This is the Tom Hartman program.

Greetings my friends, Patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice,

believers in peace, freedom, and the American way.

Tom Hartman here with you a lot in the news.

Hurricane, Hurricane Aram is still rolling along in the direction of Florida some very big

concerns there.

President Modi in India getting a little us some very big concerns there.

President Modi in India getting a little troublesome.

Interesting stuff in the Financial Times today

about the state of our economy.

We're going to talk about Representative Rogers and how he's working to destroy satellites that tell us weather information.

But in the midst of all this, Richard McGregor is with us.

He's a journalist and former Beijing Bureau Chief with the

financial times he's the author of the new book Asia's reckoning

China Japan and the fate of US power in the Pacific century

uh... you can uh... let's see uh... you can uh...

let's see uh... you can tweet him at mister gary g o r richard

and uh... rich of a very ger welcome to the program

thanks for having me on Thanks for joining us.

So your book, China, Japan, and the fate of US power in the Pacific century.

Um, some fascinating stuff here what

you know you talk in particular about the history wars one of the history wars

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