he inherits this policy on south vietnam or vietnam.i want to talk about continuities and structures is but one thing that's frustrating at least from my perspective today, is that kennedy, the candidate, had a different or more subtle view of wars of national liberation or national liberation movements. post-world war two than, say, eisenhower. right. he had some respect for people's attempts to establish independence from colonialism. he even was in vietnam in the 1950s, where he kind of concluded was not a war for us to fight. john f kennedy like other senators and even, you know, members of the eisenhower administration, realized that colonialism was a losing proposition. all the empires were being broken up and the post-world war two environment, everybody wanted independence and we recognized that south vietnam needed independence in order for the people to rally against the communists. but at the same time, south vietnam never really had independence because it was utterly dependent on american aid for its survival. we paid for m

another, another option, it was no longer the defeat of kisenger, because he demanded help for south vietnamitical moment, another very... interesting point is how tissenger treated the puppets, you understand, this is very interesting, here is his experience of communicating with american puppets, here is gonen hieu with cambodian puppets, this is a very good lesson for all those who today pin their hopes on the fact that the americans, here they are standing behind and that at any moment they can do something, you know, well, for example, nugen van heaveu cried when there the paris peace agreements were being prepared, he allocated 69 amendments to the government of south vietnam with this... he said that i would not accept a single one, and despite the fact that nixon called him there, because he contacted washington there, he said, we will not let's take none, i need to sign this agreement with these the agreement will be signed with amendments. nguyen vankyu sobbed, he fell, he simply portrayed , so to speak, an absolute tragedy, but kishin was absolutely cold, and the same thing, he wa

were being prepared there, he allocated 69 amendments to these agreements to the government of south vietnamccept a single one, and despite the fact that nixon called us there, because so to say, an absolute tragedy, qishen was absolutely cold and the same thing he was cold when in seventy-four, the chinese captured the paracel islands, having complete, so to speak, mutual relations with south vietnam, and the south vietnamese people there on these military on on these islands, that part of the parcels that was from south vietnam was requested, the seventh fleet was stationed nearby to help, nothing, that’s all, because shanghai was taken out, but there were other people there, in this regard in... well, there was such a prince erik matak, a very famous person, in fact, one of the real ones, he even had the opportunity to become the khmmer king, so he was the second man of the khmmer republic, and he really believed in the americans, he was very close to them, now the seventy-fifth year is ending already, he the red kmers come to phnom peni, the americans suggest to him that we should be mor

in south vietnam, where, where they control part of the territory and the south vietnamese government. the other part, we could have ended that war by them, by the middle of 1970, if it hadn't been for the, the cambodian crew and any invasion. when you have 550000 troops involved and you have already lost 35000, you can test it. and it's all like a television said and said, we don't care about the people who it rely ends on. i would have cast if they'd uh, with us and to technically how to get 500000 people out of a country. if you think of them properly and people have no evacuating a few 100 people. so we saw the systematic retreat lived, strengthening the people who we had supported was a necessary cause. and in fact, uh so i think there was no answer because the americans pictured the war ending in trial. instead, they were dependent on the goodwill of their enemies and kissed inches. negotiating counterpart later told the super pallet was humiliated. she said you have to give his old package to the faith as the honorable withdrawal which has been promised. it was not a pleasant e

in quarterback mom, south vietnam. during the at the time offensive at just 21. james was also a native of georgia. and deployed to vietnam in 1968. he was an s.p.-4 in the army's 25th infantry division. while in vietnam, out of a total of 100 days in theater, he also saw 65 days of combat. dan james was killed in action by you small arms fire on december 29, 1968. in south vietnam. he was recently married and was just 20 years old. their fellow georgian, william edward sapp was born on march 12, 1943. he joined the army's fourth infantry division during the war reaching the rank of specialist 4. while deployed in vietnam, he served 114 days in combat of a total of 175 days in theater. william sapp was killed in action on june 7, 1968 in south vietnam at the age of 25. at last, but certainly not le least, frankie lee smiley was born in miami, florida. he joined the marine corps and rose to the rank of lance corporal in the first marine division. he was deployed to vietnam in 1968. he served 205 days in theater with 133 days of combat. lance corporal smiley was kil

