The undoing project. He has also written the big short and the new new things. Join us for indepth the first sunday of the month at noon eastern on booktv on cspan2. Negotiations are underway with the United States, texaco and canada to modernize the north American Free trade agreement. Earlier this week mexican trade officials were among the group of panelists who discussed how the nafta talks will impact mexico. This Panel Discussion hosted by the Wilson Center in washington dc is two hours. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. If you are looking for a place we are willing to sell these seats at a deflated price, there are scalpers outside, dont use them, just give the money directly to me. Welcome to the Wilson Center. Thank you for being here. When we talked about doing an event in august a voice inside my head said you are crazy. In washington no one will come. Maybe nafta is important enough. Maybe our existential questions will attract an audience. Then we hit on the bright idea
Interest in afghanistan and the women there. Hello, im here at the center for new American Security. A washington dc based nonpartisan and bipartisan think tank. I have the most profound strategic challenges confronting the United States is managing the rise of increasingly assertive and powerful china. How to deal with the military power is the reason for todays special event. The 11th and newest book by Peter Navarro is entitled crouching tiger what chinas militarism means for the world. Distinguished scholars from china, Toshi Yoshihara and Benjamin Goldberg team. First, let me say a few words to frame the china debate in the context of todays events. This is december 7, a reminder of both strategic surprise and how a rising asia power might seek expansion of control throughout asia. The concern today is a reemerged nationalistic and increasingly provisional list china is bent on establishing a larger sphere of influence. Seeking to restore china to greatness simultaneously seeking
Military powers, reason for todays special event with professor, author, and peter is 11th newest book is entitled crouching tiger what China Military means for the war. And delighted to have not only peter here today, but also to also distinguished psychological larceny of china toshi and steven helper hear from each of them after the main presentation by peter, but first let me just say a few words to frame the china debate in the context of todays event. This is december 7th, december 7th is reminder of both straw toggic surprise and how a raising asia power might seek expansion of the influence and control throughout asia even at the expense of major power war. The concern today, however, is that a reemerge nationalistic and increasingly revision of china is bent on a influence and undermining First World War order. Trying to restore china greatness and he simultaneously thinks to rejuvenate chinese nation and preserve communist party. In addition to comprehensive reforms at home s
Of this government. Mr. Ahmadinejad managed to isolate iran diplomatically, and mr. Rouhani is in reality bringing iran out of diplomatic isolation. So, yes, they are succeeding, and the western media is not paying attention. They should. They should, to begin with, start reading what mr. Rouhani has said all over the years. Back in 1999, iran, you know, the Islamic Republic, experienced its most serious political unrest. That was the Tehran University unrest which spread to the entire country. Which politician do you think it was that went to the public and supported the revolutionary guard, and the Police Suppression of the students movement. It was mr. Rouhani. Mr. Rouhani systematically called the students foreign agents. Mr. Rou manny systematically at the extreme National Security council was banning newspapers. And now, people are expecting that mr. Rouhani, of all the people, is going to allow freedom of the press . Why . Why . This is what i believe is the mistake of the weste
And jailing dissidents and bloggers and journalists will turn to its historic enemies and treat them with magnanimity. Its a silly contention. But that said, i think the way that the issue was used in the soviet context was that it was a tool to help bring about the end of the soviet union, not merely to contain the soviet union, but to end the soviet union and so, too, it can be used in the iranian context. When you look at the boldness of someone like senator jackson who confronted the soviet union and directly linked most favored nation status to improvements in human rights and free immigration, that was a tool which drove the soviets absolutely crazy, and if you read the memoirs of any of these guys, you see when carter and reagan would bring up the names of dissidents, they really, really hated it, and i think thats one sign that its the right approach. I think that human rights is actually a real achilles heel of the Iranian Regime because they are dependent upon external actors