Watch our live coverage starting at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Former Deputy National security adviser ben rhodes on the rise of chinas global influence. He joined the ucla center for International Relations for a broad discussion on Foreign Policy and National Security. Everyone. Rning, it is a pleasure to have you back for one of our webinars. Today, we have the pleasure of bening as our special guest he will speak and then he and i will have a conversation. To postrage you all questions through the q a feature. Limited to the second half, i will begin to wrap up our discussion and i will start posing some of your questions. This will run about one hour. I want to mention next week, next wednesday we will have our last webinar for the seminar partnerll be with our novelg about his new which is a look into the future of warfare and cyber warfare. He is a fantastic thinker and writer. Rhodes. Y, ben he is the former National Security Deputy National security advisor. Of pensee the world and a
We will be speaking to. When we could start to get a vaccine. We hear there are some in clinical trials, wondering if perhaps that is the next hope to look forward to. Francine from the conversations i have had, and they are very preliminary, it looks like a vaccine will be a couple years away unless they can speeded up. But there seemed to be three drugs that are working and fighting it off once you catch the coronavirus. We will delve deeper and see if it will make or break drug companies. Lets get to first word news with viviana hurtado. Viviana we begin with President Trump, who did a 180 on the coronavirus p he now says it is so bad, it may drive the economy into recession. He tried the president spent weeks minimizing the impact, which led state and local into the initiative to take a response. The republicancontrolled chamber will take up a house bill. It includes paid sick leave and now to the french president , Emmanuel Macron, who told the french people, we are at war. The fr
A michael local welcome to d w special coverage of the Munich Security Conference the annual event brings together World Leaders top ministers and experts the 1st day of talks have already shown potential progress talks between the u. S. And the taliban may lead to a fresh Peace Process for afghanistan and an unprecedented meeting between chinese and vatican diplomats has taken place for the 1st time in decades one topic has dominated the conference fears that the western powers could be losing their unified front on friday germanys president warned that a lack of western solidarity was fueling global insecurity todays panel is set to tackle that topic with nato chief u. N. Stoltenberg and u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei oh joined by pretentiously the Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov we also. Understand that mark esper the u. S. Defense secretary may also be at the talk today at the event in munich we have de w. s chief Political Editor me. And here in the studio im joined b
Time it recognizes that our 2nd tier parties are rogue states such as north korea and iran and finally dealing with violent extremist organizations will likely be an enduring threat for years to come being in europe i know that there has been much discussion about the challenges from russia so this morning i want to focus on the pentagons top concern the peoples republic of china next year will mark the 20th anniversary of a decision that fundamentally altered the course of International Affairs chinas admission into the World Trade Organization i was working in the United States senate at the time and 2 competing arguments over chinas membership dominated the public debate. The prevailing notion of the day was that if we allowed the p. R. C. In the b. T. O. And other multilateral institutions china would continue on its path of economic reform and eventually become a market oriented trading partner more broadly increased engagement with the liberal world order would also spur politica