Jake let me welcome you to our screen. We are delighted to have you with us this morning. Thank you for being here. Thanks for having me. The rest of our guests are familiar with Jake Sullivan but he served in the Obama Administration the National Security adviser to then Vice President joe biden are the also served as deputy chief of staff and director of policy planning for secretary of state Hillary Clinton and brings his expertise in policy to the record of having been on the president presents a campaign trail last time and this time with the biden campaign. He began his career with Amy Klobuchar and we are really divided to have them here for conversation. What is it going to look like in january 2021 when the new president takes potentially the next president comes into office with an extraordinary set of challenges and circumstances, a pandemic, and economic crisis, social justice and Antiracist Movement here, the challenging of American Values and interests abroad. This is aga
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
in the centre of pyongyang. the two leaders signed what the russian president called a breakthrough agreement. so what does that mean for global security? good evening. the scottish national party has launched its election manifesto in edinburgh today, putting independence and the nhs at the forefront of their campaign. the first ministerjohn swinney said he would push for a second independence referendum, if his party won a majority of seats in scotland at this election. he claimed that future independence would allow scotland to re join the european union. among other pledges, a commitment to end the two child benefit cap and to abolish the house of lords. here s our scotland editor, james cook. applause. the snp leader, john swinney, promised independence would be front and centre of this manifesto, and it is. at the very heart of our beliefs is the principal that decisions is the principle that decisions about scotland should be made by the people who live in scotland. no
secretary of state was the 1st to speak and he cited very specific concerns the u.s. has about showing or the chinese side responded with the senior politburo member yang jiechi and he said this wasn t diplomatic protocol what the u.s. had just said and he then cited his own concerns about the u.s. saying the u.s. chooses its own type of democracy china has its own democracy he cited us a regime change in the middle east and then he talked about human rights here in the u.s. . china s 1st trial of the 2 canadians charged with espionage has ended with no verdict this man michael spot or appeared in court in the southeastern city of dun dong on friday canada was denied access to the proceedings for and former diplomat michael called reg were arrested 2 years ago in a move widely seen as retaliation for canada s detention of man one saw an executive from the chinese telecom giant while way tanzania has its 1st female president. has just been sworn in after the death of john mich
think it s going to be very very strong. president biden says the f.b.i. and the department of justice are involved in the investigation. castro al-jazeera washington. the top stories on al jazeera this hour tanzania s president john mcafee has died aged 61 africa s most prominent coronavirus skeptic hadn t been seen in public since february and there was speculation about his health the government says he died from heart failure president assad announced his death in a televised address. where citizens today on this date march 17th 2021 it s 6 in the evening we lost our leader president of the republic of tanzania the honorable dr john pandey jase of make you feel a part of this life from heart complications in hospital in dar es salaam the headline structure prime minister margaret a has claimed victory in parliamentary elections exit polls put his conservative party on course to become the largest in the netherlands lower house this has been europe s 1st major election sin