Questions via zoom. When i was a kid growing up or 12 years old or so, i went to a flea market. There were people there selling objects. It,rchased it, and i broke and it was not a philosophical thing. I just did not like the object. I do not remember the second object or the word or the fourth, but i started collecting , and basically i have been collecting for several decades. I did not start out with the anticipation of creating a museum. Becoming not just a collection as teaching tools, i happened much later. Not everyone where you grew up was collecting these items. What was it that me to keep doing it . What was it that made you keep doing it . I dont know. I have been thinking about that a lot. My ancestry, there are people from the bahamas, from trinidad, spain, Indigenous People of this country. I was a multiracial, black identify person in the jim crowh a time when was not as strong as it has been, but there was more of a presence. Historically black my schools, my high schoo
Particularly with china. I refunded . A variety of individuals and corporations. We dont accept any corporate or foreignon money. Several headlines got our attention that w says chinas military has surpassed us in ships and missiles and air defense. Talking about conventional weapons first. So what is the strength of the Chinese Military . Its very impressive. Its daunting. Remember the United States spends more on total that china has been closing the gap and exclusively focused on its own region. So that the age in the pacific the most recent is shifting in chinas direction. Thirty or 40 years ago the Chinese Military was a sophisticated force is no longer the case and they are closing the gap in key areas and that trend is continuing. Mr. Cole be the headline of the Nuclear Arsenal that tells us the china plans to double the nuclearhi arsenal. Talk about that part of the equation. The conventional event is more sobering. It is slated to doubleed in size from a low amount what is con
And accompanied by months of denial and coverup by the Chinese Communist government. As of this hour, neither the white house, nor the Statement Department will reveal the agenda of those talks, nor exactly who is attending the meeting. This kind of secrecy is outside American Government tradition. That is, transparency and forthrightness in u. S. Foreign policy. The meeting is more in line with totalitarian states like china that dont recognize the right of the public to know what their government is doing. The Chinese Government wont acknowledge that a meeting is even being held, let alone what is under discussion. But the meeting comes at a time of heightened hostility between the United States and china. Brought on by beijings coverup and their dispatch of the deadly china virus pandemic, their aggressive military posture in the South China Sea, their recent takeover of hong kong and, of course, that aggressive Disinformation Campaign against the United States. One of this countrys
And accompanied by months of denial and coverup by the Chinese Communist government. As of this hour, neither the white house, nor the Statement Department will reveal the agenda of those talks, nor exactly who is attending the meeting. This kind of secrecy is outside American Government tradition. That is, transparency and forthrightness in u. S. Foreign policy. The meeting is more in line with totalitarian states like china that dont recognize the right of the public to know what their government is doing. The Chinese Government wont acknowledge that a meeting is even being held, let alone what is under discussion. But the meeting comes at a time of heightened hostility between the United States and china. Brought on by beijings coverup and their dispatch of the deadly china virus pandemic, their aggressive military posture in the South China Sea, their recent takeover of hong kong and, of course, that aggressive Disinformation Campaign against the United States. One of this countrys
And accompanied by months of denial and coverup by the Chinese Communist government. As of this hour, neither the white house, nor the Statement Department will reveal the agenda of those talks, nor exactly who is attending the meeting. This kind of secrecy is outside American Government tradition. That is, transparency and forthrightness in u. S. Foreign policy. The meeting is more in line with totalitarian states like china that dont recognize the right of the public to know what their government is doing. The Chinese Government wont acknowledge that a meeting is even being held, let alone what is under discussion. But the meeting comes at a time of heightened hostility between the United States and china. Brought on by beijings coverup and their dispatch of the deadly china virus pandemic, their aggressive military posture in the South China Sea, their recent takeover of hong kong and, of course, that aggressive Disinformation Campaign against the United States. One of this countrys