this treasury secretary and my trips to india, indonesia south, vietnam and of course the region. recognizing this big picture the biden administration is pursuing an approach to the indo pacific that furthers our country's long history of engagement and the importance per for our and the world's future. as president biden laid out in his indo pacific strategy, the united states is committed to an indo pacific that is free and open connected, prosperous and secure and resilient. the administration is working to tackle challenges and seize opportunities including securing our supply chains and supporting america's workers. to spur growth we are deepening economic integration in harnessing technological transformations. to build resilience where partner in cross the region to address climate change, strengthen health systems and in response to threats to human rights and international laws if we are standing up to economic coercion and strengthening democratic governance. our economic ties underpinning our approach to the indo pacific. in my remarks today i will highlight key priori

was uh, volunteer and served in the vietnam war, and the definition success was we would occupy south vietnam and uh, that can't go on forever, that's not success, and for the israelis, they haven't defined success, some some of their, some of the leaders said success means getting all the palestinians pushed into egypt, uh, but if you don't define success, then you won't know when you've got. there uh, for example, i remember back when the the chinese communists were angry with the vietnamese communist for what they were doing, said, we're going to go in for vietnam for three weeks and fight them and hurt them and then we're going to leave, very specific definition of what success was, but almost always throughout military history, people get involved in wars and they don't define what success is, and so it drags on and more and more people get hurt. all right, thank you for that, we appreciated pault academic and commentator there talking to us from aervine california. thank you for your thoughts. moving on, israeli forces have killed five palestinians during violent attacks of the occupied

republic of china, a completely separate topic, there are satellite states such as south korea, south vietnamwan, the republic of china, there are these same tigers, and there is the non-aligned movement, there is a very powerful force led by from india, indonesia, let's remember the glorious era, all the games of the soviet union with the non-aligned movement, the famous tour of khrushchev and bulganin to asia in 1955, this , of course, was such a very specific approach to him and of course the impact of the tour with him of course, the pro-american japanese prime minister kishi in 57-58 cannot be compared, although he tried, let’s say, if not to build, then at least to build a non-communist phalanx under the leadership of the united states, but still with some kind of pan-asian tinge, that is ... let’s put it this way, these are not american puppets like lisenman in south korea, this is still an attempt to build a non-communist asia, well , due to the fact that the pacific ocean was not the main theater, there may be a general level of tension was lower in some in moments, tension simply sp

even know south vietnam collapsed two years later. as nixon's presidency deteriorated during the watergate coverup, kissinger himself avoided any involvement with the scandal, and after nixon resigned in 1974, president ford thought so highly of kissinger he was kept on as secretary of state kissinger left government in 1977, but his profile barely diminished in the ensuing ensuing decadade consulted by congress and even george w. bush until the end, henry kissinger was in the spotlight a man who mattered chris clack ham, nbc news. >>> the temporary cease-fire between israel and hamas in gaza has been extended. the israeli military says the negotiations for further pris mur exp prisoner-e c exchanges are ongog what do we know about the extension of the cease-fire? >> reporter: phillip, good morning to you what we know is that this deal was expected to end at midnight eastern time, with just before there was a deal reached between hamas and israel, which would extend the cease-fire by at least a day. we understand the same rules apply.

