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And we're very pleased to welcome Charles Burton of the McDonnell Loria Institute writing most recently

at the Dorchester Review a comprehensive summary of the history of China since the 19th century built around what is it that the Chinese

Communist Party saw early days in the second and third decade of the 20th century that it is used to rise to power and

maintain power and now project power.

Charles, a very good day to you. Thank you for this essay but I want to focus on one

immediate story right now because we're on the eve of Apeck and we're told

she Jin Ping will attend and we're told there will be a conversation with Joe Biden and we're told that

Beijing is looking for accommodation hence the plight words in the visit of the

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese after pummeling Australia for several years having to do with the

resentment China felt because Australia wanted to know about the origins of COVID,

but that was then, this is now.

What is it that she-jin-ping means when he talks about Chinese ethnicity.

What does that have to do with the predation

that China visits on its neighborhood and on the world?

Good evening to you. Good evening.

Well, I think that this idea of Chinese ethnicity is a relatively newly invented concept

because you know the people that we identify as Chinese are of Han ethnicity

the identification of the word Chinese with an ethnic group and with a

country is is confusing.

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