Programs pop. Global leaders, city, delight and united airlines, corporate partners, we would also like to thank our coorganizer, the young china watchers. It is a great flour be working with them for tonights program. Now it is my pleasure to welcome miss vicki lai, the cofounder and head of the new york chapter of young china watcher ford her brief remarks. [applause] good evening, everyone. Im vic year and lai and im the head of the young china watch america new york. Im behalf of the young chinaer watchers in new York Leadership Team who is in front, we would like to thank the Japan Society for this amazing opportunity to host this evening together. And thank you all for joining us. We have a fantastic evening for you. Our Organization Young china watchers is a Dynamic Group of china focuses young professionals. Through regular roundtables and talks with senior figures in the china academic policy and business communities, we provide a chance for engaged individuals to interact and
Spread and use of deadly chemical weapons. There can be no dispute that syria used banned chemical weapons, violated its obligations under the chemical weapons convention, and ignored the urging of the u. N. Security council. Charlie is the first direct American Assault against the assad regime. It is a move away from his earlier position. Vladimir putin called it a significant blow to the russianamerican relationship. Tom friedman wrote about the challenges in his New York Times columnork earlier this week. Your bestseller has been there for 16 weeks. This president in the midst of a lot of Foreign Policy this week, including a crucial meeting on thursday night, orders and airstrike against an air force base. What do you see as the repercussions of this . I think about this in three buckets. The first is i think it was important for the United States to use its power to send a signal that people use poison gas. We are talking the 100th anniversary of world war i. It does not mean we c
At the United States Naval Academy in annapolis, and served as senior fellow at the council on Foreign Relations in new york. A contributor to such publications as the new york times, the washington post, wall , newsweek,nal, time the london observer. Professor mandelbaum served for 23 years as the associate director of the Aspen Institute congressional project on American Relations with the former communist world. He serves on the board of advisors also the Washington Institute for near east Foreign Policy near east policy. A washingtonbased organization sponsoring research and public discussion on american policy towards the middle east. Born in 1946, professor mandelbaum is a graduate of yale college. He earned his masters degree at Kings College cambridge university, and his doctorate at harvard university. Professor mandelbaum is the or coauthor of numerous articles and essays, and 15 books, the nuclear question, the United States and 1976,r weapons 1946 to and the Nuclear Revolut
Tom it comes from meeting people for breakfast in washington, d. C. Every once in a while, somebody will come late. They would say i am really sorry. One day about three years ago, i spontaneously said to my friend peter, i said to him, thank you for being late. Because you were late, i have been eavesdropping on their conversations. I have been peoplewatching the lobby. Most importantly, i just connected ideas i have been struggling with for a month. People started to get into it. What they understood, i was giving them to slow down and rethink and reflect. My favorite quote in the opening chapter comes from my friend. He says, when you press the pause button on a computer, it stops. But when you press because you on a human being, it starts. It reflects, rethinks, r eimagines. Boy, do we need to do a lot of that. Charlie what stage of acceleration . Tom the book begins with me explaining to my parking garage attendant how to write a column. The first chapter is really about how to wr
Tom it comes from meeting people for breakfast in washington, d. C. Every once in a while, somebody will come late. They would say i am really sorry. One day about three years ago, i spontaneously said to my friend peter, i said to him, thank you for being late. Because you were late, i have been eavesdropping on their conversations. I have been peoplewatching the lobby. Most importantly, i just connected ideas i have been struggling with for a month. People started to get into it. What they understood, i was giving them to slow down and rethink and reflect. My favorite quote in the opening chapter comes from my friend. He says, when you press the pause button on a computer, it stops. But when you press because you on a human being, it starts. It reflects, rethinks, r eimagines. Boy, do we need to do a lot of that. Charlie what stage of acceleration . Tom the book begins with me explaining to my parking garage attendant how to write a column. The first chapter is really about how to wr