scenarios, and there may be a huge number of scenarios, let’s remember the vietnamese war and in south vietnamfive inaccurate regimes during the vietnam war the dictators were changed, and of course, what is the agenda, of course, not a military agenda, yes, because the entire elite, the same zaluzhny, and budanov, and zelensky, they are actually corrupted by the west, to a greater or lesser extent, but the corrupted west, so the scenario is the same , anti-corruption, they stole in ukraine, they always stole after the collapse of the soviet union, there was money-grabbing, corruption has always flourished, so this is the best scenario to present to western society, therefore... this dictator, a puppet, can be exchanged for another puppet dictator, but the residents of ukraine will not get better from this, we really need to denazify ukraine and transfer the country to a neutral status, in the future this state should become a friendly state in relation to the russian federation, but we must decide its fate, fighting nazism, fascism and necessarily having won in this fight, news that, in fact,

nobel peace prize he shared in 1973 with north vietnam for negotiating peace there, even though south vietnam collapsed two years later. as nixon's presidency deteriorated during the watergate coverup, kissinger himself avoided any involvement with the scandal and after nixon resigned in 1974, president ford thought so highly of him he was al thous at continue as secretary of state . > until the end, henry kissinger was in the spotlight a man who mattered chris clackum, nbc news. >>> former first lady rosalynn carter was laid to rest in the small town she called home, plains, georgia. friends and family, including former president jimmy carter gathered to say good-bye the former first lady was remembered for her lifetime of service and for caring for those in need. >>> the political future of george santos will soon face a major test congress is expected to hold a vote tomorrow to decide whether or not to expel the indicted new york lawmaker from their ranks brie jackson joins us from d.c this is the third attempt now to expel santos what are the chances it's going to happen this time? >> rep

at history, even at the height of the vietnam war, when there was fighting in every major city, south vietnams at its height, when there was the greatest threat to anyone who dared to go out and vote. iraq still held democratic elections and people still came to vote. now president biden has declared his mission to protect democracy and destroy autocracies. but he continues to take money from our pockets to support the war of one corrupt autocracy of ukraine against another russia. so, the real reason why zelsky declared the choice vzan is to stop anyone who dares to criticize the rampant corruption in ukraine or the war. those in our government who support him must also believe that when the united states is at war, it too will be justified in overturning our elections. and now i want to show you zelsky, who seems reasonable. this is a video from a cemetery. i wish you good health, dear ukrainians, ukrainians, this video of the treasure trove of prisoners, bakhmut, which unfortunately could not be removed from there in time. like every city of our dear our homeland, glory to ukraine, i don’t

that was multicity coordinated attack by themm communist enemis in south vietnam, a number of cities in american and south vietnamese and right at the time the americans were told the wharves goin' better, it doesn't make sense how the attack was possible and it's not going better and walter cronkite turned on the war at that point and in the nightly news and his health afters t bigger factor ad people assumed he must have stepped down because vietnam wasn't going very well and at lady bird's diary and johnson planned as early as 1965 after winning in 1964 he had the term that he finished of kennedys and '63 and '64 and additional term and not running for another term of office just as this political hero hairy true man didn'tin run in 52 and he was aware of historical precedent in the democratic party. he really lab bored over that decision in a while his own father died at age 60 and he died youngrt and came down short post-presidency and dying four years later at age 64. >> the first of major conclusions which is discussed and has to do with the johnson nixon and lbj decided on ma

and are china some weather coming back into central and southern parts, vietnam and down into the south of todd. i received over a $130.00 millimeters afraid in 24 hours. and then also you stream on safe driving for the showers and across the is particular part of the south trying to say, just pushing down towards south vietnam. moving down pulls around the gulf of thailand, nature. some are all the live the showers to particular into that to west, inside borneo as we go through the next couple of days. the possibility that a bit of local us flooding just coming in here show as to when to some entre java. the usual ration shows that continuing across the good parts of the philippines and further east day, which was popular beginning seeing some live you satisfied with the next couple of days and we have some showers brewing to just around the central positive australia up towards the kimberly where to whether to go through the next couple of days will actually just drift this way. inland is that eastern side of the australia photo pos. ground actually yeah. 5 is the areas this. so hopef

