A diverse continent expands all the way from russia as far as where we are right now, down to the giants of india and china, across the islands nations of the pacific and indian ocean and all the way to the golf, those, this is in the mountains diversity. I wonder if there is anything in common among all those asian lands. Of course, this is perhaps the beauty of asia, and perhaps this is the reason why we need to have this bottom this far. And it is like a platform for Asian Countries to discuss or deal with issues in asia, so that we can have our common understanding this, this uh uh, the reason why we need this platform you talk about, ill come and, you know, mean a test or something yes, of course. So we have our common understanding. And of course the political will to work to as a and, and at the initiative of the kingdom of thailand. In 2002, this forum was established. Mm hm. Now it was the established thanks to the talent initiative, but its now headquarters in kuwait on yes,
Sun, asia as no one lands, in fact, its the biggest, the most dispersed of all continents, with many lands wanting to shine and grow. Is it possible to rise unless rise hall to discuss it . Im now joined by doctor porn. Try leave us on the secretary general of the Asian Corporation dialogue doctor born child. Its great to talk to thank you very much for your time. Thank you very much for giving me an opportunity to say a few words about the a cd. Now your organization, the, a city was created some 20 years ago with a goal of facilitating communication on the corporation across the whole of asia. And the task seems pretty straightforward with one we look down, it must be pretty challenging because asia is such a diverse continent. It spends all the way from brush as far as where we are right now, down to the giants of india in china, across the islands. Nations of the pacific and indian ocean and all the way to the gulf, those, this is in the mountains diversity. I wonder if there is an
And we will be talking politics. Will you be doing it during this thanksgiving holiday . All coming up on washington journal. You can send us a tweet. Good morning. We begin with afghanistan. American troops on the ground in what has become americas longest war. Joining us live is brig. Gen. William graham. Thank you for being with us on this holiday. Thanks for having us. Happy thanksgiving to you and all your viewers. Host he is joining us via skype. So there is a little bit of a delay. Lets begin with what is americas longest war. From your standpoint what are some of the Biggest Challenges on the ground . Guest in just a minute and we will get that out of the way. This is my second tour in afghanistan and what i will noisywith you as another helicopter flies past is that there is optimism here with the Afghan People. The new u. S. Policy and its our nato allies is playing well with afghanistan. There is true optimism here. By someed here today amazing american patriots. You guys ha
Increased focus on exercises that we have seen over the recent weeks and months as an effort to try to boost the effect of deterrent along with the diplomatic overtures that secretary of state tillerson has undertaken. Afghanistan, the same goal but different strategies under president s bush, obama and trump. As the current strategy working from your standpoint . Guest we have 4000 plus troops and i think we will see if that many surge many more were added in the obama administration. We will see that many surge has the desired effect. There is an effort to double the Afghan Special Operations Forces which i have observed over many and also to double or triple their air capacity and thats a very difficult thing, the air capacity. Because you have to have englishspeaking pilots. All of this is really longterm andlopmental efforts happening at the same time to the taliban of course has madeased its attacks and some major gains around the countryside. It is fair with all of this discussi
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