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Good evening I'm John Bachelor this is the John Barrasso show my colleague and friend and co-host Gordon Chang of The Daily Beast is here with me to discuss Asia following the not unprecedented but certainly alarming a long shot of a North Korean missile over the Sea of Japan that we're told 24 hours later was significant in achieving an altitude and a range that point towards improvement of the ability of the North Koreans to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile this one did not have a warhead but another day another worry that's 24 hours ago tonight we're going to start with a conversation about China because China is an integral part of a solution if there is to be one of the rogue state of North Korea Gordon a very good evening to you the missile launch yesterday got everybody's attention again on Asia we're going to start however with a story about Asia that strikes me as far more significant than North Korea's bad behavior after all that we've seen this before they provocations the missiles the threats the talk what is unusual to my right to my reading of these years of following your garden is that the deal may be between the Communist Party and its leadership after Mal was you give us your a b.t.s. And when you get out of line we won't have you executed we'll have you jailed you'll go to the Chinese communist version of Club Fed but you won't be executed there for a puzzle Gordon because I read that a prominent Chinese general. Under home detention and suspect of being corrupt committed suicide is that a break in pattern Gordon Good evening here Good evening John it is a break in pattern because drunk shopping as you pointed out Miles success or whatever the cost of losing political struggles now we've got a leader of China Sea jumping who has reversed that process and we're having people kill themselves now this is reminiscent of an earlier period in the People's Republic in namely that under mounds of dung then the question is whether this is symptomatic or whether this is just sort of a superficial similarity and for that of course it's going to be a lot of digging but this is indeed a question we absolutely have to ask where welcome our colleague Charles Burton of Rock University who comments often on for us on the Chinese Communist Party but this is a twist this is the Chinese Communist Party and it's p l a attachment law is loyal to the Communist Party but suicide Charles a very good evening to you this strikes me as a an unusual act in a country that emphasizes common purpose and working together this general would have had a career in being one of the team is this side significant is it his personality or is it I'm a measure of she and how he's now conducting his business good evening to you Charles good evening well that there have been an increase in the number of suicides of officials along with this corruption campaign and of course if you commit suicide before you're subject to extreme torture under the party's disciplinary process then you will not be revealing the names of people that will subsequently be associated with you and you will not be forced to provide the the hidden riches that you have accumulated for your families so committing suicide is certainly something that was. Degree of loyalty to one's subordinates and family when you see the situation has gone beyond desperate but as Gordon points out after the Cultural Revolution the party changed its policy towards purges and allowed people to go into effect in exile themself himself lived under the military protection in a military region far from Beijing during. The last 30 was purged 3 times but the point is he came back so it wasn't like the Stalin near where people were were shot now we have a situation where a very senior official has committed suicide and this will then cause some degree of unease among the other the military who presumably respected this gentleman and will probably lead to an even greater vigor on the part of the Chinese Communist Party to pursue corruption and to prevent them from committing suicide I think that this suicide. Was the result of a normal purge the Chinese Communist Party have reduced the size of the Central Military Commission from 11 to 74 of those 7 are appointed by Xi Jinping in this gentleman had been responsible for relations with foreign militaries and you know they relations are changing now that China is becoming much more aggressive and so he was due to be purged and they came up with the basis for it that he was corrupt in taking bribes and had a lot of exposure and explain wealth and was connected to shoes tie hole and global c.e.o. And the 2 military who had been earlier purged So I think that his purging was a relatively normal purging his feeling of desperation and feeling the need to end his life is probably indicative that the way that she can pin deals with factions within China is much much harsher than had been the case since the end of the. For revolution in 176 garden Charles we have seen as I mentioned a number of suicides but also we have seen in the era of siege and being a lot of officials really concerned about their future maybe not willing to take their life but they have fled or in many cases they have been resistance in other words they have stayed in their posts but they haven't done anything and largely because they're worried that if they make a decision they take an act they are going to be criticized afterwards and then purged So really and the era of siege and thing we have a slowdown in the central government's decision making process and whether a person taxes life or whether they merely don't make decisions this is a going to be an issue for the Communist Party going forward because governance is indeed at a point where it is not being it is as effective as it could be. Yes I think that there are more and more people who feel that they don't have an active part in the party's program and in decision making and policy making because of the concentration of power around Mr Xi and the people that he's associated with which reduces the feeling of being stakeholders for a large proportion of the existing current leadership and as you say a state of unease that the purging campaign could meet them next because one feels that Mr John Young while as a general he may it's accumulated a lot of personal wealth. Unexplained wealth and may have. Received bribes to to offer military for motions this kind of behavior is not a tall untypical in the People's Liberation Army and so many many other senior officials who are doing the same things as Mr John and was purged for would be right to feel very concerned about their futures gosh darn if I were k.g.b. Spy master I'm thinking to myself if guys are going to be. Very safe I mean we think about America spying on China but Russia's very good at it Good heavens All right Gordon you have a question about North Korea and act Canada Charles you are an expert on the Chinese military attitudes towards North Korea you've pointed out to me that there is a big Canadian meeting on North Korea where is this all going in that country to the north of ours Well this is a meeting which will be co-hosted by Canada the United States and it's a meeting of foreign ministers of all of the nations who are involved in the earlier u.n. . Still on unresolved Korean War plus to Pan and other relevant players will be no participation by North Korea and so it's interesting to me that the United States has decided to hold such an important international conference north. The border but perhaps that's to try and engender more buy in to any action that the United States wants to lead against North Korea and today it was also announced that the Canadian government leadership has decided to build a bunker for senior officials which we didn't have one of way way way way way way what kind of bunker what are we talking about here they tried Dell wants a bunker Well we have to have a bunker under Prime Minister David Baker some years ago in the Cold War a Cuban Missile Crisis when I worked in the Department of National Defense I found out that my immediate superior would be heading to the bunker in case of nuclear war but I would be staying back at the office to take care of things. But this is this is a new development where I think there's some anticipation that we need to expect the possibility that there could be you could have missiles flowing over Canada heading to New States and possibly dropping on our own country so it seems that the mood of the Canadian government and possibly of other governments is that we could be heading to a military conflict over North Korea Gordon I regard this as significant the new Cold War goes to Canada certainly John and I also think that the John Bachelor show should have its own bunker Oh no no no no doubt now you know I stay out and make the call corking No no no no go no bunker for me I know at the end of that science fiction story Charles Charles Burton Brock University Gordon Chang of The Daily Beast a Chinese general commit suicide there's a story coming I'm John Bachelor. I was introduced to this remarkable product towns are near the church they have to decide a thing that's just. 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Pacific region now officially called by the trumpet ministration the United States is the leader in the quad but Shapin is participating along with India paying a great deal of attention to India so what is the mission of the quad and one of its prospects in your measure at this date Good evening. Pretty dim view and thanks for having me on I think this is a very timely and a. Topic and in some ways is helping to reshape the landscape the security landscape of the Indo-Pacific. The quad actually has its origins dating back almost exactly a decade ago when India joined with Japan the United States Australia and held the 1st meeting of quadrilateral dialogue on the sidelines of an assay on the summit in 2007. And most observers agreed that the 4 countries were looking to collaborate more in light of shared concerns about China's rise. Few months after this initial dialogue they held an unprecedented multilateral military exercise joined by Singapore in the Indian Ocean a special edition of the Malabar exercises 3 aircraft carriers 2 u.s. One Indian participating and it was for India quite a leap toward the u.s. And its security partners but unfortunately within months o