I recently visited the capital of Indonesia, Jakarta, where I was invited to deliver a series of lectures to the top twenty leaders of the largest Islamic organization in the world — the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) (literally, “the awakening of the scholarly interpreters of Islamic doctrine and law”).
While the first part of my professional life addressed the strategic and ideological challenge of Soviet communism on which I worked in the Reagan National Security Council. Today, I am absorbed by the similar threat emanating from the Chinese Communist Party. So why have I have turned my attention to far-away Indonesia, of all places?
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