A 3rd of the entire country is now submerged by monsoon flooding and u. S. Attorney general william barr defends the trumpet ministrations response to recent anti racism protests. And army wellings with the sport is for all coronavirus places place the Major League Baseball season in full of the doubt and following 280 and polish jails elite squad as his team in the test series against west indies. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has reacted with outrage after the u. K. And germany warned of their citizens to think twice before travelling to spain in the coming weeks because of an increase in coronavirus cases their tourism accounts for a little over 12 percent of spains g. D. P. And is seen as crucial to rebuilding its economy after months of lock down restrictions but the u. K. Is concerned europe is entering a 2nd wave in the pandemic its warned citizens against told by the essential travel to spain and imposed a 2 week quarantine on their return a move which could cost spains
A huge chinese fishing fleet is found just off the Galapagos Islands. The battle to contain the corona virus pandemic is putting pressure on nations worldwide as they seek to find a balance between Public Health on the one hand and saving the economy is a resurgence of the virus in spain is challenging European Solidarity germany is warning its citizens against travel to parts of spain and the u. K. Has already imposed a 2 week quarantine on anyone returning from there a move the Spanish Government calls disproportionate. Some of the we are at this moment talking to the british authorities to try to make them reconsider a measure that in al view is unsuitable particularly if we keep the epidemiological data of the spanish territory and in particular certain tourist destinations like for example the canary in the bay lyric island. But the villains here and dilutes in regions which i insist have a total accumulated level of virus that is lower than whats being registered in the u. K. In
And i ended up writing a column about it. It began a conversation with chris that was part of his effort to develop this book and the arguments in it. Want to ask chris to take us all on a journey he has been on. He has shared some with me over the years. The book starts with a really chilling account of what would happen in the first hours and days of a war with china. Maybe that is a good place to people whyaining to we have a problem when it comes to technology. Chris thank you, david. I appreciate your friendship and guidance throughout this whole process. It has been invaluable. With the timens is spent on the Senate Armed Services committee, the better part of a decade supporting the committee and senator mccain, looking closely at the u. S. Military, how we were investing money and werent investing money and ultimately, how we match up against emerging great power competitors, first and foremost china. The reason i wrote the book was a concern i had then add have now that we are
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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 ask you to reflect a bit on where you feel the coast guard is really making progress on the key issues youre facing and where you feel like you still have significant hurdles you want to ta