to understand how, we need to remember china's first leader mao zedong. one of the world's most notorious revolutionaries, held bent on destroying western capitalism. >> retracted guerrilla war accomplished its ames. >> inspiring and aided insurgencies all over the globe. >> burma, thailand, malaysia, the philippines, the kaka mere ruth in cambodia. >> they called it the marxist movement. >> in america the shining page movement. >> even a nuclear apocalypse was acceptable to mao in his great struggle. if worst came to worst and half of mankind died, he said, imperialism would be raised to the ground and the whole world would become socialists. mao's successor xiaoping had a popular approach. his main goal was to make his poverty-stricken country rich, so he opened its borders to trade and saw peaceful coexistence with the west. >> dong xiaoping came up with a theory he called hide your strength and bide your time. just steadily invest in the chinese economy and just ease your way in to the international system. >> the first peacekeeping engineering unit.

we're talking about is kind of thought and equaling that of mao zedong and karl marx. there is much that can bedone and i think here's an opportunity . i predict coming out of the olympics whatever may happen specifically there's going to be a lot more of the united front against communist china. you can feel those elements comingtogether right now . >> i was impressed to look at all the new stories today, reporting on our athletes being there across the board. they are uniformly critical of china so i thought that was good news. lee, you and i both been a lot of our career at the collapse of the upcoming and other side of the world in the soviet union and former eastern europe. i was thinking back about what our lessons that we can learn from that experience that help to bring down that version of communism. i think one of the ones that to me is probably the number one most important factor was when ronald reagan came out and called the sovietunion evil . and i don't see our current leaders doing that, do you? >> i think with our talking about the genocide games, i th

more prosperous, more confident nation under mr xi,m the country's most powerfuler leader since mao zedong. bu wow,t but that's nothing compared to the slobbering praise the ccp gets from our very own elites. since the onset of the pandemic, china has worked a hard to not only contain the virus but also contributed to closing the equity gap by supporting other countries with many different supplies, including great vaccines. i look forward to once again being able to travel to chinall to see all of you and this work in person. it is shameful. now senate minority leader mitch mcconnell has a lot ofmc warhawks in his senate caucus, including himself. but if he wants to avoid being thrown out by another populist uprising and 20 twenty four , he needs to resist the war machines temptation. now this may be wishful thinking, but he ought to, make it very clear to biden that the gop does nothe g support sending our troops to eastern europe. well, to folks who think we're fundamentally racist, who think our military is filled with o extremists, let them own this . we have enough failed war baggage