Good afternoon i hope everybody had a good thanksgiving break. Welcome back to washington, welcome to brookings im bruce jones the director of the policy program at brookings and its my pleasure to welcome you to our event for east Asian Pacific affairs. David stillwell is appointed as assistant secretary of state by President Trump of the 20th of june he served in the air force for 35 years beginning as a Korean League west in 1980 and retiring in 2015 as a Brigadier General he was the asia adviser to the chairman of the joint death of staff from 21 to 2013 you also recently served as the director of the u. S. Focus group. He was also an adjunct fellow thank you to your service to this country. As you can see from his background the david has been at the forefront of managing the policy questions the shape the u. S. And china friendship. Working tirelessly behind the scenes to build policy with china is also then keeping our wider focus on the region as a whole. Where we have a huge n
Good afternoon i hope everybody had a good thanksgiving break. Welcome back to washington, welcome to brookings im bruce jones the director of the policy program at brookings and its my pleasure to welcome you to our event for east Asian Pacific affairs. David stillwell is appointed as assistant secretary of state by President Trump of the 20th of june he served in the air force for 35 years beginning as a Korean League west in 1980 and retiring in 2015 as a Brigadier General he was the asia adviser to the chairman of the joint death of staff from 21 to 2013 you also recently served as the director of the u. S. Focus group. He was also an adjunct fellow thank you to your service to this country. As you can see from his background the david has been at the forefront of managing the policy questions the shape the u. S. And china friendship. Working tirelessly behind the scenes to build policy with china is also then keeping our wider focus on the region as a whole. Where we have a huge n
Brookings. David was appointed assistant secretary of state by donald trump. He previously served in the air force for 35 years, beginning as a linguist in 1980, retiring as a brigadier general. He was the advisor to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and served as the defensive attache in beijing. He recently served as the director of the China Strategic Focus Group in hawaii from 2017 to 2019, where he was an abjects adjunct senior fellow. David, thank you for your service to our country and the important work you are doing now. As you can see from his background, he has been at the forefront of managing policy questions that shape the future of these relationships and has been working tirelessly behind the scenes to build policy to china and is preoccupied with keeping our wider focus on the region as a whole, where we have a huge number of relationships, partners, allies, and interests that go beyond simply the question of china. Assistant secretary stillwell and i were here
Now i think if people have been im ben bland in london. Also in the programme asking for the right to self determination, a brexit war of words, now on bbc news, its hardtalk. That framework is the only framework britains ex finance minister says Stephen Sackur interviews people will be ready to listen to. The Prime Ministers advisers the president of the jammu are deliberately wrecking chances and kashmir peoples they will not be ready to listen of a deal with the eu. Movement shah faesal. To anything within the framework and a new report says argentine since recording this interview of the constitution. Footballer Emiliano Sala yesterday there are reports today that mr shah has been detained by the authorities in delhi and prevented from leaving the country. So which is it for you, mr faesal, are you going to be stooge or separatist . Welcome to hardtalk, i think its too im Stephen Sackur. When the Indian Government revoked the special autonomous status ofJammu And Kashmir, it knew o
When the open comes to royal troon in the summer, theyll have the longest hole in the tournaments history very long. A lot of cloud today with a few showers around but some heavy, potentially thundery rain arrives overnight in the far south. Ill have the full details in the forecast coming up shortly. Just highlighting some of the interviews that weve got lined up for you. Were going to be talking to the minister for women and equalities. Thats kerry Kemi Badenoch, who will be discussing the importance of womens only spaces. What time she on at just before 9 00. Just before 9 00. If you can hang around for that. And as always, wed love to hear from you throughout the course of the program. Get in touch via our website. It is gbnews. Com forward slash your say top story on this wednesday morning, former detective chief superintendent of the met kevin hurley has called for all officers to be armed. Yes, this comes after another high profile incident in london where a man was tasered , th