I think we will get started here. Thank you so much for joining us at the heritage foundation. I was told we dont necessarily have to talk about silencing cell phones, but i am going to say that anyway. We usually have a robust online audience and we want to minimize distractions. Thank you for joining us. We are going to talk about a new report on rebuilding the army. Its actually the third paper out, the first talked about how to think about the future, and we released one in the marine corps. This is a major paper on the army, and how to think about its relationship with National Security strategy and how the world is changing, and some recommendations for the path of the army needs to go down with a look out to a 30 year timeframe. We will follow up with a paper on the air force which is coming up next month, wrapping up by the end of the year with a paper on the navy so we have all four Services Covered and thinking about preparations for the future. These papers are meant to give
Programs pop. Global leaders, city, delight and united airlines, corporate partners, we would also like to thank our coorganizer, the young china watchers. It is a great flour be working with them for tonights program. Now it is my pleasure to welcome miss vicki lai, the cofounder and head of the new york chapter of young china watcher ford her brief remarks. [applause] good evening, everyone. Im vic year and lai and im the head of the young china watch america new york. Im behalf of the young chinaer watchers in new York Leadership Team who is in front, we would like to thank the Japan Society for this amazing opportunity to host this evening together. And thank you all for joining us. We have a fantastic evening for you. Our Organization Young china watchers is a Dynamic Group of china focuses young professionals. Through regular roundtables and talks with senior figures in the china academic policy and business communities, we provide a chance for engaged individuals to interact and
[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2018] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] aseric watson joining us Congress Returns from its summer recess facing a september 30 government funding deadline. The House Majority leader steny hoyer in a letter to his colleagues announcing plans to take up a continuing resolution through the week of september 16. Do you see any issues with congress not being able to fund the federal government this year . I am not worried about the governor as a government shutdown. I am a little bit worried about a shutdown in december or beyond. Reprising the 35 day shutdown we saw. It will probably pass easily. They may be an intent to sent pass the defense bill. Theres interest to get that out of the way and democrats are telling me they dont want to let that go and be left with a that the domestic spending world would not get addressed. Probably into
The rise of five new powers, and certain western values, russia, china, turkey, iran and radical groups. Good evening everybody and welcome. I am jesse, one of the rabbis here. By show of hands, how many of you is this your first time here . Welcome. For those of you who are new lets give you a bit of her history. The building open at the synagogue in 1908 in about 50 years later it became the home to the memorial ame church in a 2002 it was almost sold to someone who wanted to turn it into a nightclub. It was saved within 24 hours in a building in search of a mission. Todays it is a center for arts and culture in entertainment and ideas in a synagogue that reimagines jewish life and religion and community in the 21st century. If you want to explore the past programs you can check out our podcast on itunes which features a conversation with a recent guest including howard schulte, doran door screens goodwin. And im delighted to welcome tonights guest, he is a philosopher of public inte
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