on november 2, 1963, president ngodinh was overthrown and assassinated in south vietnam.y units captured key installations in saigonei and surrounded the presidential palace. us ambassador. received instructions not to interfere with the puschists, and the cia financed and instructed them. the americans were dissatisfied with the diem regime, which they themselves brought to power. he practiced corruption, mass terror, persecuted buddhists and turned the entire population against himself. but most importantly, he failed to cope with the task set by washington, to fight the communist partisans. it was decided to replace the government. president diem fled, but then surrendered to the rebels, and the americans did not prevent his execution. new coups followed. its influence, the united states sent half a million troops to vietnam, but 12 years later they were defeated in an inglorious war. on november 2, 2018, the first and only reactor in murmansk was launched world of a floating power unit, academician lomonosov. then it was towed to its permanent location in the city of

evacuated from vietnam, we are talking about april 2, 1975 years, allegedly by consent government of south vietnamonger existed at all, so they allegedly gave consent to this and some 77 volunteer organizations organized this trip. during these flights, one of the planes crashed, 78 children died, and according to other sources, 155 children died. not only that, out of these 2,500 children, 1,900 were not placed under guardianship, they were adopted by the americans, the americans, the country that fought on the territory, on the territory of vietnam, which took out without asking anyone about these children, it turned out that there were about 600 children , they were transferred to european countries and adopted there, about 600 children, even when the government of southern vietnam was ending its term, it turned to a number of european companies that provided this flight, with claims, that is, you took them out without our consent, he says, we don’t know anything, we don’t know anything, we have already adopted them. we have already found the children, go to the garden, we, go, sue, that’s it,

our communist enemies in south vietnam on a number of cities and american and south vietnamese military installations. right at a time when americans were told the war was going better, it didn't make sense. this attack were possible that maybe it's not going better. and walter cronkite, i think famously began to turn on the war at that point in his coverage in the nightly news. so johnson's health, i think, a much bigger factor. people assumed that because it was a vietnam speech and it was just after the tet offensive that he must have stepped down because vietnam going very well when in fact ladybirds diary and other new evidence suggests johnson had planned as early as 1965 after winning in 1964 that he would he the term that he finished of kennedy's. 63 to 64 that he would have his additional term, but that he would not run for another term of office just as his hero, harry truman, had not run again in 1952. johnson was always very aware of sort of historical precedent, especially within the democratic party. so i think he'd really labored over that decision a while. his father had

so the cycle and south vietnam, in april 1975 inches, piece of equipment was moved the north vietnamese to psych on americans and south vietnamese loss. frantically left the city the the chest of drawers for the cartridge and remains to this day for conscious of the fact that every time the united states pulls out of the country, leaving unfinished foreign policy commitment behind. it makes it more difficult the next time around. to get some country to commit itself to a joint venture with the united states. the cost of change which included ford's cheapest off donald rumsfeld was on high list use out to viet nam, suggested impending chaos. the officials to base interest to us should respond with bones submitted to withdrawal, account to our tech talk to him and i should just, she's going pop. we have to do some shit at all. you'll have to talk to the present. there were some tensions between henry and forge not present for himself, but his people the default as to all this effort to least we could do it ourselves. getting these with all the infections was not the cut off. hey, you unde

-ally south vietnam. >> the withdrawal from vietnam was an american tragedy.er never expressed regret over vietnam or any decision. in 2003, he told jim lehrer the priority was to put vietnam aside so he could focus elsewhere. >> all you could do is try to preserve a minimum of dignity and save as many lives as you could. nick: kissinger's peace efforts extended to the middle east. in october 1973, egypt and syria attacked israel on yom kippur. kissinger held so many regional meetings, he helped create the term shuttle diplomacy. it helped lead to israeli-egypt negotiations, and edged the soviet union out of the middle east. kissinger's concern over communism, and his realpolitik, peaked in chile. in 1973, the u.s. helped the military overthrow the democratically elected socialist government and install general augusto pinochet. pinochet's military dictatorship caused the death, disappearance, and torture of more than 40,000 chileans. but kissinger's priority was preventing communist dominos from falling, as he told the newshour's elizabeth farnsworth in 2001.

