This is CBS, I Am the World, I'm John Batsworth, Isaac Stonefish.

The new book is America's Second, how America's elites are making China stronger.

We've introduced the most important player in American culture and political life since

1971, Henry Kissinger.

He was there in July of 1971 to talk to Joe.

He's with us today, and God bless him.

However, in those intervening years until 1998, Tiananmen was a huge block, but I learned

from Isaac's book that the Bush administration and then the Clinton administration, two sides

of Tiananmen's catastrophe, were also agreeable to the Chinese Communist Party.

Let's begin with George H.W. Bush, what was his part in this romance between Beijing

and Washington?

Bush was an early representative to China before we had official relations.

He spent about a year there in the mid-70s and developed a relationship with Deng Xiaoping

who he seemed to admire quite greatly.

Bush played two roles in the US-China relationship that Barry mentioned in here.

Ben is how he steered the country when he was in office, which I think could have been

sterner to Beijing, but broadly speaking was quite reasonable.

But then following the path that Kissinger trell plays, after Bush left office, he became

a consultant, and some of his clients were US companies looking to do business in China,

and Beijing enjoyed the propaganda value of that of being able to say, look, Elder

Bush is a friend of China and be able to contrast the way that he spoke about China with

his son, George W. Bush, who is far more critical of Beijing, and it was a way to point out

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