station are not going to have some really special guest right with us right now dr michael hudson dr mike lots of welcome to be here i was just curious i had his crazy image moment ago you know back in the seventy's 1970 s. there was a movie called death wish with charles bronson remember that i remember that there was a sequel in the sequel to that right now sink in that we could do a remake you are the star you play the charles bronson role is called death wish and here vigilante banker economist that goes around new york blowing away bad debt where you think i love it ok i'll set that up you think you're ready to do that 2020 i would be a very good secretary of the treasury that's exactly what i would do a fantastic i'm not sure that's what we're talking my head into the ring actually we have elections coming up here in this year 2020 or of course part of our epic new series front running so if you were made treasury secretary in 2020 what would you do this year 2020 so i guess you would come into office 2021 in january 2021 would be the 1st thing you did to fix this economy or whateve

states here are not going to have some really special guest right with us right now dr michael hudson dr mike lots of welcome to be here i was just curious i had his crazy image moment ago you know back in the seventy's 1970 s. there was a movie called death wish with charles bronson remember that i remember that there was a sequel in the sequel to that right now sink in that we could do a remake you are the star you play the charles bronson role is called death wish and here vigilante banker economist that goes around new york blowing away bad debt where you think i love and set that up you think you're ready to do that 2020 i would be a very good secretary of the treasury that's exactly what i would do a fantastic i'm not sure that's what we're talking my head into the ring actually we have elections coming up here in this year 2020 or of course part of our epic new series front running so if you were made treasury secretary in 2020 what would you do this year 2020 so i guess you would come into office 2021 in january 2021 would be the 1st thing you did to fix this economy or let it sit dow

station are not going to have some really special guest right with us right now dr michael hudson dr mike lots of welcome to be here i was just curious i had his crazy image moment ago you know back in the seventy's 1970 s. there was a movie called death wish with charles bronson to remember that i remember that there was a sequel in the sequel to that right now sink in that we could do a remake you are the star you play the charles bronson role is called death wish and here vigilante banker economist that goes around new york blowing away bad debt where you think i love it ok i'll set that up you think you're ready to do that 2020 i would be a very good secretary of the treasury that's exactly what i would do i have a fantastic i'm not sure that's what we're talking my head into the ring actually we have elections coming up here in this year 2020 of course part of our ethic new series front running so if you were made treasury secretary in 2020 what would you do this year 2020 so i guess you would come into office 2021 in january 2021 would be the 1st thing you did to fix this economy or

dr. michael pillsbury, director of the center for chinese strategy at the hudson institute, author of "the 100-year marathon," which we recommend to you highly. let me, if i may, first of all, miketh us. >> thank you, lou. lou: your thowbts about what is going on and these confucius institutes and universities here in the united states, the role of those students and their relationship to their government. >> well, i'd say in terms of a chinese strategy, they identified quite a long time ago -- probably at least 20 years ago -- that they were going to have to steal the best technology in the world to keep their growth rate up to be able to surpass us and become the number one economy in the world. they knew that our regular technology control system would block them from buying sensitive technology, so they found many other ways to go in what you might call the back door or softer approaches. and our university system turns out to be one of those back doors. lou: right. >> they tend to have goodwill attitudes towards china. the whole idea of the confucius institutes is to celebrate chinese culture. they have -- lou: and language? >> language, for sure, but they also have the lan