Socalled mother and baby homes in ireland. Stranded in yemen the dangers for tens of thousands of ethiopian migrants and why they cant return home. Im joined by just go with the sports as tiger woods prepares to return to competitive gold for the 1st time in 5 months get his view on the back drives mats on the fence and playing in the current virus pandemic. So were beginning this news hour with a flare up in fighting on the border between armenia and azerbaijan 13 soldiers and at least one civilian have been killed in the heaviest fighting between the 2 neighbors in years the 2 former soviet republics went to war in the 1990 s. Over the disputed region of not gone or cut above the areas internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan but its controlled by armenians a fragile cease fire was agreed in 1994 but tension has simmered have a sense. By 216200. 00 soldiers and civilians were killed in whats known as the april war russia brokered that cease fire and the International Communit
Accompanied by increases in stress, anxiety e and anger. Welcome. Im ed steinfeld, welcome to this special book talk on angrynomics, a new and really timely work by my friend mark blyth and his coor author. Were joined here today coauthor, were joined by mark, the william r. Rhodes professor of International Economics and professor of Political Science at international and public affairs. Mark and i are going to chat for 20 or 25 minutes or so, but then we would love to take questions if you all in the audience. In fact, if you have a lot of questions, well cut our chat shorter, and well go right to your questions. Those of you joining us via zoom, it would be great if you could write your questions in the q and a box, the q and a window, and well monitor those. And for those of you joining via youtube live, just write your questions in the comment section. Those questions will get to us. And please start writing those questions now, especially if youve already had the pleasure and pri
And online censorship by countries such as china. Richard gere chaired the International Campaign for tibet testifies at the Senate Finance subcommittee hearing. The Senate Committee on finance come subcommittee on International Trade cousins 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 of foreign governments, especially china and russia. The topic of censorship in china is a common one because its a growing effect on business in the United States. Last fall, for example, the National Association had its Market Access blocked in china because an individual american citizen using a media platform not even allowed in china expressed a political opinion. Now the topic has
Escalate to the point of violen violence. One of the things that makes this particular crisis different, and there have been three others of this sort during, since xi has been in office. This one is different because it has done violent. Which is concerning because it suggests that those agreements and protocols are no longer working. It also tells you what the triggers could be, which is that they were supposed to be in the process of disengagement. They had met on june 6th to actually disengage and on june 15th, something went wrong during the process. Both sides accuse d the other o instigating the clash, but what essentially resulted in deaths as chairman schiff mentioned, for the first time in a number of years, and that suggests they both first need to get back to what they were doing. Theyre in dialogue with both the military and diplomatic levels to at least disengage. The problem might be in where the triggers might be if either theres a misunderstanding or not respecting the
Coronavirus pandemic continues. Spoken policy experts about chinas global influence and why continued engagement with china is in the best interest of the u. S. Without objection, the chair may declare a recess at any time. Before we proceed to our topic the National Security implications of the u. S. And china relationship in a post covid world, housekeeping matters. The session will be conducted on an unclassified basis p all participants should refrain from discussing any class of either other information protected from public disclosure. The committee is conducting this virtual hearing with House Resolution 965 and the regulations for the conduct of Remote Committee proceedings. It is being broadcast on the committees website. Like many of you, i would have preferred to hold this hearing in person but because of the threat posed by covid19, it remained serious and widespread. We are proceeding in the best manner we can, remotely in todays case, in order to ensure the safety of our