Next a discussion about the political future and chinas military modernization with policy experts from the broking institution and at the German Marshall Fund. The panel also talks about the tension between taiwan and china and the probability of the u. S. Going to war with china over taiwan. Welcome everyone. Im Suzanne Maloney Vice President and director of the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution and im delighted to welcome you to todays event marking the release of an important new book titled u. S. Taiwan relations with chinas challenge lead to a crisis. It is a great honor to help launch such a profoundly important to study of the u. S. Taiwan relations and to celebrate its truly impressive coauthors, ryan and richard bush who are my colleagues here at brookings and Bonnie Glaser of the German Marshall Fund. I want to congratulate them on the publication of this book. Growing concerns about chinas intentions and plans prompted an enormous amount of policy attentio
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And heres president Tayyip Erdogan of turkey arriving just a short time ago. But the absence of both russian president Vladimir Putin and chinese president xi jinping highlights the rising tensions over russia and its war in ukraine at this years gathering. Both leaders sent their Foreign Ministers in their place. Its the first time xi has missed the gathering. The event will highlight india Prime Minister Narendra Modis attempt as host to promote the country as a major global power, and himself as dominant world leader ahead of a crucial election next year. Were looking at why the 620 gathering is so important and how the decisions made in delhi this weekend can impact you and the rest of the world. But first, what is the 620 . The group of 20 is a bloc of the worlds 20 largest economies that was formed two years after the 1997 Asian Financial crisis in response to thailand devaluing its currency and the resulting deep recession in much of east asia. Originally, the 620 was a forum fo
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To join in on the conversation on twitter. You can find that at fdd. Also please silence your cell phones this morning. I am pleased to hand over the conversation to todays moderator from the associated press. Thanks a lot. Thank you for being here. It has been a confusing and frightening path several months past when it comes to north korea, and confusing for americans, people in guam, south korea, japan. On the one hand, weve seen a level of saber rattling you do not typically see between Nuclear Armed nations, in a sense that we are closer to potential actual military conflict between the u. S. And north korea than perhaps we have been. On the other hand, you hear those in the administration are that what they are doing has been working and north korea feels squeezed by this. A senior official told me last night, they feel they have made more progress on north korea in last six months than the u. S. Has made in decades. Where does that leave us . Who should we believe . What options