40, 47 children, they evacuated from this year, allegedly with the consent of the government of south vietnamnteer organizations organized this trip, during these flights, one of the planes crashed, 78 children died, and according to other sources, 155 children died, there was no placed under guardianship, but were adopted by americans, by americans, then by the country that fought on the territory of vietnam, which took them out without asking anyone about these... it turned out that there were about 600 children, they were transferred to european countries, and about 600 children were adopted there, even at the end of its tenure, the government of southern vietnam turned to a number of european companies that provided this flight with a claim, that is, you took it out without our consent, they say, we don’t know anything, we don’t know anything, we have already adopted them, we have already found the children, go to the kindergarten, we go sue, that’s it, and it didn’t end with anything, against this background, we are turning to, here... by and large, 48, 47 years ago, probably, the americ

, south vietnam was abandoned, but they continued to supply it, train, but less, less, less, and lessroup of people, yes, that’s right, this group of these people, they are clearly panicking, because that they are being pushed to freeze some world, then it’s all laid out in one story, that’s what zelsky said there about the maidan, that they want to remove him there, then it’s just all this, it’s all a puzzle that adds up a message to russia, that russia will immediately sit down with us at the negotiating table if we give it to her let’s propose, he is somewhat offensive for us, because we will not do that, we were offered, it is now beneficial for us on the contrary, how to improve our negotiating positions, and such statements about rahami, they indicate that he is not inclined to negotiate . vladim viktorich, this looks like a change of strategy, now i’m talking about the statement about rakhamiya, it’s strategy, not tactics, yes , look, if before, some kind of dizziness from success happened in ukraine among western partners, especially after the successful september counter-offe

possible to deal , there may be different scenarios, i can remember again, since we started in south vietnamow, i know who else i’ll remember, this is exactly the same story, saddam hussein for a second, it was completely their guy, dude, everything was forgiven for him, even an erroneous blow to an american ship, even chemical weapons against the kurds, chemical weapons, halabjah, of course, chemical weapons were used in halabjah, there is footage, everything, everything there, everything was forgiven, because he was considered his boyfriend, because he fought there with iran, yes, absolutely right , yes, then, when he himself believed that he was their guy, he invited him, then i told this story , yes, he invited the ambassador of the united states to his place and said, listen, we are reading... that this kuwait is our emirate, this is our an area that has always been part of iraq, and we have this kind of story, we want to kind of bring him home, this very kuwait, what do you think, what are yours there, what will they say, and he says, i’ll come tomorrow and tell you, april , april, apr

the statistics on this few months ago. um obviously the united states was there to protect the south of vietnam for because that was where the democracy supposedly was, but um and against the communist dictatorship north, over two-thirds of the bombs that were dropped were in the south, because they would effectively they were um that old saying, we had to destroy the village to save it, they basically destroyed a country to save it, um and didn't do anything like as much in the north, um so this kind of these kind of um wars, these kind of um uh acts of domination can lead to very um very extreme uh extremely destructive and perverse results uh and those kind of things are going to start to happen now as this conflict um uh uh heat heats up even further particularly if we i think go beyond christmas i think there's a kind of tacit understanding and acceptance that perhaps this is going to wind up sometime in december yeah if it doesn't then all bets are off as to where this goes i know that arab countries don't really want to be involved, but how can they justify that to their populations if w

seen this economic strength and dynamism first a secretary as my trips to india, indonesia, south korea, vietnamnd across the region. recognizing this big picture the biden administration is pursuing an approach to the end of pacific that furthers our country's long history of engagement and distresses to the region importance per hour in the world's future. as president biden laid out in his indo pacific strategy the unitedom states is committed ton end of pacific that is free and open. connected, prosperous, secure and resilient. you have penetrations working to tackle challenges and seize opportunities including securing our supply chains and supporting america's workers. to spur growth with deepening integration and harnessing technological transformation. to build resilience we are partnering across the region to address climate change and strengthen health systems impaired and in response to threats to human rights and international law standing up to economic coercion strengthening democratic governance. for economic times underpin part highlight three priorities economic strategy for thi

