This week on Beer:30 Live!, still weather the summer vacation schedule, Pete and Jamie show up to have a fantastic talk with university instructor and Frenchman, Alain Gracianette. Alain is working on his doctoral research on China's growing prominence in the global arena, and brings us up to speed on all the reasons we should be studying Chinese. All that, plus Jamie's new -- and ironic -- flipflops this week on the show!