As a long time foreign correspondent, I've worked in lots of places, but nowhere is important

to the world as China. I'm Jane Perlaz, former Beijing Bureau Chief for the New York Times.

Join me on my new podcast, Face Off, US versus China,

where I'll take you behind the scenes in the tumultuous US-China relationship.

Find face-off wherever you get your podcasts.

This is Michael Medved, Otto von Bismarck, the Chancellor of Germany, once said that God offers special protection

to drunkards, lost dogs, children, and the United States of America.

We'll explore that special protection

and what it means in the American miracle.

Subscribe to the American Miracle on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, or wherever you get your podcasts. What are we talking about today?

I don't. What are we talking about today?

I don't know. I think we're going to talk about random stuff and

let's do a bullshit sash. I like that.

Random random stuff.

Did you listen to my podcast?

I haven't yet now. The one that you just put out today?

Yeah. The one that I couldn't make yesterday? Yeah I just did an ISIS thing.

Well not really an ISIS thing. I kind of just went and freestyled on

What's going wrong right now in Syria and Iraq

Vice just did one yesterday on on the pretty much the same topic about the

YPG the Peshmerga guys and it was pretty good actually they what I really

love about Vice is that they'll send people into the fucking war zone, you know?

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