Language. speaking foreign language. speaking foreign language. speaking foreign language. thank you, everyone and welcome to the sfvrz meeting of tuesday, december 15, 2015, madam clerk can you please call the roll. Supervisor avalos supervisor breed commissioner campos supervisor cowen supervisor farrell supervisor kim not presents supervisor mar supervisor president wesson sin. Supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee madam president we have quorum. Ladies and gentlemen, please join us in the pledge of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all thank you very much madam clerk any communication. There are no communication to report madam president. Colleagues, any changes to the regular meeting mini i minutes of november 3rd seeing none, motion to approve by supervisor mar seconded by commissioner campos colleagues well take that without objection. Well take that without objection. Those Meeting Minu
Michael pillsbury director of the hutson Institutes Center on chinese strategy argues that china has a secret plan to supplant the u. S. As the Worlds Largest superpower by 2049. He makes the case in his book, the hundredyear marathon. He recently talked about his book at the hutson institute in washington d. C. This is an our and a half. Good afternoon. I hope all of you can hear me. I am Husain Haqqani the director for south and central asia here at the Hudson Institute and its a pleasure for me today to host this discussion on the hundredyear marathon, the book by Michael Pillsbury who is now a senior fellow and director for chinese strategy here at the Hudson Institute. Hes a distinguished defense policy adviser former highranking government. He served under the reagan and george h. W. Bush administrations. The book which i commend to everyone in the audience preferably properly bought in hardcover, paid for. Actually reveals how the peoples peoples republic of china census funding
Year marathon the book by Michael Pillsbury who is now a senior fellow and director for chinese strategy here at the out son institute. He is a distinguished defense policy adviser, former highranking Government Official and author of numerous books and reports on china. He served under the reagan and george h. W. Bush administrations. The book which i commend to everyone in the audience, preferably properly bought in hard cover, paid for, thats the way one helps fellow authors. Actually how the peoples republic of china since its founding has been pursuing a long areterm goal to reestablish chinese global reeminence michael thinks it has outwitted the ute in the process. Not long ago i wrote a become on pakistanu. S. Relations after having servedded a adam boars and i make a similar argument. It seems everybody manages to outwit washington, dc and heres my take as a foreigner who admires the United States and loves american. The reason is the americans always assume that the others ba
We are advantage evangelists on behalf of the study of history. And one of our judges in a conversation today began talking about a High School Teacher he had had when he was 14 or 15 years old. And that teacher, and teachers of adolescents are the Unsung Heroes and heroines of our profession. Thats when you plant an abiding, lifelong affection and even addiction to history. One to have historical muses has been sadly, neglected in the American Academy the american university, for a generation. And one of the ideas of our founders, one of whom i will introduce to you in a moment was that something that the h. F. Guggenheim family could go to arrest could do to arrest this malady and reverse it, is support an annual prize for the best work of military history in english during the preceding year. Finish and that is why we are here this evening. History, as written by practitioners of it who have produced works that indicate enlightened research, who write gracefully, who have in the bac
Contains the fourth most populous country in the world and the largest islamic country in the world. They are, in fact, one and the same indonesia. A fragmentary state spread across an archipelago of 13,000 islands, indonesias motto is unity in diversity. Lately, it does not seem so unified. East timor recently broke away. Rebel forces on aceh and irian jaya threaten the same. While most of indonesia is islamic the island of bali is mostly hindu. Is this why radical muslims recently bombed a popular nightclub here . Or it is because the tropical paradise was a mecca for western tourists . In the current war against terrorism, we explore the geographical roots of the tourist economy that crashed after the violent attack in 2002; whether the influx of visitors will threaten the local indigenous culture; and how balis distinct culture fits into the complex diversity of indonesia. These balinese fishermen still use the methods passed down from their grandfathers. But life around them is ch