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Engine that might well drive the whole world. >> you like chinese food? >> very much, yes. >> okay. what do you want? >> of course. some good dumplings. >> professor xiao lin is an economist and the current dean of the college of economics and management at shanghai jiao tong university. like so many people you meet here, he's chinese but was educated in american universities and has taught at yale, duke and arizona state. >> so you forgive me, economics are not my area of expertise. i wallow in ignorance. but china looks different every time i come. it's changing so, so, so quickly. how did t...

>> i will take you guys to somewhere -- i will take you somewhere better. >> so are you a foodie? >> yeah. i eat a lot. >> were you born here? you're from shanghai? >> yeah. i was born and raised in shanghai. >> at least in modern times, it's hard to imagine that any place has changed as profoundly and is changing as quickly as it is changing here. >> we really feel proud. we really feel proud. our qualities of life is improving really, really fast. >> in a poll, 85% of chinese who were asked the question, do you feel that your life will be better next year, 85% said yes. it will be better nex...

There are many factors but they are clear strategic moves by the administration that led to the situation we're in right now. number one is to create the east asian coalition. south korea, japan. in my view, the most important, deploying the task forces. when the north koreans saw the task forces. we brought all of our task forces, the south koreans made a calculation. they can't overcome that. they went to the chinese. they asked the chinese thinking china was still in the '50s. they want to make money. they are global. they didn't want to engage with the north koreans against the south korea...