vietnam, is 65 percent plus 10 percent of the a t. that's extremely high, but the exports tex to fellows south, east asian countries is 0. heart of darkness, exports to 8 countries, including singapore, where recently opened the 2nd, drew. why the singapore in market is also growing. the pace is slower than vietnam's. that's because singapore imports vast amounts of craft beer. there's no good definition of always, probably a right? so anything that gets you to the market, anybody can live with them. it's probably a that there's no quality spend that or what it means to be probably of which means the consumer here to get a little bit confused about what it means to be probably a despite dynamic related economic challenges persisting microbreweries in southeast asia, are expanding a cross bure sales are now making a dent in vietnam's total beer sales, getting crossed through rece, something to cheat. the reminder of the top is the story we're following for you. bus and diamonds are coming under close scrutiny is the european union considers a 12th set of functions on russia over its war, new crane, along with the bond on the sale of the gy

that's where you got north and south vietnam, the partition of that country. and demilitarized zone. but again, if you don't get the big ideas right, all the rest of that stuff doesn't much matter. andrew if i can ask you from a historian's point, you know, you've you've research commanders, you've researched king's prime ministers and emperors but if we can bring the into the present day, of course the one conflict that your book doesn't cover is a recent conflict in in israel, gaza. from a historians point of view, what lessons would you draw from the way you analyzed all types of these conflicts in your book? what lessons can you take away so immediately, if you can, this conflict? well, you know, david and i discussed that question just the other day because we couldn't see in our book any historical parallel and for the field difficult job that has to face the moment. yes, you can look. at the yom kippur war, which to an extent for a few days at least in that october of 1973, did look as though it might become existential for his world, but otherwise ther

childhood, northern korea, northern vietnam, there is china, the people 's republic of china, a completely separate issue, there are satellites of the united states, such as southhern vietnam and so on, taiwan, chinese. there are these very tigers, and there is a non-aligned movement, there is a very powerful force, led by india, indonesia, let us remember the glorious era of sukarna and so on, and this is something that, of course, does not exist in europe and in general in the atlantic theater this does not exist, that is , the situation here is very confusing, and if we remember, accordingly, all the games of the soviet union with the non-aligned movement, the famous tour, and bulganin in asia in the year fifty-five, this, of course, was such a very specific move and of course, in terms of the impact of the tour with him by the pro-american japanese prime minister kishi in the year fifty-seven-fifty-eight, of course, it cannot be compared, although kishi tried, let’s just say, well, if not to build, then at least to build the non-communist, or even anti-communist regimes of asia into some kind of phalanx. under the leadership of the united states, but still

history, even at the height of the vietnam war, when the fighting marched in every major city, south vietnamrupt autocracy of ukraine against another russia. so, real the reason why zelsky declared the choice illegal is to stop anyone who dares to criticize the rampant corruption in ukraine or the war. those in our government who support him must also believe that when the united states is at war, they too will be justified in overturning our elections. and now i want to show you zelsky, who seems reasonable. this is a video from a cemetery. i wish you health, dear ukrainian-ukrainians, this is a video of bakhmut’s treasure trove, i don’t know, here’s another one, zelensky, please, i wish the health of the ukrainians, as another decade ends, the year of war, our defense, our active actions, it is important to say, and now i have a question, decide for yourself where the real president is, of course, and what quality is real, and what corresponds to the position of president and supreme commander-in-chief, where is the deep fake and where is the real one, decide for yourself, but if someone d

