Democracy the United States and japan. The Wilson Center and National History center cohosted this discussion. Its about 90 minutes. All right. I think well get started. Its 4 00 on a monday afternoon, which means its time for the washington history seminar. Welcome, everyone, to the Wilson Center. Welcome to this installment of the washington history seminar. Im christian oserman. I have the privilege of cochairing the seminar with professor eric arnesen from George Washington university. Im dlielighted to see so many you here on this beautiful afternoon. We will have cspan taping the event today, so for those welcome to all of those who are viewing us at home. And i suggest you visit our website to learn more about the seminar and upcoming speakers. Both the National History center and the Wilson Center websites have information on this series. The washington history seminar, of course, is, as those of you who are regulars know, a collaborative effort of two organizations, the Wilson
I am christian, i have the privilege of cochairing the seminar with professor eric artisan from George Washington university. I am delighted to see so many of you here. On this beautiful afternoon. We will have cspan taping the event today. So those welcome to all of those who are viewing at home i suggest you visit our website to learn more about the seminar, and upcoming speakers, both the National History center, and the Wilson Center website, they have information on the theories. Washington history seminar of course, for those of you who are regulars are collaborative effort of two organizations the wilson history policy program and the National History center of the american historical associations, directed by professor kennedy who joins us here as well. We are currently in our ninth year, of holding the sessions, they run weekly during the seminar. We would like to tank our sponsors, the Lepage Center for history in the public interest. And George Washington universitys history
A passport after the kingdom received a series of decrees the changes are part of sweeping reforms led by crown Prince Mohammed bin sultan man its unclear when the order will take effect that saudi arabia has long Face International criticism over the treatment of women as 2nd class citizens but despite these reforms women in saudi arabia still face many restrictions they continue to be considered legal minors and will still be under the authority of their male relatives in other areas of life the system makes it virtually impossible for victims of sexual abuse or Domestic Violence to follow all reports as women would still need to be accompanied by a male and last year the kingdom stepped up its crackdown of womens rights activists many of them are still in prison human Rights Groups have reported that some were tortured. Well if its an International Human rights lawyer he says saudi arabia lets follow your tree thats human rights record in order to be taken seriously. Lets bring a tr
Over concerns of chinese growth. Onbers out of China Industrial profits. Lets look at what has been going on with them. A little recovery. We got above the dotted line, breakeven, if you will. For april. E 1. 1 . E we got up this informs us about nominal gdp and that would suggest we are on a slight uptick. The bottom of this graph is the ppi. Years of negative prices. We have been positive and remain positive as well. Against this backdrop of where companies do have pricing power, industrial profits ticking higher. Against thehat background of the g20. We have a date for that. President trump stepping up rhetoric against china as he prepares for the crucial meeting in japan. Stephen engle is on the ground for us for that meeting. We have a date for the date. Do. Hen we saturday, just before lunch, 11 30 a. M. Saturday is when president xi jinping and trump will meet. President has a full schedule tomorrow. He will be meeting Scott Morrison of australia for dinner and a whole wave of m
Hello im Barbara Sarah this is al jazeera live from london also coming up on the Program Warnings the u. S. Decision to slash its aid for palestinians risks regional stability ethiopia releases the first group of prisoners the taint during protests two years ago and being an Opposition Leader the art of diplomacy a day before Emmanuelle Mccraw meets to resume a francis says it will lead to britain to buy you a tapestry and archaeologists in mexico discover whats believed to be the largest flooded cave in the world. Hello thank you for joining us marching under one flag and playing together in a joint womens Ice Hockey Team north and south korea have announced the Historic Partnership for this years. Winter olympics delegates from both countries announced of the situation after a third round of talks in the border village on. The north will also send the two hundred thirty member strong Cheerleading Team south koreas president has voiced his support for bringing the ice hockey players t