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This may be where we can get cooperation with the russians. And the printers row lit fest continues. Up next, author david kalan talks about modern day philanthropy. Philanthropy. Good afternoon and welcome to the thinking tribune annual lit fest. Id like to. We have a grayhaired approval. I met him in downtown new york city literary regular parties and gatherings that use to invite people, fact brigades and phone brigades before the internet and knew him over the years and went on to work with him when running World Policy Institute and he was at the most National Think tank, we worked closely on a number of projects, so i had the pleasure to read his earlier books, the cheating culture, the moral center, he has written seven of them and i have always been impressed by david because he asks really hard questions. He comes up with an opinion but is very good about seeing both sides and trying to find where things come together and where we can come up with solutions. He is not an ideol
So, what do you do about it . Well, the only country that actually has influence with the North Koreans is probably china. But the chinese have always been more fearful of the collapse of the regime than of a nuclear regime. So theyve refused to tighten the screws on the North Koreans and they could do a lot. They could close the border. They could deny them fuel oil. The chinese could really hurt the regime. The chinese have to be convinced that they now have to do whatever it takes to stop this regime and when you hear the administration say, if you wont deal with the North Koreans, we will, thats the message that theyre sending. Now, the we will is kind of ugly because if you want to look at military options, youre looking at seoul, which is very vulnerable and very close to the border, to the doe militarized zone. The North Koreans could do a lot of damage, a lot of civilian casualties, very quickly in seoul. So the options are not very good. Its complicated by the new president in
We have a grayhaired approval. Literarily, used by acts for days and phone for days before the internet. So i knew him over the years from the literary world and went on to work with him when i was running the World Policy Institute and he was at the National Think tank. We worked together very, veryk, close me on a number of projects. So ive had the pleasure also to read some of his earlier books, the world center, hes written seven of them. Ive always been so impressed by david because he asks the really hard questions. He comes up with an opinion, but hes very good about seeing both sides in trying to find where things come together and where we can come up with solutions. Hes not an ideologue. Hes the real deal. I could not be happier to see david in chicago today. I want to kick off by showing off a couple numbers he talks about in his new book dream to. , he notes that in 2015, nearly 400 billion, with the beef was given globally to about 2 of the u. S. Gdp and that taxexempt org