Today, the covid and convention, but this is a big deal. Im outside in port arthur, texas. That is the biggest u. S. Oil refinery. That is the motiva refinery. It is shut down, flaring some gas. Just a skelton crew. They cant shut it completely down. That is shut. Oil and gas throughout this region shut. But more importantly the people. Take a look at the latest pictures of this morning people getting, the last plane out of saigon almost. The last few buses out of the port arthur dead center in the cone. Were dead set the eye of the storm could come ashore. If it is a cat4 storm that comes ashore, and youre in the wall, you will get quite a ride. You point out unsurvivable water in terms of storm surge. We talked to some folks that stayed in other hurricanes but after their experience, this time they say, im out of here. Trying to stay, when they said it would be category, would end up being a category 4, the possibility we would be in the eye, that is kind of scary. With harvey, we we
Rivalry between countries in the Indo Pacific Region of the world. Enjoy booktv on cspan2. Good evening everybody and welcome to politics and prose and to tmt life, our new Live Streaming service. Im one of the coowners of politics and prose along with my husband brad graham and behalf of our entire staff we welcome you to tonights event which we all have been so excited about and i am sure all of you are too. Let me just say a few housekeeping things at the beginning. First of all, you will see at the bottom of your screen up purchase button. We really hope you will purchase the book tonight from our website. You can get there by clicking on that button and we have are very excited that these books have signed book places in them so if you order from our website you will get a signed copy of the book. I also probably dont need to tell you this but you can only probably know this but like all Retail Businesses are really doing our best to stay above water and keeping able to bring thes
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All to be with you to celebrate this tremendous new book. The book is asia new geopolitic geopolitics. Book isk at an important time about the reshaping that is going on across the indo pacific reason. Its also the author of another great book right behind me talks about the end of the age century. Misha is why the most prolific i from the region just do it i did set up a google alert for what ever her essays are published. You will get it right away. Also hopes of a wonderful podcast that he does with john you on the pacific century. And of course the Asian Pacific reason as we cso many developments ongoing whether its from north korea or the latest aggressive actions of the Chinese Communist party. We could not have a more timely discussion about this vitally important region. And then joining us to facilitate this discussion as a brilliant scholar in her own right doctor nadia shadow is a senior fellow at the hudson institute. And as Deputy National security adviser or strategy in t
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