Very good interview. What I found rather amusing though is through out the interview Dr. Waldron makes the point that time & time again people were mistaken about how China would not change as they perceived, in their delusions, that China would change. Then he ends it all saying he hopes China will change themselves. Almost as if he too has delusions himself. 8>)
[Then he ends it all saying he hopes China will change themselves.]
The unstated theme, for a guy like him who knows everything there is to know about Chinese history, is that he hopes that change will be in a direction that is advantageous for US interests. Change is endemic to all civilizations and China is no exception, having gone through thousands of years of tumultuous changes. In the realm of change, the 20th century pales compared to the 19th, during which China may have lost as much as 1/4 of its population in the course of multiple large scale revolts.