And before becoming involved in history interpretation, is my new book, grandmother would remind me as a child, slaverys tell you the story of the people. My interest is telling the story of the people. Clearly, people of african ancestry arrive in the americas and the british north america, or the west indies and south american, as we arrived under the most perilous and difficult circumstances if human slavery. On the other hand, we persevered. The fact that so many of us of African Heritage exist in newport, boston, new york, or betos, or anywhere in the western hemisphere is a testament to her perseverance. Settled in 16 39 newport, rhode island would grow to become one of the most active ports and also became the most active slave port. Between 17 or five in 1805, newport merchants within road island were responsible for nearly 1000 slave from rhode island to the south african coast to the west indies and back to rhode island. They transported about 100,000 africans back to the new
I think there is another reason to look back at potsdam, as we are reentering a world of Great Power Competition and reentering a world where geopolitics seems to have come back to the fore of International Relations thinking. So it is well worth us coming back to this subject. I am glad to have a chance to talk to you about it. I wish it was in person in kansas city. I wish that we were able to do this facetoface, but we will do the very best that we can. The key thing here that i want to return to throughout this presentation is shown by this photograph here of Winston Churchill, harry truman, and Joseph Stalin smiling and shaking hands. And the point that i really want to reiterate here is that these three men and most of the advisors around them did not believe that what they were doing at potsdam was laying the seeds of a cold war. We know from the scholarship of the 1960s, 1970s, and beyond, a lot of historians read potsdam backwards. That is to say they read it as a start of the
Conference and theyre always occasions for looking back and drawing attention and theres another reason to look back at potsdam as we are reentering a world of Great Power Competition and reentering a world where geopolitics seems to have come back to the fore of international thinking and International Relations thinking. So it is well worth us coming back to this subject. So im especially glad to have a chance to talk to you about it. I wish it was in person again in kansas city. I wish that we weraible to do this face to face, but we will do the very best that we can. The key thing here that i want to return to throughout this presentation is shown by this photograph here of Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and smiling and shaking hands and the point i want to reiterate here is that these three men and most of the advisers around them did not believe that what they were doing at potsdam was laying the seeds of a cold war. We know from the scholarship of the 1960s, 70s and beyond, a
Fighter jets and running out of oxygen in bolivia how relatives of corn a virus patients are having to get their own supply. Chinese stuff are moving out of their consulate in the u. S. City of texas as relations between the worlds super powers deteriorates further theyve met an order from the u. S. Government to leave within 72 hours after the mission was ordered to close on tuesday these are the latest pictures coming to us from texas washington described it as a necessary move to protect American Intellectual property by beijing did not see it as a violation of International Law and in a tit for tat measure china ordered the u. S. To shut down its consulate in the southwestern city of chengdu the Chinese Government says the u. S. Is to blame for the deteriorating deterioration in relations between the 2 powers it with you. Chinas measure is a legitimate necessary response to unjust acts of the us it conforms with International Law basic norms and International Relations and customar
From the center for strategic and International Studies this is just under 45 minutes. Welcome to csis online event. Today were going to be talking about russian influence in the United Kingdom. This is part of a broader report that csis just produced that looks how to counter russian and chinese influence. So last thursday we held a conversation with former australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull that looked at chinese influence in australia. Part of the report examined japan and australia and how chinese influence works there. Todays conversation is to look at how russian influence works in the United Kingdom. As part of that broader work we also looked at germany. The reason Malcolm Turnbull was so important is because we use his framing of influence activities. We looked at covert, coercive and corrupting influence factors. Many reports have certainly examined the supply of influence activities, but very few look at the demand side. How democracies use and accept these influence