today, one such wang hong is holding an event at the prestigious shanghai university.ver 700 an captainpplicaap graduate and undergraduate students are able to attend. a young man takes the stage. >> he became famous by uploading english tutorials for students studying for entrance exams. his 270 videos have been viewed more than 270 million times. his visual blogs are explanations of his published english textbooks. today, he's announcing a new digital dictionary to be published in november. and $73 is not cheap, but it can be used on any electronic device, with new words added free of charge every year. along with a video explaining them. ju believes this will become the largest and most ground breaking dictionary in china. he made $3 million last year alone. through online videos, sales of textbooks and lectures held all over china. >> he now has more than 1.3 million registered viewers. through social media, he shares the mistakes he's made himself and addresses concerns expressed by his young audience. ♪ >> with china's one-child policy, he's like a big brother to

of course, my university, peking university, and chief university, shanghai institute, shanghai academy of social sciences, nanjing university, and many others. we held dozens of closed-door debates and discussions. some were small-group meetings. and we also held many meetings with our american counterparts in beijing, washington, d.c., or new york city. the end result is the attorneys' report publicized in both chinese and english, and we also want to thank csis for publicizing the chinese report, and the chinese report in both english and chinese are already edited in the volume, which will be published by the chinese academy of social sciences, published inhouse. i hope it will come out pretty soon. and in may of this year, we launched a rollout event in beijing similar to the one we are holding today in washington, d.c. we have people from csis and other think tanks from the united states. this is simply my story, the chinese side of the story. equally important, or even more important, is the -- is that after a few rounds of consultations, csis made the decision to help us and to

i was going to visit shanghai, beijing and check our resources at different universities, but that was about it. what really struck me was mr. caro's reaction. he was incredibly encouraging and he encouraged me to pursue whatever topic i was interested in. so afterward, mr. caro inspired me to actually go contacted and interviewed different american and chinese diplomats and professors and i can honestly say that my perspective on the topic has been fundamentally changed by all those interactions that i've had with the witness and diplomats. and i also remember mr. caro saying that one of the reasons he studies political power is political power from 40, 50 or 60 years ago still affects all of our lives today. i always remember that because i think the ruling cap so it's one of the reasons why people study history and white so important today. of course i would like to thank mr. caro because he's really an inspiration and it's really inspired me in all of my time. i would also like to thank my mentor, mr. livestock, it wouldn't have been possible without him. i would also like to thank

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university of oxford. i wanted to ask you about zapad in the context of the shanghai cooperation organization.i'm wondering if the sco matters these days in your view as you focus on the military theater particularly as it expands to include other nations? >> i mentioned earlier that i would like the conversation about these military exercises and the need for transparency about military exercises generally to be internationalized and to be brought out of the trans-atlantic concept. when it comes to sco, i'm not really sure what we can do because sco itself, the united states is not a member, i don't believe any nato members are members. so we -- and the agenda is very much controlled by the kremlin, by beijing. so i think we can engagewith those countries. i'm not sure whether it makes sense to engage through that organization. >> one component or interesting bit of information concerning china,that it's not in the framework of zapad per se. but as i said before, a whole range of different exercises going on during this season. and first we're going to see the russian navy exercising with chinese navy fir

university of oxford. i wanted to ask you about zapa in the shanghai organization. i'm wondering if the sco matters in these days in your view as you focus on the european theatre particular lir as it expands to other nations. >> so i mentioned earlier that i would like the conversation about these military exercises and about the need for transparency about military exercises generally to be international liezed and be brought out of the transatlantic context so other countries and members of the sco can help us put pressure on the russians to come back in alignment with their agreements and commitments. when it comes to sco, i'm not sure what we can do because sco itself, the united states is not a member, i don't believe any nato members are members. so we -- and it's very much -- the agenda is very much controlled by the kremlin, by beijing. so i think we can engage with those countries. i'm not sure whether it makes sense to engage through that organization. >> maybe just one component or one interesting bit of information concerning china that -- it's not in t

university of oxford. i wanted to ask you about zapa dmnk the context of the shanghai cooperation organization. i think there's just a tendency to look at russia as principally a western european actor, and i'm wondering if the sco matters in these days in your view as you focus on the european theater, particularly as it expands to include other nations? thank you. >> i guess -- >> talked to him about enga engagement with that, east. >> so, i mentioned earlier that i would like the conversation about these military exercises and about the need for transparency about military exercises generally to be internationalized and to be brought out of the transatlantic context so that other countries that have equities, like china and india and other members of the sco, can also help us, frankly speaking, put pressure on the russians to come back in alignment with their conventional arms control agreements and their commitments. when it comes to sco, i don't really -- i'm not really sure what we can do, because sco itself, we're not -- the united states is not a member. i don't believe any nato members