for two decades, jeremy haft has been in china and he has overseen export and import programs between american and chinese enterprises. spanning shipbuilding and refineries, to auto parts and medical supplies, to maple syrup and cow hides. jeremy's start-up is a private and public partnership funded by a grant, to build export markets in china for new york agriculture. prior to his china work, he was the founder of one of the first internet ad agencies in new york city, ranked in the top five and acquired in 1997. he is an adjunct professor at georgetown. and he is the author the recent "unmade in china" which examines competitive advantages over china. he has spoken to members of congress, ambassadors, and the business community. his analysis has also been featured in the wall street journal, the financial times, u.s. news and world report, npr, bbc, and other cable and media outlets. with that said, please help me welcome jeremy haft [applause] jeremy: thank you. thank you so much. thank you, karen. thank you for coming. thank you for hosting this. i confess that i was the one that

with that said, please help me to welcome jeremy haft. [applause] jeremy thank you very much. : thank you all for coming today. thank you for the world affairs council of colorado springs for hosting us. i confess that i was the one who voted for no podium. i tend to get lost. it's the darndest thing. when i started doing business in china 20 years ago i was 6'4". , part of the thing i want to talk to about, the view on the ground in china is very different from what we hear in our politics. the topic today is timely. we have president xi arriving to trump meet with president to talk about a host of pressing issues. and so doing, i want to bring your attention to a study that was referred to in a book. it is called "unspun." it is about a science experiment done during the kerry-bush election where they took a focus group of partisan democrats and partisan republicans and they wired their crania up to these electrical wires where they are going to measure waves. in front of these people they flashed very political statements, so one statem