I will be the moderator. Am Liselotte Odgaard i put together this panel which i think is on a key issue in d. C. And globally indeed. It is talked about a lot although there are not that many panels about the topic around town. I look forward to this discussion. I mentioned to come up for the past couple of years, there has been a lot of debate about Multilateral Institutions and on chinas influence and how that is quickly growing and leading to changes in the fundamental rules of the since to two nations and also giving rise to alternatives to the old ones. And one question that arises the is does that make institutions that we already have counterproductive to preserving a liberal world order when authoritarian states rise within the institutions . And partly take over responsibility for them . Another key issue is the one on fragile states. They seem to be continuously bogged down in poverty, lack of education, etc. Although we have spent decades on development aid, peacekeeping, et
From the Hudson Institute, this is an hour and a half. Good day and welcome to the Hudson Institute and thank you for showing up for this panel on Multilateral Institutions. Indispensable or irrelevant to global peace and prosperity. I will be the moderator. Am Liselotte Odgaard i put together this panel which i think is on a key issue in d. C. And globally indeed. It is talked about a lot although there are not that many panels about the topic around town. I look forward to this discussion. I mentioned to come up for the past couple of years, there has been a lot of debate about Multilateral Institutions and on chinas influence and how that is quickly growing and leading to changes in the fundamental rules of the since to two nations and also giving rise to alternatives to the old ones. And one question that arises the is does that make institutions that we already have counterproductive to preserving a liberal world order when authoritarian states rise within the institutions . And p
Now imagine or time they were going underground as e. U. Chief donald tusk and your good younger pack up and leave as their terms expire after a conference of the European Parliament in brussels condemns the trumpet ministration over its pursuit of wiki leaks is julian a songe and demands his freedom from a british prism coming up on the show will there be blood on the hands of the United Kingdom with a march of nato nation media continuing to downplay the warnings of 60 doctors and wiki leaks Julian Assange could die in a u. K. Prison we speak to the United Nations kneels meltzer who alleges british contempt of International Norms of justice and we speak to go along the ecuadorian foreign minister who helped grant asylum just by them it is embassy in london well joining me now is the un special rapporteur on torture and other cruel inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment niels melts special rapporteur thanks so much for going on going underground this time in the studio just befo
A deal is not reach soon so christine lets talk about this a little bit so 1st on the story with the hong kong bill obviously the bill on some levels it does affect the u. S. Trying to trade talks but it seems like its more of slowing things down because it kind of sets back china in their expectations right exactly and right now its escalating into a new head and so this kind of like oh you wanted us to roll back tariffs well were not going to do that so look over here its another diversion tactic were going to focus on home call instead so this is just the u. S. And another way of exerting maximum pressure theyre back to their all tactics of exerting maximum pressure again in order to try to get a response from china because as we said last week from if you remember china was very silent about this entire thing there was pessimism they didnt think base one would even go through this or meanwhile on the u. S. Side they were optimistic markets rally everyone saying oh phase one is almo
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