i am very proud of mao's china. because we didn't have-- because we didn't have drug abuse, because everybody had a job, because everyone was taking care of. i am very aware, i don't feel the same way about china today. to see that the environmental degradation, to see my hometown the river was so polluted, to see many poor farmers who is children were no longer able to go to school. win pour farmers when they were sick, they were just left to die. i just feel i could not identify with the country, as strongly as i can with north china. [applause] >> we are going to take one more question from the cards and this question-- could you tell us about how the cultural evolution actually started in your village? >> okay. >> this bybee talking about the red guards. >> there are many-- i was talking before, starting with the army came into the village to teach farmers how to read mel's traditions. they came with a very fascinating format. three came to my house and began to recite. [inaudible] and got me very excited. when

could have succeeded if it had been rejectionist position, even though mao himself had a vision. but what was more confucian than the book? exactly, all confucian, populists are. >> thanks, martin. now going to invite you to raise hands and ask questions. and i said just that when you do so you introduce yourself so that our guest knows who is asking the question, please. >> rich mckeen, harvard institute. why can't the tibetans and the uighurs get on one country, two systems? >> well, it's a very good, very personal question, and i think -- i mean, of course they do, the way to bet and it works is different from other provinces. you could say that's already the case, but -- >> the uighurs and tibetans -- >> no, they wouldn't. but i'm saying the way it actually is is very distinct from -- it's great distinct because the system of governance is a hand dominated governance which tries to incorporate an ethnic group to an ethnic group which do not buy in essentially to the way it works in these two systems at the moment. especially the tibetans have a huge subsidy, central governmen

he began to talk about mao, stalin, the society. he said something sharp to me. he said mao and stalin were simply born into the streets, neighborhood and would randomly shooting people. this is how mao landstuhl will contribute to society [inaudible] i was shocked but no student in that classroom race to the question about that. this is how american students are taught about socialism and communism, right? and i grew up in the countryside both in my appearance parent -- before i went to school most of my cousins and the children older than i was born of an school. during ekimov years the chinese government in power chinese farmers to set up their own schools. if the chinese today are telling the chinese people, telling the world the cultural revolution was natural disaster. at which time suffered tremendously. it was actually the cultural revolution educational reach to the countryside. and i did like research mostly in my own county. before the cultural years there was only one high school in my county, there are 750,000 people in my county at the time. and the

are walking in beijing and mao says i'm not worried about losing a half a million people, as long as we went. >> host: so it is many cases that we are talking that the u2 flight was not occasion, that somebody wanted to blow up all these speedy of camp david. >> guest: do you think now -- when your father was at camp david, before that u2 flight was shot down, there have been others as you mentioned. and of course, your father knew about them. he did not ask ike at camp david. he could have said, mr. president, will you stop flying over my country. why did he not do that? >> host: when i was hit by you i buy eye, and you know that time by time, brought in my apartment, and i will ask you, peter, why are you rubbing my apartment? maybe you will not rob it a second time. my father felt humiliating when they ask him to send protest to the united states. he told them, my presence, to the foreign minister, we cannot shot because it is too high, flying to hi. and i am just hearing, reading this state department, how they laughing at me. the u2 fly pushed these arms race, development of all

also, to a certain extent mao tse-tung.anthers made no, his red book was required reading for panthers. when we would go to meetings we had to read certain portions of the red book. trying to equate this with the international ideas and ideas of how socialism, which-- and i guess we should not mince words about this, the panthers were strongly scientific socialist. that was their professed ideology and the required panther members to do some intellectual work as well as work in the community, so our intellectual abstractions would be grounded in community work, and so we would often be given these international theories to study and to apply their theories to our particular situation in this country.

perceived by those in the military who were giving their lives to see the commander in chief toasting mao tse-tung. we might have a different view of that but it is understandable that you could understand somebody who put their life on the line. how they might interpret it and i think buckley straka near when he said that. >> there is a lot of things in the book that show how certain items such as the party platform are out there but ignored. what would you advise journalist now for looking at foreign policy and the military to do with your experience in mind? >> i think you have to say we don't know what all. we don't know it all to finish the book that covered four years and we don't know it all but it is time to sort of step back and not be so reflexive as we are in foreign policy. it is almost knee-jerk is to what each side is saying or not say or what they are doing are not doing so my advice to them is open your mind and that is not just to journalists. it is to everybody that deals with that, because i lived through these things. many of you that these things that had no idea what

. >> well, for us you know, we were like children of mao,. malcolm x.and we had a tired of seeing some african-americans of being forced to endure to the kinds of brutality in the face of seven insurance and the civil rights movement, that whole and nonviolent movement. we were entirely with that movement. we didn't believe in non-violence. we didn't believe in this notion of some day we will all sunday over,. we wanted to overcome yesterday. so the black panthers were like a tonic to us. it was this group of people who said we will no longer except the kind of brutality that the police were inflicting on our communities without any redress, without any sense of accountability. no one would respond to our please and sp -- the black panther party came along and said, you can't do this anymore. simple as back. we will stop you from doing its. and that to us was like, you know -- is really unimaginable a the kind of effect that that had on young people during that time who were sold under assault from this notion of a racist oppression of. and so the panth

[applause] mao i would like to invite thomas stanton up to the podium. mr.tanton is the author and editor of a couple of books on government managed entities, and he is a fellow at the center for the study of american government at johns hopkins. thank you. >> it is a pleasure to be here, and ralph has arranged a program so that everybody can hear various alternatives and really wait for yourselves the pros and cons. i happen to be the author of a book, a state of risk, will government sponsored enterprises be the next financial crisis? that book was written in 1991, so you can tell my timing was off. but, in fact, you can point out the structural and liabilities of an institution, but what you don't know is when the stresses will head that actually bring it down. so what i would like to do today is first talk about why they failed, fannie mae and freddie mac and then make a couple of points about their future. and then leave time for dialogue, which in this kind of form is really important. there are a number of reasons why fannie and freddie failed. i woul