but at the same time, i think we do have to be realistic. and you are about what we re dealing with here. look, it s extremely sort of exhilarating and moving to see what s happening in china. but let s not be deceived that the chinese communist party going to think that they re going to crash. i mean, this guy has made a special study of mikhail gorbachev, how not to be that guy. if you ll forgive the expression of what he thinks of as a cook. you know, that is not going to be something that he claims you. he s not going to he s not going to go down that way. he s going to fight and he s prepared to do it. i mean, i was looking at some of the instance from the civil war or the cultural revolution, the great leap forward at one point, the civil war, the chinese, the besieged ,one of the nationalist outlets, and they let soldiers out, but they deliberately starved the civilians inside. that was people who were in the chinese leadership until quite recently. but then we have extremely po
from what the communist party is facing? do people see these two things as separate entities in china? ., ., , ., in china? no, i really don t think s0- in china? no, i really don t think so. of in china? no, i really don t think so. of course, - in china? no, i really don t think so. of course, at - in china? no, i really don t. think so. of course, at various times in the past, the tavern classes made a difference between mao zedong and the communist party, but that s not what is going on, and in general terms, what is going on, and in generalterms, in what is going on, and in general terms, in authoritarian systems, people tend to blame the local officials rather than the local officials rather than the number one supreme leader. even at the height of mall s mendis at the end of the great leap forward in the date 1950s, people used to write to him and say, if you knew what your local officials were doing, you would step in and save us, even though they were doing exactly what
began with the industrial revolution in the 18th century. it was dominated by outside powers during the 19th century. and for the last century, when this chinese s couples parents and grandparents were alive, china suffered through a collapsing dynasty, civil wars, brutal occupation by japan and prolonged battle between the forces of chang shy day and moo sze dong. a struggle that plunged the country into 30 years of highly charged experiments, from the great leap forward to the cultural revolution, all of which failed. china by the late 70s was an exhausted, impoverished, isolated country with a revolutionary s regime whose red china cause had lost any global relevance. this china s couple s parents were among the poorest people in the world with the fewest