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When this episode of Newt's World, I recently wrote a cover story for Newsweek about China.

Entitled, what I and everyone else got wrong about China and why we need to fix it now.

I wrote the article because I'm in the process of writing a book about China and I'm deep into the research and writing phase.

As I've been researching the past and the present, I realized how remarkably I got China wrong.

Like many Western scholars and policymakers, I bought into this idea that open global markets and information sharing

would bring China out of its communist, totalitarian past into some kind of democratic or at least open future.

I don't think I could have gotten it more wrong.

China has always had its own agenda and that was, in very much still is, China first,

China at the center of the world, China above all of their interests.

What I've learned is how concerted they are in their efforts to undermine the United States and other democratic Western countries

with a very general direction for global domination both technologically and economically.

And in that context, I think we can better understand the terrible where we are facing now.

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