i think the problem is with walter cronkite people see him as a friendly man which he was to everybody but there s another side of him that wanted to be the best. he was obsessed with ratings, the report every might yet he is probably the fiercest competitor ever written about, and i ve written about presidents and generals and the desire to be the best was very pronounced. former national intelligence officer on his biography of chinese leader. this is a little more than an hour. welcome to the cambridge forum discussing deng ziaoping and the transformation of china. i am michael professor of chinese history at harvard and i will serve as the moderator. it s a pleasure for me to introduce ezra vogel the henry ford second professor of the social sciences emeritus at harvard and expert on both japan and china he s visited asia every year since 1958. over his career he s offered or co-authored 50 books and many articles through academic and popular journals. the japanese ed
and certainly before she announced her candidacy for parliament. as you mentioned, the election will actually take place on sunday. throughout the course of studying her life, did you ever imagine that it would take a turn like this? with the elections to be held on sunday, how do you see her future unfolding? i don t think that one road out the possibility that things would change again. it seemed unlikely, but in 2002, there was an opening. in 2004, negotiations started with her. really, we needed to get [inaudible name] out of the picture, and then because he could not stand her name or anything about her, do you think he s really out of the picture? i believe so, yes, we were discussing this before and i thought it was hard to believe that he is in countenance with what is happening now. he decided to assassinate her in 2003, and he did not succeed. one did not see her coming. everyone was stunned and amazed and delighted when things started to move in august of sep