Rather welcome to going underground china in the news probably more of a coronavirus but people will know that chinas one child policy arguably may have helped it become the superpower of the 21st century people are going to be surprised when reading your new book that there was no fostering programs for children one of the side effects of that one child policy before you turned up on the scene well thats right thank you very much for having me yes when we landed in china they want me to see i had known no understanding at source of course most of the children. That were abandoned. On their way into ended up in institutions and for the very little younger babies got the opportunity for International Doctrine but there is nothing happening in china now i know you write about your child in oratory speaking to me from how that. The book tells of how you were a navy Royal Navy Submarine a juror in the cold war why is it you didnt seem to have any of the prejudices which are arguably being
Hostility toward russia per chance. They see company stay with r t a day said half an hour. Im after a time they were going underground as britains code recovered pm Boris Johnson flies to brussels to try to negotiate with the largest trading block in the world and as this country tries desperately to stem a worse coronavirus death for capita rate than trumps usa or both are now as brazil coming out of the show 42 years since the communist party of china voted Deng Xiaoping paramount leader of the peoples republic paving the way for lifting 800000000 people out of poverty we speak to the britain who introduced foster care to the global superpower of the 21st century it is routinely defamed in the west for terminating us. And is the un predicts coronavirus may push of a 200000000 more people into extreme poverty we speak to a book a long list of novelist about his portrayal of londons underbelly of ultraviolet crime arguably created by upper class political ideology and ask why politici
The most important issue. The blur of information we are getting, the effect on the markets, the effect on the nations politics, it doesnt matter. The pandemic statistics, the cases, the hospitalizations, and yes, rising death rates are front and center. Jonathan couldnt agree more. The conversation is so familiar to everyone sitting in london, in europe watching this play out. You start at 10 00 p. M. Curfew you start to limit dining. Then what . That is the concern for a lot of people this morning. Tom im going to use the hands up. That has proven so effective on radio worldwide. Think of it like three hockey bucks of death in europe. Inis only one hockey puck the United States. Europe is way out front of this, and i am frightened by the idea we will begin to see the deaths expand. The other thing i am frightened by, lisa takes a day off, and rumor has it she left day bear, and i think shes returned a bull. [laughter] jonathan lets see how long this one last. I reckon we can get to a
David hawkings is the editor in chief. There are leadership elections. Explain how they go about the two parties electing their leaders and can we see any changes . We will see some so, they meet in caucuses, different causes. No surprise here. The things are happening a little bit differently this year because of the pandemic. The Democratic Caucus which is happening the first of the meetings is happening today. There is a virtual opportunity for members to stay home, stay in their districts and cast the votes in the upcoming leadership elections using a secure app that the democrats have come up with. We wont see any changes at the top. The republican leadership, kevin mccarthy, steve scalise, maybe, maybe not liz cheney, thats staying the same. Were not seeing any changes at the top there either. Remarkably long run of nancy pelosi as the leader and jim clyburn of South Carolina as number three, thats all continuing. Thats continuing for a into a 16th year. Its a remarkably long run
Rice universities Public Policy hosted the event. It is over one hour. Welcome to the Baker Institute webinar. I am steve lewis. The head of our china studies program. We are happy to have you all this afternoon. Thank you for tuning in. I am hoping not only do you find it informative and unique colleague, but froma welcome respite domestic politics, which is never as important as aging asian affairs. I would like to thank all of you again. Our hardworking staff at the Baker Institute. My Research Assistant for helping. The foundation for endowing a lot of the events here. The doctor i have known her for 10 years one of our top scholars. I think it has been 10 years. She was a postdoc here for asian interested in media. Had her and her expertise in many of our past webinars on chinese politics. We are happy to have her again today. Also, we are happy this year because she is newly minted as an associate professor, tenured professor at media studies at the university of virginia. The on