened to the child a comma everything was going so well you know it sort of feels that way doesnt it basically that the trade war happens and were seeing that now gradually feeding into into indicators like the car market. Weve had now 14 straight months which is an incredible incredible period of decline and its really beginning to make its make itself felt on the real economy. Why electric vehicles are also being affected why and why is that so warning well electric vehicles are particularly worrying because thats always been the area 1st of all that electric vehicles are good for pollution pollution is a big political issue in china the cities are are dirty the air is dirty and the government wants to change that people are unhappy about it it seems like a great solution whats happening is that its just that there are various measures in place to encourage people to buy the cars on the electric ve
So rapidly what will happen now that growth is slowing down and the impact of the trade war with the United States but 1st lets take a look back at 70 years of economic development. But of the 949 when the communist peoples republic of china was founded the country was dirt poor poorer than many african nations 70 percent of its population are peasants and day laborers getting by on an income of just 57. 00 a year in a mostly agricultural economy communist party leader dongs reform in the 1950 s. Nationalized industry and distributed land from the wealthy to the countrys 4 but those policies led the country into chaos the communist revolves were the main cause of a widespread famine that killed millions of people and displaced many more millions more died in a wave of terror and communist reeducation camps after molls death and 976 chinas next leader Deng Xiaoping introduced some reforms that open the economy is policies brought china into the global marketplace and result has the curr
This hearing is call to order. Welcome. 50 years ago, exactly what each week from today, at approximately 9 30 am, 2 astronauts, sitting atop a rocket the size of a navy destroyer, packing 7. 5 Million Pounds of thrust, took off from Kennedy Space center in florida. Roughly 1 Million People had gathered on the ground to watch this historic event. That included half of the u. S. Congress. These 3 astronauts, as one of the newspapers put it at the time, carried with them the hopes of the world. The u. S. 1969. The year before i was born. The astronauts were now im strong, but, and michael collins. And the mission was apollo 11. Armstrong and aldrin went on to make history a little more than 100 hours later. When with more than one third of the earths the earth watching, word listening live. They became the first humans to ever set foot on the moon. The apollo 11 mission would go on to make history again. A little less than 100 hours after that, as the First Mission not only to put men on
50 years ago, exactly what each week from today, at approximately 9 30 am, 2 astronauts, sitting atop a rocket the size of a navy destroyer, packing 7. 5 Million Pounds of thrust, took off from Kennedy Space center in florida. Roughly 1 Million People had gathered on the ground to watch this historic event. That included half of the u. S. Congress. These 3 astronauts, as one of the newspapers put it at the time, carried with them the hopes of the world. The u. S. 1969. The year before i was born. The astronauts were now im strong, but, and michael collins. And the mission was apollo 11. Armstrong and aldrin went on to make history a little more than 100 hours later. When with more than one third of the earths the earth watching, word listening live. They became the first humans to ever set foot on the moon. The apollo 11 mission would go on to make history again. A little less than 100 hours after that, as the First Mission not only to put men on the moon, but to bring them home safely