There. Id like to first introduce our panelists including myself. Doctor Michael Pillsbury is one of the foremost china experts in the world. Hes currently senior fellow and director of the chinese strategy at the hudson institution. Its an incentive rate hes distinguished defense and policy advisor highranking official in numerous books and reports on china. I know, i can tell you definitively that mike has really changed the u. S. Militarys thinking. Back a number of years ago he sent to china to collect Chinese Military writings. He was the First American official who revealed that what the chinese were telling themselves militarily behind the scenes was quite different than what they were saying in public about how they wanted to be friends with the world. And it really had a tremendous impact on understanding the militarys review with peoples republic of china. His book is a Landmark Book to replace america as a superpower. This book is really a fascinating look. Its probably one
Leadership with the Atlantic Council. He compared and contrasted the current president s approach to Foreign Policy to that of what joe biden would do in the white house. This is about 45 minutes. We are live from samsung studios in washington, d. C. Thank you for getting up early in his joining us on the west coast of california. Today we are going to focus on the priorities in the Biden Administration. Last night joe biden accepted the nomination for the Democratic Partys nomination for presidency of the United States. I can think of no better guess than Jake Sullivan to join us today, the day after the convention concludes to talk about major priorities of the next four years of a potential Biden Administration. Jake let me welcome you to our screen. We are delighted to have you with us this morning. Thank you for being here. Thanks for having me. The rest of our guests are familiar with Jake Sullivan but he served in the Obama Administration the National Security adviser to then Vi
Woke up this morning to learn of the news and many are shocked and horrified including myself and i think this is sent out a very very negative message and of course it must have a Chilling Effect on people who want to speak out and particularly on the news media so this is a very very Disturbing Development although maybe maybe not unexpected but i and people say that hong kong no longer has the rule of law so i hope that jimmy lie and those of the people who have been a rest will be able to have their rights protected and of course if the authorities have evidence i hope they will come out with it because such allegations have been made for a long time and up to now they have to do is no evidence i think that we have seen quite oh increasing amount of selfcensorship amongst the news media some local media even say that that maybe there are some current politicians that they may not or should not interview and they are stories they should not write and also the edge of made telling th
Here. Is really a celebration of a brilliant, timely new book and a time for us to have a really important discussion about what is going on in the critical region of the world. And of course the start of todays performance is the author of that great new book, scholar of contemporary asia he is distinguished fellow here at hoover pretties also a great friend, mishas really wonderful for us to be with you and sold by this tremendously book. The book is asias new geopolitics. The book is an important book at an important time about the reshaping that is going on across the indo pacific region. Michael is also the author of another tremendous book right behind here, called the end of the age of the century. Michael is one of the most prolific analysts on what is going on the region. If youve not already done it, set up a google alert for whenever michaels essays are published, you get them right away. So also the hopes of a wonderful podcast he does with sean view on the pacific century.
Jake let me welcome you to our screen. We are delighted to have you with us this morning. Thank you for being here. Thanks for having me. The rest of our guests are familiar with Jake Sullivan but he served in the Obama Administration the National Security adviser to then Vice President joe biden are the also served as deputy chief of staff and director of policy planning for secretary of state Hillary Clinton and brings his expertise in policy to the record of having been on the president presents a campaign trail last time and this time with the biden campaign. He began his career with Amy Klobuchar and we are really divided to have them here for conversation. What is it going to look like in january 2021 when the new president takes potentially the next president comes into office with an extraordinary set of challenges and circumstances, a pandemic, and economic crisis, social justice and Antiracist Movement here, the challenging of American Values and interests abroad. This is aga