Good day. Welcome to the Hudson Institute. Im todd linberg, a seen the yor fe senior fellow here. Were having a conversation today with peter burkowitz, the developer of planning at the state department. Peter is on leave from the stanford university, peters undergraduated years, he has an m. A. In philosophy from the Hebrew University in jerusalem, and then a j. D. And ph. D. From yale. And so hes obviously rather overqualified for any position he finds himself in. But were glad hes able to join us today to talk about this report. The elements of the china challenge. This is a report by the policy planning staff in the office of the secretary of state. Ill just say a word or two about that office. The policy planning staff is an office within the secretarys office. So it is tasked principally by the secretary to undertake such research and policy planning, indeed, as he zeem deems fit and this staff is, of course, a political appointee and has led the office since early in 2019. Let m
Look at the really disinflationary dampening you are seeing in the bond market. I dont want to make a big deal about it, but yield gives way to lower yield. Im looking at fiveyear, fiveyear breakevens, and there is a little bit of an ebb, an increase in the disinflationary tendency. That claimsort number at 8 30. Francine a really important one, and we have some great interviews coming up from the Bloomberg New Economy Forum focusing on health today. A conversation also with bill gates. Lets get to first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika joe biden warns that the delay in starting the president ial transition could set bet the effort to distribute the coronavirus vaccine. Could setback the effort to disturb the coronavirus fencing. Trump thent Trump Administration is being urged to begin working with biden. Wisconsin Election Officials have ordered a partial vote recount that was requested by the top by the trump campaign. There will be recount in two heavily democrat
People because as we get older. d our immune systems deteriorate. This vaccine is different from the other 2 that weve been reporting on because it is made from a weakened version of the common cold virus found in chimpanzees, which is then modified to make sure that it cannot grow in humans is given in 2 doses. And so far is reporting a 99 percent efficacy rate. All participants have been gently generating neutralizing antibodies. So it is knocking out the virus in their bloodstream with no reported side effects. And that is very good news here because this is the vaccine that britain is betting on. It has bought 100000000 doses of it so far. And so we are eagerly awaiting the phase 3 result. Whats interesting is that initially this vaccine was one of the front runners, and we thought wed be getting results much earlier. But as we know in the last 10 days, the pfizer bio and tech and the madonna vaccines have pulled ahead and, and have shown that they are more than 90 percent effectiv
The u. N. His bio is Available Online so let me be very brief in introducing him. Mark has more than 30 years of experience in both humanitarian and development context. Most of it spent with the u. K. s department for international development, which he eventually led as permanent secretary. He had led their humanitarian responses to such context as iraq, syria, nepal, several cases in africa, and haiti. He was also their directorgeneral for policy and corporate performance and finance. An extraordinary wealth of experience both in the context working where operations occur and on the infrastructure that helps to manage them. So were delighted to have sir mark with us today. Mark, there are innumerable humanitarian crises under way right now and at large scale. I know you Just Launched the u. N. s consolidated humanitarian appeal for the funding to support that effort. But today we want to focus on covid. And what the pandemic has meant for the crises that you helped to manage and for
And President Trump and Vice President pence putting the fullcourt press on those two Georgia Senate runoffs, the nypd says shooting and murder are soaring in a new push by some on the left to defend the police. Plus tensions rising on the border as a Trump Administration races to build as much portable as possible and while it still cant come im Jackie Deangelis and for elizabeth macdonald, the evening edit starts right now. While President Biden is filling key positions, he is reportedly feeling heavy pressure from progressives when it is in a party. Joining an outright 2020 Advisory Board member harmeet dhillon, great to see you tonight, lets start with whats happening, biden was speaking today and a reporter questioned him about this and basically saying there was not enough diversity in his cabinet and not enough black people in his cabinet. Your thoughts . Yes, i agree that the criticism from the left, there is talk about diversity, talk about women, quotas and various regards bu