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been investing heavily overseas and ultimately a lot more chinese companies will have to come out. if they are just selling within china are already very established brands in china. a lot of chinese brands had to buy talent market. so the internet may create a new base for them to develop. that s been the case which uses scarcity mark eating and fan clubs to take on no ps and apple, even though they are lower-priced point. chinese are frustrated, name a chinese car. volkswagen. the thoughtful about what they are keeping the volvo named. i know that you can t really create a global brand. one note though sounds vaguely italian, but they did actually buy the idea. so it s not like the japanese way that they just buy stuff and hope it works out. there is some crazy things happening. two weeks ago, almost they are developed the waldorf astoria hotel that nobody seems to justify. there s a lot of money sloshing around china. there is also a sense that they need to keep ta ....
political science department here at the university and also a research fellow at the peace corps center. so it is my great pleasure and honor to have this conversation with mr. nisid hajari, the 2016 winner of the recipient and winner of the famed norwich colby award. what we are going to do today is have a conversation. you have read his bio i m sure. you should take a look at the pamphlet that was handed out. he s a very famous journalist. he helped set up by magazines asia edition. he lives now in singapore and works or bloomberg. and he s written this book called midnight s furies, and what we wanted to do today is unpacked this book. and nisid, i have not intentionally not read the entire bio because i think it would be of more interesteintereste d audience for us to have a conversation and put the book in perspective. so this book deals with events that happened in countries far away, over 70 some odd years ago but i would contend that the book is so timely and ....
in debt. they started off incredibly well. they published grant s memoirs, enormous success, and huckleberry finn. and twain expected to pay himself fat royalties. he wound up receiving no royalties. this is their final list of titles, and i don t know if you can see from there, but any publisher that s going to go out with stories from the rabbis [laughter] is probably going to be in a little trouble. [laughter] so headlines, and it was deeply humiliating, headlines in the newspaper said mark twain fails. i mean, it was brutal. failure of mark twain, failure of humanist. and he s humorist. and he s this literary superstar, deeply embarrassed, and he gets two main advisers. one of the wealthiest men in america, the right-hand man to john k. rockefeller, standard oil. his nickname was hell hound, and this robber-baron wants to play hardball with the creditors. he wants to offer ten cents on the dollar. twain s other adviser is his wife, libby. she has absolutely no b ....
chosen successor to follow macarthur. the second part part of it is that roosevelt is already working in the depths of the depression to be given to prepare the country for some level of mobilization for world war ii. it is great to have a conservative republican leading guy go up to the hill as army chief of staff and take some of the flak when saying that our military budget needs to be increased. to note note the military budget was a 1935? total military budget for the army part, it was something like $400,000. it is rather incredible in that. i think there there were reasons to keep him around. there s no indication to try to get rid of him? i m sure sitting in the house not too far from here there are many times that roosevelt wanted to get rid of macarthur. there are always reasons why he didn t. i ll be glad to sign books. thank you all for coming. [applause]. every night on c-span through august, book tv is in prime time. tomorrow we will highlight our gu ....
to the drive to get into the dutch east indies, cut the lines of communication between the natural resources and the flowe of oil up to japan and certainly he had a strong point about that. by the time he has gotten back to the philippines and really gone ahead and moves in to. [inaudible] in 1945, those operations as first natural resources and everything, the lines of supply to japan have already been cut by american submarines. the industries to which they run have been pounded by b-29 a nuth bombers. so the only thing at the end that i would say the nutshell is that, there seems to be good evidence that despite the joint chiefs not able to decide one way or the other that that twin driver across the pacific to keep the japanese off balance him, there is absolutely no question that a both fronts fronts there were some horrific battles.nd it of going into macarthur with the savior conflicts, i shall return as opposed to week, is there any discussion as a whole army ....