the influence of China among billions of
people is enormous and we in the United
States have tended to look at these
places as baggage so we don't take them
seriously the Chinese take them
seriously and the longest the the
biggest challenge to American influence
in the world long term is China's
ability to integrate billions of
marginalized people into the world
economy
you're talking about people going from
making $2 a day which is misery and
degradation to 10 or15 a day which is
the beginning of
dignity and that is something we've
really dropped the ball on we we're
doing almost nothing in that area we've
ignored it I've I've written any number
of Articles complaining about this uh I
went to Mike Gallagher and said please
you know let's offer alternative to what
the Chinese are doing but so far I
haven't seen haven't seen much response
and that worries
me
