During a speech at the Brookings Institution in washington, d. C. After he spoke, china policy experts talked about chinas Regional Power. And president xi jing pings leadership. Good morning. My name is bruce jones. Im the Vice President and the director for Foreign Policy here at brookings. It is my pleasure to welcome you here. I see lots of old friends in the audience and several new ones. Its a pleasure to invite you to our event. Im delighted to welcome randy back to brookings. Weve been fortunate to engage him on several aspects of our policy research. 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. Randal schreiber was appointed on jan 8th, 2018, prove lees having served for east asian and Pacific Affairs under which portfolio he covered china, taiwan, hong kong and aus tailia, all the easy stuff. Earlier he held the role of also served as an active duty Nav
The next hour, we will talk with politician and diplomat valery chaly. In the second part of our program, which will start in exactly one hour, there will be a journalist club, Andriy Yanitskyi and Yanina Sokolova will be guests of our studio. However, before we start our big conversation, lets watch a video of an explosive stop of enemy equipment. Bulava subdivision from a separate president ial brigade named after bohdan khmelnytskyi, destroyed the russian dance with the help of fpv. Drone and mine lets see how it was. Friends, we are working live on the espresso tv channel, as well as on our youtube and facebook platforms, for those who are currently watching us live there. Please like our video, subscribe to our pages and take part in our survey. Today we ask you this do you approve of the appointment of a hardworking ambassador to Great Britain . Yes, no, please vote on youtube with the yes or no button. Write your own comment under this video. If youre watching us on tv, pick up
With this publicized initiative of the embassies of africa, which did not end in anything, you remember the competition, where Everyone Wants to go to africa, lets be ambassadors, it did not end in anything, it seems that a year has already passed, that is, more than 20 positions in the world have not been filled, well there are some that should be paid more attention now, and norway is the same, and norway is now making a lot of efforts to help ukraine, there is the issue of the czech republic, but it seems to be closing down there now. Well, there are countries in asia such as the philippines, malaysia, that is, there are, there are places where it is simply very necessary to have its ambassadors right now, well, everyone knows this, but in principle , the impression is that these vacant positions remain for other purposes. Mr. Valery, to finish this conversation, i will ask you, not as a diplomat , but as a politician, why do you think zaluzhny agreed to this proposal . As. Uh, not
That is, it is against all the rules, well, i will tell you, these rules are in the textbooks of firstyear students, i myself taught International Public law, protocol, there in the institute of international relations, it is clearly written there, moreover, i will tell you, if we take even test tasks for diplomats who want to take up new higher positions there, they have about 40, 45 questions on this vienna convention. Well, a strange situation is developing , we ask diplomats who go to positions to answer one thing correctly, and do another, well, this is not a very good story, to break all these rules and all international norms, i would say so , to humiliate their professionalism, thats it thats all, and im more interested in it here, because you know, thats how we have it, we will have people change, some will enter, others will leave, history continues in the rest, the main task is war, victory, but professionalism and compliance with the norms and respect for partners, especial
Good afternoon. Im pete. Daily ceo and publisher of the Naval Institute and i our audience both here in the jack Taylor Centers lockheed auditorium and our remote audience whos joining us online. And so for those who are here, i just ask you to stand for a minute. And lets say the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under god individual liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Special shout out to admiral katcher, whos the acting superintendent and one of our Naval Institute press authors. This is a moment todays event demonstrates what the Naval Institute is all about. Were an open, independent, Nonpartisan Forum that dares to read things, speak and write. The institute its inception 150 years ago. Its coming up the anniversary in just a couple of weeks. Supports our men and women in the sea services and has always championed their viewpoints, their exchange of ideas. The title of toda