the ninety's after the fall of the berlin wall so today it was directed to countries the former eastern bloc the same pattern was repeated in afghanistan and iraq during the war on terror . if you have took aboard diplomacy it's a very subtle way of pushing a national agenda. to another country you know because if you if you've seen even more so because the training elephants to their training even cheap and since they use food is that if you don't train much upon such a dance like a human being you keep rewarding it with a little biscuit or something so next time vindictive you jump up american people saying jump up you jump up see what i mean. from very early on africa became the focus of attention as the u.s. and soviet union were trying to gain zones of influence countries like somalia ethiopia and kenya received help. there's a lot of pieces with this would be easy to prove to them or the police doesn't mean that the united states is doing business to actually providing you know the same time. there's no politics behind going in there we're trying to do things in a way that is most effe

the situation is less acute in eastern germany where day care was a priority in eastern bloc times. there is a day care center in frankfurt. >> our capacity here is completely exhausted. the coats rooms, and more children. >> it is hard to keep disappointed parents that want to have their children taken care of here. parents should use their new rights in this to -- and sue. that is the only way to wake authorities up. >> current legislation is a definite improvement on what we have before. i also believe that ultimately, all parents will get a day care spot. but with less space of one or two years. >> they have hired a nanny, a lot more expensive than public daycare have a plan to sue the government for the difference. >> germany's opposition, democrats racing to turn their campaign around. >> the efforts to unseat german chancellor merkel, the party is pledging to fight for a legal minimum rage, -- wage and low rent. >> they are not the only one struggling to assert dominance. >> she still holds the best hand. the left party could still pull out an ace and the free democrats. opin

the situation is less acute in eastern germany where day care was a priority in eastern bloc times. there is a day care center in frankfurt. >> our capacity here is completely exhausted. the coats rooms, and more children. >> it is hard to keep disappointed parents that want to have their children taken care of here. parents should use their new rights in this to -- and sue. that is the only way to wake authorities up. >> current legislation is a definite improvement on what we have before. i also believe that ultimately, all parents will get a day care spot. but with less space of one or two years. >> they have hired a nanny, a lot more expensive than public daycare have a plan to sue the government for the difference. >> germany's opposition, democrats racing to turn their campaign around. >> the efforts to unseat german chancellor merkel, the party is pledging to fight for a legal minimum rage, -- wage and low rent. >> they are not the only one struggling to assert dominance. >> she still holds the best hand. the left party could still pull out an ace and the free democrats. opin

during the ninety's after the fall of the berlin wall it was directed to countries the former eastern bloc the same pattern was repeated in afghanistan and iraq during the war on terror. if you have took aboard diplomacy it's a bit of a subtle way of pushing a message of agenda. to another country you know because if you if you've seen even more so because the training elephants for their training in japan since they use food is that if you don't train much confidence like a human being you keep rewarding it with a little biscuit or something so next time vindictive you jump up american people saying jump up you jump up see what i mean. from very early on africa became the focus of attention as the u.s. and soviet union were trying to gain zones of influence countries like somalia ethiopia and kenya received help. there's a little peace is good as it would be easy to prove to them or the police doesn't mean that the united states is doing business to actually be providing you know the time. there's no politics behind going in there we're trying to do things in a way that is most effective

yugoslavia or east germany which seemed like the most successful, economically successful of the eastern bloc. so i think that just goes to underline how unlikely and how surprising these changes were when they happened. and as i tell in the book, a great way to tell this story in china is by going back and looking at what people were looking at at the time. i have this story where an american investor is brought to a place and told he should invest and he just sees water buffalo and rice paddies. that place they took him to which is a city that has the population of new york city and your ipad was made there, right? i think there are a lot of great ways to tell the story. some people told them at the time, very, very vividly. there have been great books right at the time of these changes in china but nowadays i think people have forgotten that story. so i had a lot of fun trying to bring it back to life. >> host: that raises a question that applies both to china and i think across the stories that you look at in the book. and that is, how right or wrong were we at the time? as you looked bac

country itself will get hit about 300,000 times a day for people trying to get in, mainly from eastern bloc organized criminals, to try to get in and steal a block of numbers in a bigger way in order to steal both personal information as well as your credit card information, and turned it into a criminal profit. we have the next level up, certainly one where talked about frequently, chinese primarily, economic espionage, where a nationstate has geared its military and intelligence services toward this single focus stealing intellectual property, taking it back, repurpose and that intellectual property and competing illegal against both u.s., european, asian companies, of which they sell that property. huge problem. keith alexander, the director of the nsa, has called the probably the largest transfer of wealth illegally in the world history. many believe it's pushing $2 trillion in value of lost and stolen intellectual property. so these are the blueprints of companies. they can win. they spend as much time as they need to spend. they will have his long process of threats. they will lay the

bloc, but some have criticized tax policy. the country has been attracting many investors from eastern europe with its low tax rates. >> that's great for real tax havens and after cyprus collapsed, latvia is ready to follow in its footsteps -- after cyprus collapsed. >> current members held that when latvia adopts the europe on january 1, new coins will continue to symbolize independence and strength. >> onto the markets now, and while the expansion of the eurozone is seen as good news, it was the strong start to earnings season in the united states that prompted investors to send shares to their highest levels in a month. our correspondence sent us this summary of the tuesday trading session in frankfurt -- our correspondent sent us the summary. >> just today, the euro dropped to the lowest level since the beginning of april. one reason is, of course, that the u.s. economy is coming out of the doldrums a bit better than the eurozone, which, for a large chunk, is still persistingly in recession, and for the other part, it seems there is a serious cooling down, even in the german economy. alcoa kicked off the earnings season i

bloc, but some have criticized tax policy. the country has been attracting many investors from eastern europe with its low tax rates. >> that's great for real tax havens and after cyprus collapsed, latvia is ready to follow in its footsteps -- after cyprus collapsed. >> current members held that when latvia adopts the europe on january 1, new coins will continue to symbolize independence and strength. >> onto the markets now, and while the expansion of the eurozone is seen as good news, it was the strong start to earnings season in the united states that prompted investors to send shares to their highest levels in a month. our correspondence sent us this summary of the tuesday trading session in frankfurt -- our correspondent sent us the summary. >> just today, the euro dropped to the lowest level since the beginning of april. one reason is, of course, that the u.s. economy is coming out of the doldrums a bit better than the eurozone, which, for a large chunk, is still persistingly in recession, and for the other part, it seems there is a serious cooling down, even in the german economy. alcoa kicked off the earnings season i

united states versus some of the western countries and it was the soviet bloc -- soviet union, soviet controlled easternurope. information was sealed off. we talk about the iron curtain, but there was an information curtain. so, either you've got the local regime controlled news or you've got news from outside or you had no news. countriesve got some like that. north korea, i would say, is one. still pretty close off. cuba is one. but you've got in a lot of countries that don't have free media, a huge amount of arab world.in the hundreds and hundreds of arab language satellite tv channels. this from the broadcasting board of governors shows the areas in red where u.s. international broadcasting reaches some of the countries where there is not free media. guest: that's right. and where we have partially free media -- you have lots of voices but you don't necessarily have the kind of accurate fact check -- fact checked, reason the contextual discussion the u.s. broadcasters strive strive to put on the air and the internet and the handheld devices. host: we are talking with ross johnson, wilson center seni