Going back many, many years and having lived there as the Time Magazine correspondent and now i almost go every year but my publisher actually i finish my previous book and he gastight take a year and write about it. I started to look through years and i thought about 1938 as an interesting year is in china, 1944, the year that Joseph Stilwell was kicked out of china and barbara took care of that topic forever. So i started to look at 1945 through the end of world war ii and a few months after world war ii. A and i realized to thing is. One, it was a good topic, and whenever watershed moment as well as chinese history but i like to think of this book as more American History than chinese history. And number two, the was a certain prevailing conventional wisdom about what happened at that time. I thought i would write a book that would substantiate that conventional wisdom that i would just write it in a very readable way to bring this incredible cast of characters to life but i wouldnt
Only one. For a while i didnt think i was going to make it. Thank you all for coming. And again thank you to politics and prose for having me. One of kind of a standard tropes of publishing the book is that you have to answer the question why did you write about this topic in the first place. And you are supposed to a thoughtful answer about how youve had a lifelong interest in this topic and youve always dreamed about exploring it more deeply. In fact, this topic was supposed to be by my publisher. I have had a lifelong interest in china, almost a lifelong interest, having studied it studied chinese going back many many years and having lived there for a few years as the Time Magazine correspondent their, and traveled to there. Even today i go almost every year. But it was my publisher actually. I finished my previous book and he asked me to pick a year and write a book about in china. And so started looking through years, and i thought about 1938. Thats a very interesting year in chi
Massive demographic changes have been hoisted upon the American People. And theyre changes that none of us ever voted for, and most of us dont like. From virginia to california, we see stark examples of how radically in some ways the country has changed. Now, much of this is related to both illegal and in some cases Legal Immigration that, of course, progressives love. And since this is the last speech that i will give as president , i think its fitting to leave one final thought. An observation about a country which i love. It was stated best in a letter i received not long ago. A man wrote me and said, you can go to live in france, but you cannot become a frenchman. You can go to live in germany or turkey or japan, but you cannot become a german, a turk or japanese. But anyone from any corner of the earth can come to live in
you know, guy vinson, a strong conservative voice, wrote this on twitter overnight. As conservatives we should not fear or bemoan demographically shifting electo
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