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| Everyone is talking about the “new Cold War” with China these days, but are we even done processing the old Cold War? Join Jesse as he chats with Jeffrey Lilley, the writer of China Hands, a book he co-authored with his father, the ultimate Cold Warrior, James R. Lilley, a CIA agent and US ambassador to China and then Taiwan. The senior Lilley had a front row seat to the | rise of communism in Asia, having been born and raised in prewar China. The younger Lilley witnessed the fall of the Soviet Union and went on to live in Kyrgyzstan. Out of that experience came his second book, Have the Mountains Fallen, an account of the terrible toll of the Cold War on the Kyrgyz peoples |