Happened very quickly in a matter of day kids and to some extent they were far more dramatic in terms of changing peoples lifestyles and their values i agree technology is advancing very quickly but so is our adaptation to it arent we overdramatizing the fact of the digitalisation the internet and other phenomena brought on by the 4th Industrial Revolution well well we dont really know i mean its a bit like things like demographics where youve got rapidly aging societies were not entirely sure whats going to happen because its never happened before and yes people point to the industrial level revolution saying its all happened before but equally in the context of losing jobs and other jobs being created but it does seem slightly different this time i mean its more than just ways of making things ways of living its a bit broader than that potentially this time and i think we need to be quite careful about things and the thing im very disappointed at the moment is possibly get more into
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Regional power and president xi jinpings leadership. Good morning. My name is bruce jones. Im the Vice President and the director for Foreign Policy here at brookington. Its my pleasure to welcome you this morning. I see lots of old friends in the audience and several new ones and its a pleasure to invite you to our event with the assistant secretary of defense for endopacific affairs, randall shriver. Weve been fortunate to engage him on several aspects of policy research over the past decade, and while hes been serving in the Administration Since 2017, and randy, thank you for your service to our country and the Important Role you play in this administration. Randall shriver was appointed as assistant secretary of defense by President Donald Trump on january 8th, 2018. Previously having served as Deputy Assistant secretary for east asian and pacific affairs, under which portfolio he covered china, tie won, hong kong and australia, all the easy stuff. Earlier he held the role of chief
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