Hong Kong Protest, US China Trade War & China’s Inevitable “Disintegration”—Dr. Arthur Waldron

Why is Hong Kong’s special status most likely permanently over, in the eyes of preeminent China scholar Arthur Waldron? What key mistakes have US leaders, such as Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, made in regards to China over the past five decades? Why does Waldron believe the Chinese communist regime is entering a phase of disintegration? And how does the situation parallel that of the Soviet Union? This is American Thought Leaders 🇺🇸, and I’m Jan Jekielek. Today we sit down with historian and University of Pennsylvania professor Arthur Waldron. He was a founding member of the Congressional US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, and is a board member of the Jamestown Foundation.