asko, it's a great pleasure to be asked to be here by one of the heroes of the conservative movement. growing and updated not really have that many people to -- is, went to school in the 80's '80su really didn't have that many people to look up to who had the courage to combat really the, just this cultural tsunami that was washing over traditional america. and it's a great pleasure to be asked to be here. so "bowing to beijing," the book came out last year. i spent four years in china. before i went there, i had a kind of a typical, i'd say, conservative view of our relationship with beijing. and that was this idea that the u.s. relationship with china predicated on this big gamble. and the gamble is if we increase our relationship with china, trade with them more, they'll eventually become more like us. and that if we make them richer, automatically they'll become freer. and as people in china become, get more economic rights over time, they'll demand for political rights. that's a gamble on our side. one of the three cease of my -- theses of my book is that's not necessarily occurr