they sit deng xiaoping at the table with shirley mcclain, the actress shirley maclaine.she has just been to china a few years earlier with the documentary team and she is a good 70's leftists. so she begins to gush to deng xiaoping how they were out of this farm and they met this professor who is working on the farm. this was part of a culture revolution when mao sent the intellectual to the countryside. mcclain is going on and on about how great this was an deng xiaoping listens to her and then he says that it's ridiculous. professor should be teaching in universities. they shouldn't be planting crops. that was pretty much his verdict on the cultural revolution. a lot of the china scholars at the time still bought into maoism and these ideas. this is one of the reasons why it was so hard for them to understand the reforms going on in china. if you go back to the accounts of the time, a lot of the established china scholars didn't quite get the story. they didn't understand what they were seeing. a lot of them were still wedded to these old images now as china and in som

china now, i think it's fair to say thank you was the person who consolidated that opening with deng xiaoping in a period of less celebrated, probably no less important. and i want to ask you to think about come with us but with the chinese have been saying through the new president, xi jinping, that they are seeking a new form of great power relationship with the united states. i know you just have been in china, thinking about china and please share some thoughts with us. >> one of the things, china is really the growth of asia generally in terms of its economic power. and within china's growth is going to be a real opportunity but also a challenge or the united states over the next couple of decades. one of the things i worry about quite frankly is that doctor brzezinski and print and henry kissinger in many ways have carried the u.s.-china relationship. and madeleine and others have done, have been treated in office, but they have really been for 40 years the face, u.s.-based to u.s.-china relations. and i worry about where our country will be over the next 20 years. i think the statement