I think we will go in and get started. I know we got a lot of ground to cover, a lot of questions that people will want to ask. Some of you have contacted me before hand to launch your request. It afternoon everybody and welcome to this council on Foreign Relations meeting on the u. S. China relations. Im evan osnos from the new yorker and the Brookings Institution or im thrilled to be joined by three of my favorite scholar practitioners and theyll introduce them in a second buffer zone what you commended them for agreeing to wait into one of the most complex and pressing questions, foreignpolicy questions before us, and that of course is a question of whether beijing and washington can avert the pressure towards confrontation, the pressure of history, the patterns of history that drive a ruling power and a rising power into confrontation. And then even the harder question which will also do with, and that is what do we do about it . A couple of housekeeping notes at the very beginning
Of the liberty and National Security program at the Brennan Center for justice. Prior to that she served with u. S. Senator to feingold. Focus was on government secrecy and privacy rights hence joy of getting liza here today. Her area of expertise, of course, is what shes about to speak on, Liberty National security, the tension between privacy and National Security profiling, transparency, accountability, checks and balances an detainee policy. One quick note, when liza finishes the session, we are going to offer you a chance to go upstairs to our rooftop, nice day and we have a reception up there in the sunshine and spring weather. So please join me in welcoming liza to the podium. [applause] thank you, mike, for this kind of introduction and thank you hoover, it can be very dry and technical subject and i salute you all for recognizing its importance and taking the time to understand the core issues that lie beneath the complexities and jargon. I want to tell you a story. To tell yo
South korean president. The panelists including korean and American Scholars who talked about the challenges north korea posed to the u. S. And asian allies. Afterwards they took questions from the audience. This is about 90 minutes. Okay, thank you very much, everybody, for coming to this event at iiss discussion for north korea, boom or bust. Normally we have a 30 drapout rate for those that signal tendance. Today we had a 30 increase. Thats a tribute to our speakers. But also to the issue at hand which is certainly one of the top Security Issues facing the United States and the world and particularly the region. So this event is part of the iiss americas dialogue series where now the third such event we seek to address, shed light on the issues that come up at the dialogue which will be held this weekend in singapore for the 16th year. The dialogue is a gathering of defense ministers around the region and many of their counter parts in other countries. There is one asian defense min
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