Welcome dear friends back to America first, but it's one on one

It is our opportunity to go a little bit deeper to get to know our special guests our regular contributors people who we have great respect for and who

deserve to be better known by millions of people across the nation and across the world

Somebody who I relied upon for years who I got to know through my good friend John bachelor and his radio show is

Is as far as I'm concerned?

Synologist number one. He is the China expert I refer to when I want to understand what is going on in Asia

His name is Gordon Trang. You can follow him at Gordon G. Chang. Gordon. Welcome back to this special one on one

Thank you so much, sir

So I want to talk I want to I want to cross the waterfront all the key issues

Not just what's happened in the last six months not just what's happened since a

China has a new self-annoying to the emperor

But I want to talk about the broader geopolitical aspects you have a very robust Twitter account

You have been very outspoken in terms of the threat of communism writ large to Weston civilization

but first for those who

Haven't heard of you before who are tuning in for the first time to this discussion or listening to it on a video platform

Tell us a little bit of who Gordon Trang is and how you got the very robust beliefs that you have today

Well, Seb I'm a writer and I wrote a book that come and collapse in China in

2001 in which I predicted the Communist Party would fail in ten years. So I was wrong about that

The reason why I wrote that book was because Lydia and I were living in China

We moved there August 1996 because I went there to work for my primary client city bank

We were doing all sorts of deals and it was a very optimistic time

And I can remember when we moved to Shanghai

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