Thank you very much for coming. This report, strategy in indopacific. Thanks to the contributors, it has happened. I appreciate your support in the participation today. We with like to thank japan foundation, center for Global Partnership for their support of this. The opinions in the report belong to the authors. Today after i introduce the report and contributors will talk. Now introduction. This is picture i took. The rise of china and its attitude force the United States to address challenge. Vicepresident mike pence spoke at Hudson Institute, very important, and said government approach using political, economic and military tools as well as propaganda to advance its influence and benefit its interest in the United States. Given the United States need to win the competition, cooperation with likeminded countries is key because historically number of Political Partners has been a factor in the geopolitical struggle. For example, in world war i, the winning side comprised 32 countri
Contributors of this report will talk on u. S. Approach to Counter China based on this report. So now introductions. This is picture i took. The rise of china and its attitude towards the world, challenged by chinas ambition. Vice president mike pence spoke at Hudson Institute, and this is very important, and said beijing government approach using Political Economic and military tools as propaganda to advance its interest and benefit its interest in the United States. So given that the United States need to win the competition, cooperation will arise in likeminded countries is key because historically number of Political Partners has been a deciding factor in the geopolitical struggle. For example, the wild, wild west the winning side comprise but the losing side was composed of just four. During the u. S. Soviet cold war, 54 versus 26 eric so these facts indicate that the number of supporters correlate to the likelihood of winning the competition. Therefore, maintaining improving coll
[cheering] thank you for coming. Fortunes above 50 million. You may get that big, pitch in two cents so everyone else has a chance to make it. [cheers and applause] dr. Lara brown, that is a glimpse of the 2020 primary process. A process that attracted more than 20 democrats. Last time around, 17 gop candidates vying for the nomination. You have spent your academic career trying to understand and explain the electoral process. When you try to explain where we are today to people and how this process works, how do you explain it . Dr. Brown the thing you have to start with first is that competitiveness drives a lot of candidates. One of the things that is so interesting, when we really understand why there are so many candidates in the democratic primary field, why there are so many republicans in the 2016 field, it was because the presidency was seen as being up for grabs in both instances. In 2016, it was an open seat. There was disbelief that the there was this belief that the republ
Who need it most. If. Charter communications supports cspan as a Public Service along with these other television providers. Giving you a front row seat to democracy. And we continue the conversation from the Atlanta Council on chinese global influence. Coming up, academics discuss chinas diplomatic efforts across africa, latin america and in asia. This is an welcome back, everyone. So im so glad to welcome everyone to our first panel for this k and what we are going to with this first panel is really kind of lay out some of the broader themes and dynamics around chinas growing attention and strategicl south at this moment where were clearly at an Inflection Point in the global order, look a bit at what are chinas goals how chinas going about achieving those goals and what we think isg the likelihood that china will achieve those goal, what will its success be. Anding we could not have a better group to kick us off here with g this first panel. So let me introduce them very briefly. I
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