Sovereignty and that is an issue that is very close to the government here in beijing ok lets take a closer look at the white paper Andrew Thompson as a visiting Senior Research fellow at the National University of Singapore Still equine new school of Public Policy and joins us from singapore so as we heard our correspondent there he was talking about china now focusing on sovereignty as a huge part of its white paper can you explain why this has become the focus for chinas Defense Strategy now. Well i think if you look at the last paper in 2015 it really focused on chinas maritime interests and its security situation on its periphery and with its neighbors this paper much more is turning towards internal issues i mean its actually quite different than the 2015 paper in that it really reflects xi jinping has continued grasp of authority and his continued oversight of the p. L. O. So it also very much underscores the is a party army its the armed wing of the communist party and its very
long journey ends after the u.s. military shoots it down. . we ll look at the job lies ahead as crews work to recover the instruments carried by the balloon, china reacts with china adding an already strained relationship between washington and beijing. live in hong kong and the political fall-out democrats defend the president against republicans who argued biden waited too long. . . . live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom. with leila hurruck. u.s. military is savage operations are underway right now in shallow waters off the coast of south carolina, where a suspected chinese spy balloon crashed after shot down by a fighter jet on saturday. a reaction from the chinese government has been swift and angry. a foreign ministry statement accused washington of overreacting to a civilian unmanned air ship and the chinese defense ministry warned it reserve theed the right to use, quote, necessary means to deal with similar situations but washington has been skeptical and
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Plentiful job security. So we are here today to talk to a few former governors about health care solutions, at a moment when there is a lot of potential for change. What they saw from their perch as governor and how they see the situations thousand with governors and the work they do will be quite affected. I will did a brief round of introductions then let them introduce themselves through a few opening remarks they prepared. I have jim doug as. Jim hodges. Ben nelson. And all the way on my left is haley barbour, former governor of mississippi. Thank you so much for coming to join us here. [ inaudible ] thats good. Just been waiting there with that one. So i will start right here next to me with governor douglas if you want to kick us off with a few opening remarks for the panel. Happy to, sarah, thank you. And haley is on your right. Well positioned for this panel. I have the privilege of serving from 2003 to 2011. About the midpoint in 200 of we passed health care in vermont. I can
Days. The election. Pope francis celebrates mass in the countrys poorest estate. Berlin film festival, iranian moirs showing how life is like amovies showing how life is lik. And Michel Platini shows injustice. Hello there, a warm welcome to this hour of news. We begin of course in syria. Where the civil war appears to be entering a potentially more dangerous phase. A wave of air strikes on schools and hospitals has left at least 50 civilians dead. The strikes hit four hospitals, two in azaz, on the Turkish Border an of and two in the idlib problem province, blamed russia. Doctors without borders says a hogs it supports was, quote, deliberately hit by air strikes in idlib province. These strikes come despite an agreement last week by russia and other world powers to a pause in hostilities. That deal has been further weakened in comments made by president assad in the last hour. He said a truce doesnt mean each side had to stop using weapons. More on that statement in just a moment but