Hello and welcome to this special edition of conflict zone on the crisis in hong kong. Over the last year, weve interviewed several probate janan prodemocracy figures, and we challenge them all to justify what theyve done and said some of their arguments have clearly failed to stand the test of time. Nathan law, a leading prodemocracy activist, fled to london in june after a warrant was issued for his arrest. This week i asked him if hed ever believed his movement could take on beijing. And when i think we have already achieved a lot of things where demonstrate the courage and bravery of how come people and making sure the well knows that well received staying and collaborating in combating the authoritarian expansion of china. So i think we have awakened the world, but the result isnt in doubt, is it, china will get its way, will get its way, wont it . Well, beijing has been suppressing hong kong people at the cost of our basic freedom. And as a matter of fact, the world has been reac
Few hours ago. The Spokes Person for the t. P. S. That appeared on the regional to gray and state Television Without television went off around the time that the reports of the bombardment started with. The t. P. S. Leadership have said that the attack has begun, and they have described it as a heavy bombardment of the city. The European Union has called the killing of irans Top Nuclear Scientists, a criminal act, and deserving all parties to exercise maximum restraint. Irans president is blaming the assassination on israel gunmen ambushed a vehicle vehicle carrying must in fact reside in his bodyguards, the tehran on friday. Iran has said it will retaliate. Large rallies are being held in france against a new villain in that restricting the filming, and publication of Police Officers images. Critics say the legislation is an attempt to gavin media and shield Police Officers from public scrutiny. In india, hundreds of police and part of military personnel have been deployed to control
Of freedom and democracy in American Foreign policy will feature general hr mcmasters who served in the military for 34 years and held the position of the 20 sixth assistant to the president for National Security affairs as well as being a close friend of my husband for many years. He will talk about his new book battlegrounds the fight to defend the free world, with doctor michael crow, the sixteenth president of Arizona State university. Mccain Institute Trustee and a dear friend of the family. We are honored to host mcmaster for what is an important and timely discussion on us foreign policy. You can begin. Glad to see everybody here. What i want to do first is say the book is a fantastic piece of work, got many little tags on it. I want to spend some time relative to a set of core ideas you put out in this book some that are fantastic in the sense that they are concepts we should be using in the articulation of our thinking about foreignpolicy and National Defense policy and so for
Five short years after the last shots of world war ii had been fired, the United States army had been reduced to an active force of 600,000. A great number of these were scattered about the world on occupation duty. But the armed forces of the communists, soviet russia and red china, remained on a strong wartime footing and in belligerent posture. Aggression was soon to come. Americans would be fighting against tyranny for the third time in 32 years. Korea, a crowded Little Finger of land, but of key importance to the free world in the far east. What happened here opened the next major chapter in the history of the United States army. The war began here, at the 38th parallel. Just how did this imaginary line become the fuse for a threeyear explosion . Before the japanese surrender in world war ii, we made an agreement with the russians who were then our allies. When surrender came on the asian mainland, Russian Troops would accept the surrender of Japanese Forces north of the 38th para
In 1849 it took the clipper ship flying cloud 89 days to reach San Franciscos golden gate harbor from new york. In the spring of 1945, no point on earth was more than 40 flying hours away from San Francisco. In those 100 years, San Francisco grew larger as the world grew smaller. It developed into a vigorous and k k cosmopolitan center. For nine weeks in the spring of 1945, San Francisco was the center of mens hopes for lasting peace. De delegates came to San Francisco on april 25th, 1945 respecting almost 2,000 Million People all at war when the conference was begun. They came with hope, born of common struggle. They dime design together machinery to end a war. A curse that in 30 years killed 40 million human beings. Countless millions more, armed and unarmed were maimed. When the conference convened, Franklin Roosevelt was missing. The man that helped weld the United Nations together as a team, and helped to keep them united died before he could see him dream come true. But his words