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how is this tom sawyer strategy playing out? >> i tell the story in the book about secretary in 1979 who explained that chinese strategy was to surpass the soviet union and then america would be next. nobody believed that at the time. china had 10% of our gdp. nobody believed they had a prayer of pulling it off. looking back, the documents the viets gave us of secret beaches chairman mao had made to his colleagues, the chinese destiny was to cacatch up to and surpass america. nobody bieved thosose documents. now we see from955 the chinese had this goaoal. they are very patient. this is not a short-term thing. >> hence the 100 year marathon. you won a service award for uncovering this in your long career at the cia and elsewhere. >> someone claims i wothe cia performance award. this book had to go through security clearance at the cia and they removed references like that. >> one of your reasons for doing this book is to foster debate. what strategy es the u.s. need to execute to sort -- thwart china surpassing us? >> this should

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so tom sawyer gets his friends to paint the fence for him and it's all part of the same idea. use the other countries for sore technology to win the 100 year marathon. and i try to show him here help some of the defectors told us this is what china has been doing. >> an excerpt from the book the u.s. doesn't see china the way that it sees us. in an ancient proverb that says across the sea in full view or in more practical terms, hide in plain sight. that is one of the 36 from ancient chinese folklore. all of these are designed to defeat by using the opponents against him without knowing he was in a context. explain. >> part of the reason the title for the book the 100 year marathon was china's secret strategy. this wasn't an openly declared strategy. in fact i use a line called the fight club at the first rule of fight club is you don't talk about the fight club. so china doesn't openly describe this strategy. they are very sensitive about this being exposed. and it goes back to a secret code that the chair himself told other leaders in 1955 and repeated a couple more times so

and one of tom sawyer's immortal tricks as close to chinese strategy. he has to whitewash a fence. he's been fun ash fork. but he tricks his friends into painting the fence for him. how does he do that? he appeals to them. only the best person can paint this fence. you can't have the brush and mail it to learn chinese nonaction to control through nonaction. part of another concept we could all say you sure are smart. flux or situation are doing things earlier than the other guy can do them. so tom sawyer getting his friends to paint the fence for him is all part of the same idea. he's the other countries for search technology to win the 100 year marathon. i try to show one year of the defectors told us this is what china is doing. >> an extract from the book are we americans don't see china the way it sees us. a condition for decades. nature proverb that says in full view for a more practical terms in plain sight. as one of the 36 strategies and essays from ancient chinese folklore. all of these are designed to defeat the mobile component by using the o

and one of tom sawyer's immortal tricks is very close to chinese strategy. he has to whitewash a fence he's being punished for it. it's very bad and scary hot but he scary scary hot but he tricks his friends and depending the fence for him. how does he do that quickly appeal to them. only the best person can take this fence. you can't have the brush. they all do what in chinese is called non-action to control the non-action. as part of another concept that we can all say today sure, like you sure are smart. sure is a flux for situation doing things earlier than the other guy can do them so tom sawyer getting his friends to paint the fence for him is all part of the same idea. you should other countries for support technology to win the 100 year marathon and i tried to show in here how some of the defectors told us this is what china has been doing. >> an extract from a book, the americans still don't see china the way it sees us a condition that has persisted for decades. the answer lies in ancient -- that says cross the sea in full view or in more practical

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mark twain has a great novel called the inventors of tom sawyer and one of his tricks is very close to chinese strategy. yes to whitewash the fence, but he tricks his friends into painting the fence for him. so how does he do that? and oh, only the best person can paint this fence. so they did what in chinese means control through nonaction. part of another concept we can say sure you are smart it is flux or situational and they are getting people to paint the fence for them just like tom sawyer. and so i tried to show in "the hundred-year marathon" how some of the defectors told us that this is what china has been doing. >> and extract from the book. americans don't see china the way that they see us. balancing this all within most practical terms hiding in plain sight. this is an essay from ancient chinese folklore designed to use the opponents own strength against him without him knowing that he's in the contest. >> the reason the title of the book "the hundred-year marathon" this is not an openly declared strategy. in fact, i use a line from the american movie called the fight club

. >> i don't know nothing about tom sawyer. >> then don't buzz in. >> i'd like to solve the puzzle. > isn't "wheel of fortune. >> who is andre the giant. >> is that an answer to a question? >> no, i'm just wondering who is andre the giant. >> what a big night for comedy here at 30 rock. as u i was coming in this morning, people were still sort of stumbling out. they must have had a very big party here long after the show ended. snl brought together of course young and old for its 40th anniversary special last night. and it was a night of laughs, music and reunions a long time in the making. jerry seinfeld held a question and answer session and ear here's what happened. >> next yes, yes, tina. >> no. it's sara. >> sarah palin. >> sorry. of course, governor palin welcome. >> i'm just curious, how much do you think loren michaels would pay me if i were to run in 2016? >> run for president? i don't think there's a number too big rngts just high thet cli, what if i were to choose donald trump as my running mate. >> you're teasing us. that's not nice. >> that does it for this morning editio

released 30 years or maybe longer has been what i said about tom sawyer and his friends painting thefence. to solve those problems we need help from the world outside. china needs peaceful security environment in which to flourish domestically and it's a little bit of a trip weston it's not foreign-policy, that is a junior topic in china compared to domestic issues, but for domestic issues this can only be solved with what two exports in the outside world. more foreign direct investments, 20 times more foreign direct investment from us than india, is that a natural thing? know, the chinese leaders have worked very hard to get american high-tech investment in china, that is one of their top goals for 30 years. so is that a foreign-policy idea or is it the master policy? well, we need to get the americans to whitewash and paint this. there is a whole series of things that the chinese leaders stayed in their speeches for what they have to get from the outside world and in some sense the outside world owes him because of what chris mentioned the century of bad treatment and humiliation.

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