Noticed, but judging by the turnout perhaps you did. Outset, i wanted to say a couple words about the election in taiwan on saturday, just a couple, and then turned over turn it over to our Panel Speakers to offer insight. First, i think that the election says more about taiwan then it says about anything else. That only highlight because i think we all are immediately moving to what it means for china. For all practical purposes, taiwan is not a part of china. Why do we move immediately to talk about what this means for china . What it means most is that taiwan values the same things the rest of the free world values. It has conducted its seventh residential election president ial election. It is getting to be such a normal thing that it barely even merits congratulations anymore. We have an election every four years, every two years. The world does not congratulate us on having made this achievement. It has become commonplace in taiwan. It has become commonplace because they value th
A round table on President Donald Trump Meat Industry executives Health Advocates push for a ban on flavored cigarettes. So were looking at south america in this news hour with protests in several countries that have crippled major cities and brought many of them to a standstill 1st of all chilly the protests which began last month when students in santiago started demonstrating against a subway fare increase since then though its widened out its grown with demands for political and Economic Reforms then there is colombia a proposal to change the minimum wage and to introduce possible pension and tax reforms as led to a strike and a huge rally or number of rallies in bogota and in bolivia as well protests was sparked by a disputed president ial election former president evo morales denied any electoral fraud but he eventually resigned under pressure from the military and fled to mexico but his supporters kept protesting and calling for his return so lets start with the protests which r
And its my pleasure to welcome you to this event today featuring general john raymond whose command of u. S. Space command, and command of air force Space Command in colorado. We are lucky to have him join us for a public conversation with todd harrison, director of airspace security project here at csis and general raymond is going to speak first and then they will have moderated conversation following by audience q a. There are very few things that are considered bipartisan nature in washington but concern over space and space threats are one of those and so i hope you will join me in welcoming general raymond. Thank you. Greatly appreciate the invitation and more importantly thanks for your leadership and wise counsel. I always enjoy coming to csis and had to apologize to the csis team because i always get more out of these engagements that idea. A great, id hope will get to that, have a really good conversation and are some things i could take away and continued to work on. I will
On cspan2. We expect it to start shortly. And hicks. I direct the International Security program here at csis and its my pleasure to welcome you to this event today featuring general john raymond whose command of u. S. Space command, and command of air force Space Command in colorado. We are lucky to have him join us for a public conversation with todd harrison, director of airspace security project here at csis and general raymond is going to speak first and then they will have moderated conversation following by audience q a. There are very few things that are considered bipartisan nature in washington but concern over space and space threats are one of those and so i hope you will join me in welcoming general raymond. Thank you. Greatly appreciate the invitation and more importantly thanks for your leadership and wise counsel. I always enjoy coming to csis and had to apologize to the csis team because i always get more out of these engagements that idea. A great, id hope will get to
Here at csis and its my pleasure to welcome you to this event today featuring general john raymond whose command of u. S. Space command, and command of air force Space Command in colorado. We are lucky to have him join us for a public conversation with todd harrison, director of airspace security project here at csis and general raymond is going to speak first and then they will have moderated conversation following by audience q a. There are very few things that can be considered bipartisan in nature in washington. Space and space threats are one of those and so i hope you will join me in welcoming general raymond. [applause] gen. Raymond thank you. I greatly appreciate the invitation and more importantly thanks for your leadership and wise counsel. I always enjoy coming to csis and had to apologize to the cas csis team because i always get more out of these engagement them i give. I hope we get to that, and have really good conversations and things i could take away and continue to w