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Thank you very much for coming. This report, strategy in indopacific. Thanks to the contributors, it has happened. I appreciate your support in the participation today. We with like to thank japan foundation, center for Global Partnership for their support of this. The opinions in the report belong to the authors. Today after i introduce the report and contributors will talk. Now introduction. This is picture i took. The rise of china and its attitude force the United States to address challenge. Vicepresident mike pence spoke at Hudson Institute, very important, and said government approach using political, economic and military tools as well as propaganda to advance its influence and benefit its interest in the United States. Given the United States need to win the competition, cooperation with likeminded countries is key because historically number of Political Partners has been a factor in the geopolitical struggle. For example, in world war i, the winning side comprised 32 countri
Outside the Army Headquarters have been protesting for months to transfer power to a civilian led government when the site was stormed the internet was blocked blocking out social media the main platform for the protest movement for now the videos a few and far between but some are slipping through the net showing protests are continuing but while people in sudan have been unable to share their videos social media users from around the globe assuring their solidarity by changing their profile pictures to all of the memory of one of the victims whose favorite color was blue. The manly aljazeera. Heres whats coming up for you on this news hour philippines president demanding answers as to why several fishermen were left stranded at sea when a chinese vessel rammed their boat and fled. The battle for land were looking at the conflict between herders and farmers in northwestern nigeria and in sport the host nation makes a winning start at the cup but america is here with both of them later
Because she has sided with the police whom they accuse of using Excessive Force to disperse crowds they have called for even more people to protest on sunday. Than will be hoping the suspension of the controversial bill will reduce the level of anger and numbers of protesters we were dot the most sincere and humble attitude will just sap criticisms and make improvements so that we can continue to connect with the people of hong kong but many here believe kerry lam is only backing down now because shes afraid of more violence and they say if a 1000000 people in the streets cant change her mind they have little faith in the consultation process she is now promising rob mcbride al jazeera hong kong. And out here scott hyde looks back at previous protests in hong kong and why many say these ones are different. In 1997 when hong kong was handed over from british control to china agreements were made certain liberties were to stay until 2047 like freedom of speech and an independent judiciar
Whats going on in real time as we speak right now across the border from yemen into saudi arabia. Well you know the situation in yemen has its own internal sources of of conflict and tension you know if you run hypothetically wouldnt exist there would still be a problem within yemen with respect to the who these there demands for recognition representation and distribution of resources so you know all of these you know problems that were talking about you know they do as i said have various degrees of iranian involvement but the narrative of the pump alun in saudi arabia is that its all about iran and you know saudi arabia the emirates and more broadly israel have no role to play in regional destabilization i think thats simply you know not accurate ok specifically on whats happening with shipping in the gulf of oman straits of hormuz area if the u. N. Secretary general mistook a terrorist gets the report that he wants that will not because it cant by definition show that that will not