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Analyze-- analysts specializing in Chinese leadership say they see no signs of cognitive decline in Xi's public appearances, even though physical signs of his aging are hard to dismiss.

"There is a huge difference between a leader who can't function completely due to a severe stroke and a leader who is physically impaired but mentally can function," said Miksin Pei, a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College who studies Chinese elite politics.

In the first case, he said, the party would have to find a successor quickly.

In the latter piece said the party would have to wait and policy would be unlikely to change much, as during Mao's final years in power before he died at age eighty-two.

This is what I wanna do.

Um, when I was 16, um, I got to do the Berklee in LA, um, camp that they do at, at Claremont McKenna College is where it was.

Oh, cool.

Where you like, you stay in the college for a week.

I met Mike because I cold called him, to be frank.

And I cold called him because a few years ago, Ron Ruggio, who's at Claremont McKenna, and I edited a book on leadership and virtues.

And we in the virtue ethics space, we like to talk about how ancient our philosophy is because Aristotle was around like a couple thousand years ago.

And that's a while ago, but it's still pretty infantile when we think about a lot of the Indigenous and First Peoples' knowledges that have been around for a lot longer than that.

And so did start looking sort of in my own backyard and found Mike through his affiliation with Royal Roads.

And he and Lorelei Higgins Parker contributed a chapter that was absolutely a brilliant addition to that book.

And then Mike joined us at the conference at Claremont McKenna Is that 2024? I

think.

Today we have the distinct privilege of having with us Dr. Nicholas Bukola.

Dr. Bucola is Professor of Government and the Jules L. Whitehill Professor of Humanism and Ethics at Claremont McKenna College.

He's the author of several books, including The Fire is Upon Us, James Baldwin, William F. Buckley, Jr., and The Debate Over Race in America.

He's also written on Frederick Douglass and the political thought of Frederick Douglass.

I didn't visit any colleges before I applied.

Really only applied to Claremont McKenna a little bit on a whim because of, you know, a friend who'd gone there and told me I might be a good fit, and my sister had applied there.

So I, I at least knew the place existed, but I'd never visited.

But now that I know about, like, the richness of the landscape of colleges, I'm like, "Why didn't I, like, head east of the Rockies and, and check out a couple places," right? Uh, I think it would've ...

Bill Pinnell is a principal at Semler Brasi with over a decade of experience advising corporate boards and management teams on the design of effective executive compensation programs.

Cameron Shelton is the McMahon Family Professor of Political Economy and Chair of the Robert Day School of Economics and Finance at Claremont McKenna College.

He's also the co-founder of Suited Inc., an AI-enabled recruiting network.

Thanks so much for being here with us today.