Influence, so last thursday we held a conversation with former australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull that look at chinese influence in australia. Part of the report examined japan and australia and chinese influence works there. Todays conversation is to look at how russian influence works in the United Kingdom. As part of a broader work we also look at germany. The reason Malcolm Turnbull was so important is because we used his framing of influence activities. We looked at covert, coercive and corrupting influence factors. Many reports have examined the supply of influence activities, but very few look at the demandside, how democracies use and accept these influence activities. So our report focused much more on the demand come have democratic governments and ci activities. This report was made possible by the state Department Global Engagement Center to the Information Access fund, and administered by the were grateful of course for the support but these are the authors and not
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Deviance tour ann arbor addition its my honor to be here this evening with some wonderful cohost before we began and get into official introductions i would be remiss if i did not acknowledge the pain our nations feeling amidst the lost of black lives at the hands of enforcement there may be black folks watching and your life matters. To my predominately white fans, we must do better. I have posted a link in our crowd cast of scription for those looking to make a difference. In the meantime, please join me in a moment of silence to honor the lives of breonna taylor, george floyd, ahmaud are buried, and too many others. Thank you. And now im excited to introduce joe by saint gregory okay joe from ann arbor pride. I think i know it, you can talk a little bit about the great work they do. Thank you eric i really appreciate it hi everyone i am the director of an over pride also sit on the board of the Community Center in ann arbor. We are so thrilled to be cosponsoring this and we are cont