Welcome to the Mona Charin Show. So glad you could join us today. I'm delighted to welcome

Sadan Dume, who is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Wall Street Journal columnist,

and a specialist on Asia. This is a topic that hasn't gotten much attention lately,

and so I'm hoping we can get some enlightenment on what is happening in that critical part of the world.

But I'd like to begin with Sadnan's own personal story.

So can you tell us where you were born,

what your influences were growing up?

I was born in New Delhi, India,

and I moved around a little bit when I was young

because my father was an Indian diplomat.

So I was in Washington, D.C. for three years. I was in kindergarten here.

Then I went back to India. I spent some time in Indonesia.

But most of my, you know, most of my early life was in India.

And then I came to the US in the mid-1990s to go to grad school.

I went to Columbia Journalism School.

After that, I went to Princeton and I studied public policy there at what used to be called

the Woodrow Wilson School.

And then I went back to Asia, worked as a foreign correspondent for a few years, wrote a book about the rise of radical Islam in Indonesia, and then found my way back.

And I've been back in the U.S. since 2003, and I've been in Washington since 2008.

Excellent. Thank you.

So one of the things you've written about over the course of many years that I took note of was you did a piece, I think it was in 2015, about why Indian immigrants do so well in the United States and what that says about their country of origin.

So I don't know if you remember this piece, but you've written so many, of course.

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