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00:00 So in a way, foreign businessmen and foreign embassies
00:04 work hand in hand to destabilize your government
00:08 if you don't do their bidding.
00:10 What we should be coming up with is
00:16 how to strengthen the protection around our government.
00:24 Of course, it means we must assess
00:27 that our governments are working in our interests.
00:32 They are not the--
00:35 we've dropped something into your account
00:39 for you to enjoy your holidays, a kind of senators.
00:46 They are not going to be the type who
00:48 want to line their pockets rather than
00:52 work in your interest.
00:54 People will be more inclined to show loyalty to good governance.
01:05 And this is where, again, we have--
01:10 we've shied away from a frontal discussion of whether democracy
01:16 works for development.
01:20 If the Europeans could have overthrown
01:26 the Russian or the Chinese government,
01:31 when they embarked on their route to development,
01:34 believe me, they would have.
01:38 And under Yeltsin, when Russia was introduced to democracy
01:48 after the collapse of the Soviet Union, you saw what happened.
01:55 The mafia, the economic businessmen,
01:59 not only stole the commonwealth, but they were now
02:04 open to themselves to being used by foreign intelligence
02:10 agencies to destabilize Russia until Putin came in and said,
02:16 I'm having none of that.
02:19 That's when Putin became a bad boy.
02:23 I'm having none of that.
02:25 Nobody has interrogated the behavior of the private sector
02:31 under Yeltsin when they thought that they
02:35 were practicing democracy.
02:37 They can't try it in China, because China
02:43 is a one-party government.
02:45 And there are no pockets for you to exploit in order
02:51 to overthrow the government of China.
02:55 But I say that that's a debate for another day.