Officers and soldiers they covered. Among the speakers were former abc news nightline anchor ted koppel and yasutsune hirashiki, author of on the frontlines of the Television War a legendary war cameraman in vietnam. This event at the National Archives in washington is about 90 minutes. Now it is time to introduce our moderator terribly irving terry irving. He went into a career in television news, spending for decades covering wartime and political disasters throughout the United States. E has one and number of awards ladies and gentlemen, please welcome terrier thing in our distinguished panelists. Terry irving and our distinguished panelists. [applause] terry good evening. I should explain that none of these people are terry irving, but i am. [laughter] younow, we have here see, this is what you come prepared with everything you have ever written. We have barry who reported on virtually every Major International event, wars, policies of seven u. S. President s. Barry covered the fal
Roughly half of all syrians, are displaced and the assad regime bears overwhelming responsibility for this destruction and extremism it has spawned. However, none of this would have been possible without the support of iran and russia, both of which intervened on assads behalf to extend influence in a region and counter the u. S. And its partners. With the support of the u. S. And Coalition Partners, the Syrian Democratic forces succeeded in sweeping isis out of raqqah in october. Of course, despite losing much of its territory in syria and iraq, isis remains a major threat. And theres also the ongoing danger posed by al qaeda, syria, and affiliates which maintain significant influence in oppositioncontrolled areas. So its worth highlighting two recent developments. First, the u. S. , russia, and jordan signed a memorandum of principles on november 8 maintaining the administrative arrangements in oppositionheld areas in southwest syria. Yet iran and its proxies have deepened their foot
Guys, can you push up a little bit . Thank you, everybody. Were just here to support the general and all of the generals. We are here to support our countrys military. If the country shuts down which could very well be, the budget should be handled a lot differently than its been handled in the last long period of time, many years, but if for any reason it shuts down the worst thing is what happens to our military. Were rebuilding our military. Were bringing it to a level that its never been at and the worst thing is for our military. We dont want that to happen. Im here to support our military. Our military has to be the best in the world by far, and as you know, its been depleted over the last long period of time, and when we finish there wont be anything like it. We need that now almost more than at any time in the past. So im here for our military. Im here to support our great, great and very powerful military, and were going to keep it that way, but were going to make it much bett
They have spent a lot of time in vietnam i believe in the 90s or earlier than that as journalists for Eastern Economic review. And they both speak perfect vietnamese. I hope they dont start speaking that here. So todays topic is to discuss vietnams relations with both United States and china. Because of the flareup of the South China Sea dispute in recent years there have been a lot of questions and a lot of skepticism about vietnams alignment choices, external Foreign Policy choices. And china and vietnam apparently theyre both governed by communist party and its oneparty rule. Although could you argue that the political reform in two countries have taken different speed. So we are also eager to hear from the experts how the vietnamese domestic politics evolution also affects their Foreign Policy choices between the United States and china and how do we understand the future of these two bilateral relations. Thats enough talking from me. Ill invite dr. Pun to share with us her perspec
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