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Our final panel today will examine how China Growing military presence and influence in south or Southeast Asia and africa Furthers Development of expeditionary abilities. We will start with greg pulley, he is the rector of Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative and at the center of Strategic International studies. He oversees research on u. S. Foreign policy in the asiapacific with a particular focus on the maritime domain and the countries of Southeast Asia. He is the author of the South China Seas and focus clarifying the limits of maritime dispute. Coauthor of multiple other works. He will focus on chinas activities in south, Southeast Asia. Next we hear from [inaudible], am i pronouncing it [inaudible] Research Associated at the African Center for strategic studies at the National Defense university. He is an expert on china africa relationships partnerships between the africa and east asia and the African Security issues. His forthcoming book, manuscript examines the influence of
On january 8th, 2018. For those of you who dont know anything about jamestown, we are a Nonprofit Foundation in washington that deals and specializes in eurasia with terrorism and deal a lot with china. And we appreciate the people, this program or discussion today is going to be broadcast on cspan. Were very excited about getting the visibility throughout the United States and the critical importance of this speech is that randall schrivers speech today, comments are on the record. He appeared last year at the Jamestown Foundation China Defense and security conference. His comments were off the record at the time. So this year we keep progressing in how were advancing with secretary schriver and were trying to get more attention to this issue. But let me first of all say that a couple words about randy. He is has long been known in the China Community as a robust voice on china, leading strategic thinker on china. In 2008 he cofounded the project 2049 with mark stokes. Hes been very a
Thank you. Im kathleen hicks. I direct the National Security program here. Our ceo wanted to be here this morning to welcome the commandant, but hes been under the weather, so i get to both moderate the conversation and also do that. Before i begin, i just want to remind everyone that this is the fourth of our Maritime Security dialogue series of 2019. Our Maritime Security dialogue is cohosted between csis and our partners at the u. S. Naval institute. And our goal is to highlight Current Issues and future challenges facing the navy, marine corps and coast guard. I want to thank our sponsor, Huntington Ingalls industries who has made this possible. Today were talking with admiral karl schultz, a commandant of the marine corps. And i want to get right into it. We were lucky enough to have you join us in august of 2018. Pete daily was the moderator for that session and here we are a yearplus beyond that, a few months beyond that when you began which was roughly may 2018. I would love to