So I got a call, I don't know, six weeks ago, from a friend of mine at Harvard.

And he said, you're going to China? And I said, yeah, how do you know?

And he said, because the Chinese government just called me. Now, why would they do that? Because Beijing

puts a lot of people in the Kennedy School at Harvard, where I received a master's degree.

And they do a lot of business, China, with Harvard.

Very prestigious for a Chinese government official to attend Harvard University.

So they keep an eye on things, and they knew that I was an alumni. Now,

how did they know I was going to China? Because I made a reservation at the Four Seasons Hotel

across an American embassy and everybody who's from America that goes in there, the Chinese government

knows within two hours. Isn't that interesting?

China is the most intense surveillance state this world has ever seen by far.

And I document that in my column.

And again, I hope you read it.

So anyway, the offer was we would like Mr. O'Reilly to come to Beijing to do a seminar,

a question and answer with some Chinese government officials who are very worried about the second

Trump administration.

So I said, okay, because that's my job, right?

My job is to look out for you by being a journalist and assembling facts,

and also to look out for my country.

So I'm going in, and I did.

It worked out great. The Chinese are very, very respectful to me,

and the rules were simple. Everything was off the record in the sense that no quotations and no names mentioned except mine, which is all right with me. They videotaped the entire,

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