in june 1967 i was serving in the republic of south vietnam when the uss liberty was ambushed and americanlors were slaughtered by our so-called very best friend in the middle east. no one talks about that. in 1982 when they opened up the refugee camps in lebanon, thousands of people, women, children, elderly were slaughtered -- that was a massacre. when south africa -- their biggest allies was israel. no one complained about that. there was a congressman by the name of brian mast and he showed up in any idf uniform and he was not sanction for that. what is going on in this country? host: about the uss liberty attack, just so people know what we are talking about, this is from the office of the historian at the state department about that. u.s. naval technical ship liberty was attacked by israeli aircraft and torpedo boats off of the sinai peninsula on june 8, 1957. the following account of the circumstances. -- israel later apologized for that and said it was a mistake. here is teresa. caller: thanks for having me. i will be voting for president trump, looking at what happened in our coun

walk us through the region in terms of different countries, south korea, australia, vietnam that your working with and some of the initiatives there. gen. flynn: i would remind the audience that this region is defined by the armies. i know when you look at a map you see a lot of blue and it is often referred to by many as a maritime eater, but it is actually a joint theater. i believe that what is happening out there with the size of these armies, 65 percent of the japanese military is its army, 80% of the indian military is the army. they turn to their armies to provide security for their people. i will use the philippine army as an example they have 12 divisions. they have 11 lights divisions and an armored division. they have been focused on an insurgency in the south. they are trying to take their army and the marine corps and special operations forces are part of the philippi army. and what they are trying to do is be innovative and thoughtful about how to we organize, reorient, retrain so they can conduct territorial defense operations. they have recently announced that they are

can you walk us through the region in terms of the different countries, south korea, australia, vietnam, other folks you are working with there. >> i just remind the audience that this region is really defined by the armies. and i know when you look at a map and you see a lot of blue, it is often referred to by many as maritime but it is joint theater. it has joint problems and challenges that has to be solved by the joint force. joint and multinational force. i believe that what is happening out there with the size of these armies, 65% of the japanese military, 70% of the philippine army, 80% of the --. i could go one. the point being they turned to their armies to provide security for their people. and i will use the philippine army as a good example. they have 12 divisions. they have 11 might divisions and they have an armored division. and they largely have focused on insurgency to the south. so they are trying to take their army and marine corps special operations forces are part of the philippine army. what they're trying to do is be innovative, creative and thoughtful about how t

vietnam war. so the a lapse of the south region. so. ringback he's the best of controversial things and also i think he left the office, he engaged quite a lot in consulting consultancy lobbying what that some people question, the sort of motivations fall. so he's on the back. let's talk about one of the 1st points. talked about the rep for small with the p r. c. the foreign ministry and paging uh was making a statement about time today and called him a deal to old friend of the chinese people. talk to us a bit about why this affection focus in drain china so. busy cassandra, i think, was the 1st person to visually seize the opportunity opened up by the strategic conditions at the time the us was looking to get out of vietnam and also to deal with the soviet union. the p. c was looking to deal with its less than relationship with the soviet union. and at the time many people saw the changing configuration, including including kissinger. but here's the deal with the person who makes some sense on the ground to be king, to meet with tryin

troops withdraw from vietnam and then congress blocked all these promises of aid to the south. and then, roland, as the north did in 1975 and achieve unification. and it sounds to many outlandish because, you look at south korea today, all the wealth all these achievements and cultural terms, as well as economic, political realms, north korea, really, such a backward country has such ambitions. it seems absurd, unbelievable. i think, to north korea. it's not only a believe label and a compelling mission. it's a non-negotiable proposition to forever remain the inferior, poorer koreans. while south korea serves as a magnet to your own people, this is an existential threat. ending like east germany, perhaps one day. so i think they have a grand strategy as jarring as that term as apply. north korea may sound. right. well, any other questions this time. hi. thank you so much for this talk. it's fascinating to hear hear your insights. i was wondering if you could speak a little bit to your experience, an expert witness in the auto from bear trial? yes, otto warmbier university, you