This is CBS I Am The World. I'm John Batchett with my friend Gordon Chang. We're very

pleased to be joined by Steve Yates, Chair of the America First Policy Institute's China

Policy Initiative. Steve, a photograph appearing all around the world, but especially in

the Washington Post and foreign affairs, shows Henry Kissinger, God bless him at more than

100 years old, sitting in a chair on a stage. And the other correspondent is Xi Jinping,

the president for life. We believe the General Secretary for Life, we believe the Chinese

Communist Party. I'm struck about the 30 years difference in their age. Mr. Xi Jinping,

in 1969, when Henry Kissinger was the newly named National Security Advisor for Richard

Nixon as they stepped into the White House, we have reason to believe that Xi Jinping was

living in a cave house somewhere in rural China, having been defamed and announced by

the Red Guard, driven from his home for many years, struggling as all those young people

did to survive Mao's vicious campaign called the Cultural Revolution.

Nowhere in that photograph is the irony projected, but I can guess that of the one billion

plus people in China, several hundred million, no exactly what the story is and how discordant

this photograph is. I believe that Henry Kissinger does as well. What do you see in this

photograph, Steve? Xi Jinping with his happy smile.

Well, there are a couple of things going on. I think simultaneously for sure that memory

that you have recounted a very important one that is immediately identified with by many,

many Chinese people is that he was in many ways born out of one of the most extreme disasters

that were man-made inside the People's Republic of China, leaving the deepest of impressions

upon him that political survival is the most important thing in his existence. Politics

put him where he was then, and if anything defines the Xi Jinping rise in experience, it

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