Simon Elegant

And that's the one place they're vulnerable.

You can have all the maglev trains and the highways and all the high speed trains that you want.

But if you don't get jobs for the kids, you're going to be in trouble.

And what do you hope the book does to them?

Well, may I say in parenthesis or just firstly, the book is not a kind of polemic on the side of one side or the other.

That's the reason I picked a policeman.

I think policemen do tough jobs and often do them pretty well.

And it's easy to get them to be vilified.

And what happened in Hong Kong was it became tribal and the police began to hate the protesters and vice versa.

So the one person...

You know, that's a tough one.

I'm not sure there's anybody who would read it, even if I gave it to them as part of the setup that they have to read it to, because I think a lot of the people I might want to give it to would say, would throw it away.

But, you know, maybe the chief executive, the chief executive, the current chief executive of Hong Kong is a former head of the police force.

Maybe it'd be nice to get it in his hands to say that people think about these things and

People, you know, they're not cockroaches as the police are calling them during a protest and that there are many sides to a story and this is the other side.

Well, I think that's the message.

I'd really hope you're right.

I know that there have been problems with some of the performance, especially, obviously, all the way from Venezuela to Iran, especially the anti-aircraft missiles and stuff like that.

Maybe it will.

I mean, as you know, as Mike Tyson says, everybody's got a plan until he gets punched in the nose.