Hello and welcome to the Dragon Rises, Tiger's Paw, a new podcast from the Lindberg Institute on Pacific and Semitic Affairs, along with NPR, Virginia, and WNYC, Chicago.

Hello, my name is Brace Belden. I'm a senior China analyst at the Lindberg Institute of Diplomacy and a Hunter-Biden

Fellow at the Holy Cross High School. And I'm Liz Franzak, director of Chinese Voices at the

Rich Little Institute of Impressions and Jackie Chan Scholar at Moviephone University.

We're of course joined by our illustrious producer, Young Joe M. Ski, who runs a mysterious import

export shop where I once purchased a Gremlin.

So glad to be here today. The 20th century was widely known to be the American century,

due to the fact that the USA wasn't in Europe when there were two big wars there. But is that century over?

Many experts point to the 20th century ending some 23 years ago, which, some experts think,

might mean the end of America too.

It's well known that every country gets one century and the recent chronological changes

in time have many in Washington worried.

Over in China, Premier Xi Jinping has also noticed that the century has changed to a new one.

Is he wondering, like our president here, if this could be the Chinese century?

There are lots of Chinese people.

True.

And lots of years in every century. Every year means more belts, more roads, and more little islands in the South China Sea.

We're giving you an inside look at Red China, a first-class ticket on the slow train to the inside of the Chinese Kremlin, also known as Peking.

A look into the mysterious, inscrutable world

of Xi Jinping and the

Mandarin court of the Red

Emperor. Welcome

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