Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 with the recognition u. S. Leadership might not really return in the way it has been in the past. This is where i think it would be interesting to see where japan would head. Ill collect a question or two and let the panel respond and turn over to matt. If you have questions for the panel, now is your chance. Youll get another shot with matts panel and then over coffee. We have mics. I teach at American University and used to be an american diplomat. Listening to the presentation of japans interests and objectives in this situation, one cant help thinking that there is tremendous value to japan in having a close, cooperative relationship with south korea in the region and in these multilateral organizations and yet theres some obvious tensions in that relationship. I would love to hear from our japanese intellects why you think the japanese elite are prioritizing other issues instead of getting long with south korea and what y
Good afternoon and welcome to is newly renovated headquarters. I am the Senior Vice President at the middle east institute. I am pleased to welcome you to todays important and timely commsby examining cent approach to the middle east. We will explore prospects for an effective u. S. Military role in the region, especially given current news from northeast syria. Great panel of experts to discuss this with you today. Ken pollock, we are also pleased to welcome back senior fellow and director of the defense and Security Program after a oneyear fellowship at the department of defense. We are happy to have him back and look forward to hearing his insights from his upcoming article in the 2019 fall issue quarterlyhington entitled broken partnerships can washington get security . Eric schmidtht is a writer for the new york times. Since 2007, he has reported on terrorism issues with assignments to pakistan, afghanistan, Southeast Asia among others. Is a coauthor of counterstrike the untold st
Syria and us military leadership in conflict zones. This is an hour and 45 minutes. Good afternoon and welcome to our newly renovated headquarters. I am gerald feierstein, Senior Vice President at the middle east institute. Welcome to todays important and timely panel, examining centcoms approach to the middle east. This gives us an opportunity to reflect on the approach and explore prospects for an effective us military role in the region especially given current news from northeast syria. We have a great panel of experts to discuss this with you today. Kenneth pollack, dana stroll and we are pleased to welcome back senior fellow director of the defense of Security Program after a 1year fellowship in the department of defense. We are happy to have him back and look forward to hearing his insights from his upcoming article in the 2019 fall issue of the washington quarterly entitled broken partnerships, can washington get Security Cooperation right . Moderating todays panel of distingui
Current news from northeast syria. We have great panel of experts to discuss this with you today. Ken pollack, dana stroul and were also pleased to welcome back in the eye senior fellow and director of the defense and Security Program bilal saab after a oneyear fellowship in the department of defense. We are happy to have him back and look forward to hearing his insights from his upcoming article in the 2019 fall issue of the washington quarterly entitled broken partnerships can washington get Security Cooperation right . Moderating todays panel of the six experts is eric schmitt. Eric is a writer covering terrorism and National Security for the new york times. Since 2007 he has reported on terrorism issues with assignments to pakistan, afghanistan, north africa, southeast asia, among others. He is a coauthor of counterstrike, the untold story of americas secret campaign against alqaeda. Published in 2011. Before joining the times, eric was an education reporter at the tricity herald i
Wall street Global Economy editor Jon Hilsenrath. Great to see you guys. We have a lot coming up. James carafano. Mohamed on the economy and markets, former pennsylvania governor on 2020 race and policy director Peter Navarro joins us talking trade, markets and the fed, dont miss a moment of it, big 3 hours, markets have a firmer tone, mix trading dayiest, we are waiting on crucial speech this morning from Federal Reserve jay powell, the central bank chief addressing commentary policy and future rate cuts, we have Jon Hilsenrath to tell us what youre expecting, jon. Jon itll be hard for powell to go on a limb, theres a lot of Division Within the fed itself. We talk about the pressure that powell is under from President Trump. President trump wants him to cut rates, theres some he is attendance as we reported earlier this week about half of the Regional Bank president s, one eager to move rates down at the last meeting, powell has to set the table carefully. You had exclusive and fantas