And subcommittee on Global Competitiveness will come to order. I know this seems a little strac strange with an empty room except for three witnesses live in front of me and many of our colleagues are going to be joining us virtually. But i want to welcome all of you nonetheless to this important hearing. This subcommittee continues to do its work in exploring the unfair trade practices of foreign governments, especially china and russia. The topic of censorship in china is a common one because it is growing effect on business in the United States as well as culture. Last fall, for example, the National Basketball association had the Market Access blocked in china because an individual american citizen using a media platform not allowed in china expressed a political opinion. Now the topics have become more manufactu important. The timely information about the spread of covid19 due to chinese censorship has contributed to the havoc wreaked on our economy and health and indeed the pande
A short time ago, an american airplane dropped one bomb on hiroshima. It destroyed its usefulness to the enemy. That bomb has more power than 20,000 tons of tnt. With this bomb, we have now added a new and revolutionary increase in destruction. It is an atomic bomb. It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe. What has been done is the greatest achievement of organized science in history. On august 6th, 1945, the United States detonated the First Nuclear weapon in history over the city of hiroshima, japan. Followed by a second detonation august 9th over the city of nagasaki. Six days later, japan surrendered, bringing in and to the second world war. I have received this afternoon a message from the japanese government by the secretary of on august 11th. I did this reply a full acceptance of the declaration. It specifies the Unconditional Surrender. Through the work of cspan city store, we will share stories of the people that contributed to this world altering event. We begin
Senate committee on finance, subcommittee on International Trade customs and Global Competitiveness will come to order. I know this seems a little strange, with an empty room, except for three witnesses live in front of me and many of our colleagues are going to be joining us virtually. But i want to welcome all of you nonetheless, to this important hearing. This subcommittee continues to do its work in exploring the unfair trade practices, a foreign governments especially china and russia. The topic of censorship in china is a common one, because its growing effect on business in the United States. Is as well as culture. Last fall for example, the National Basketball association has its Market Access locked in china. Because an individual american citizen, using a media platform not even allowed in china, expressed a political opinion. Now the topic has become much more important, the lack of timely Accurate Information about the spread of covid19, due to chinese censorship has contri
Referred to as a liberal consensus of the 19 forties and 19 fifties. And try to work through it actually is happening in terms of the kind of main fear of american politics. The possibilities, the political actions and in the way people are thinking about politics and the american forties and fifties. Yet three readings, all of which, in different ways, deal with the kind of idea of political ideology, and all of which share a set of assumptions about the way that ideas matter to politics. So, we will sort of be thinking, today, about how the kind of from those ideas, and this is a kind of transition classes were removed from discussing the geopolitics of the cold war, and the red scare, into discussing sort of, what else is happening in america in the 1940s, and 19 fifties. So, should we start with daniel bell . Everybodys favorite reading from today. I assume there are very few questions about this one . Yeah . So, is he, essentially, saying that, like, the political ideologies you c
Politics. Today well be looking at kind of the rest of the political landscape. What people now refer to as the liberal consensus of the 1940s and 1950s and determine what actually happened in the main thoroughfare of american politics and the way people are thinking about politics. You also had free readings, all of which in every day dealing the kind of idea of political ideology and all share a set of assumptions that ideas matter. So sort of thinking today how they kind of frame those ideas, and this is the kind of transition class where we move from discussing the geopolitics of the cold war and red scare to discussing whats happening in america in the 1940s and 1950s. I assume there are very few questions about this one. Yeah . So is he essentially saying that, like, the political ideology in the imperial age are just kind of not worth it anymore, and focusing on Economic Issues and focusing on the government and just making that one country the best they could possibly be the be