First of all why did you decide to write the book quick. This is my eighth book and in 2000 and wrote a book called the china threat that was called the china threat theory it was amazing that it predicted the emergence of a major threat posed by communist china ever since i wrote the book i tried to do another china book in every publisher that i approached we wont write another single topic. Why was that quick. I dont know with their concerns if it was cell then i dug in my heels to say its time to do it. Another threat from china as it is becoming greater back when the china threat was published. Your book is very timely. Let me ask you about the title. Deceiving the sky. Talk about the second half is very clear and understandable but where does deceiving the sky quick. They are steeped in ancient strategy and many people know of the famous strategist who comes from the warring states air. Theres also a book called the 36 strategies whose author is not quite clear but a compendium o
A lot of ground. To seek in the inside up next chinas strive for global supremacy. So, first of all why did you decide to make the book . This is my eighth book. And, in 2000 i bought a book called the china threat which was a play on what bashan calls the china threat. It was amazing and that they really predicted the emergence of a major threat posed by communist china. Ever since they broke the apple i tried to do another china book and, every publisher i approached said we will not write a single topic china book. You can add chapters in china but we wont have a single topic. Is that . I really dont know. It was their interest or their concerns about whether they would sell finding, a detriment bylsma said, its time to do another book on the threat from china as sitting becoming greater then it was way back when the china threat was published in 2000. Your book is very timely. But, let me ask you about this title. It is deceiving the sky, and then you go on inside communist chinas
Relationship, an issue that is getting a lot of attention these days. Senator warner has been at the forefront of china and has been a leader on the conversation related to Foreign Policy and National Security issues, both on china and his years of service in the senate. For those of you joining us for the very first time, u. S. I. P. Was founded by congress as a nonpartisan National Institute dedicated to working with partners around the world to prevent and resolve violent conflict. One of the things we do here in our headquarters in washington is to provide a space for conversation about the most critical Foreign Policy issues of the day, and i think the u. S. China relationship certainly qualifies. That is exactly what brings us together. We have seen over the past decade how china has shifted many of its policies, and become far more active in the international stage, particularly, it has invested heavily in countries and laid a much more active role regionally. We have seen this
Next, a discussion on u. S. China relations with virginia senator washing a mark warner vice chair of the Intelligence Committee from the u. S. Institute of peace this is an hour and ten minutes. Good afternoon, everybody im Nancy Lindberg im the president petition u. S. Institute of peace. And delighted to welcome everybody here for a very timely conversation with senator mark warner from virginia. About the u. S. China relationship, an issue getting a lot of attention these days. Senator warner has been at the forefront of china. And has been a leader on the conversation related to Foreign Policy and National Security issues both on china and through his years of service in the senate. For those of you who are joining us for the first time, u. S. Ip was founded by congress as a nonpartisan national institute, dedicated to working with partners around the world to prevent and resolve violent conflict. And one of the things we do here in our headquarters in washington is to provide a s
We need stronger on that issues. The cspan Battle Ground states tour. And were live this morning as the Washington Post hosts the Cyber Security summit with remarks from former Homeland Security certificate Michael Chertoff and National Intelligence, james clapper. Live on cspan2. One year ago this morning journalists in Washington Post contributing columnist Jamal Khashoggi was brutally murdered in istanbul. The post has been paying tribute to jamal throughout this week and just moments ago post publisher fred ryan and the posts owner jeff baseos spoke at a memorial for him in istanbul just steps from where jamal was killed. Jamals courage and his work will not be forgotten. For me, jamal inevitably brings to mind the importance of a free press. But more broadly, our ability to access information and communicate openly is the life blood of our democratic society. So much of our communication is done digitally over texts or emails, on social media platforms. Our digital lives are encod