Jared Kushner

One of the things, I don't know if it's from this book or a different book that I read that spoke about how in the late 1700s, basically the emperor of China was offered some of the industrial capability from England, which was basically now becoming an industrial empire.

the Industrial Revolution.

And basically, no, we're fine.

We're the great Chinese empire.

We don't need any of these things.

We're better than that.

And by rejecting that, the rest of the world got stronger.

China remained weaker.

Then you had the opium wars.

The Chinese had big opium problems through all the trade back and forth.

And then China from about 1840 to 1940, at 100 years, where they really, after all these treaties...

We're really a second-class country.

And so then you have the People's Revolution that comes in, and he talks about how China, very strategically, as a very, very poor country, would fight their way back and build brick by brick.

And he proffers in the book that Nixon didn't go to China and open China.

It was China that actually went to Nixon and was able to use Nixon in order to open up

And then they talk about how under Carter, they were able to get the US to contribute to a lot of their, they were able to kind of start borrowing the US know-how from our university systems, from our medical, from our science, from our research.

And the whole notion that was the conventional thinking of American leaders was that

The more we helped China advance, the more they would become a free market economy, and it was a great market.

The only difference was that they weren't allowing us access.

They were making our companies basically give them all of their technical knowledge.