The Ohio State University and senior fellow at Cato Institute. Finally, Jackie Schneider at stanford university. Thank you very much for the introduction. I am grateful for events hosted back in the before days. I was able to meet with colleagues and talk about ideas that make their way into this book eventually. Im grateful to be on our panel like this, i think i cited most, if not all of you in this book. It is my privilege to share this with you. This book comes out of my personal experiences in uniform in the u. S. Navy so i thought i would start with this. The first is back in 1999, my first job in the navy, i was a targeted officer working at the u. S. Headquarters. A short air campaign against the modern state ended with no fatalities to a lot of people, this looks like a big Success Story for technology, new american way of war. Revolutionary wars but we made a lot of mistakes including blowing up the chinese industry. This was a mistake that was coordination failures, lots of
Trump in the president ial election. The u. K. Comes out with the post breaks it immigration policy that will close doors for unskilled workers and non English Speaking its. Syria is experiencing its biggest exodus and 9 years of civil war nearly a 1000000 people most of the women and children have now fled the province the countrys last rebel stronghold progovernment forces backed by russia are trying to seize control of the reach of turkey has warned of an imminent attack unless the assault ends mike hanna begins our coverage from the United Nations we have missed repeated weiland confrontations between turkish and Syrian Government forces were it support the Russian Federation is actively engaged in support of the Syrian Governments military operation. U. N. Special envoy offers a bleak view of the political crisis in syria which in turn has resulted in a devastating humanitarian situation that continues to deteriorate on a daily basis close to a 1000000 displaced people being squee
Against the syrian army. Canadian business groups pressure the government to stop a protest against a controversial pipeline which has shut down the rail network. Hello china is reporting a significant drop in the number of new coronavirus cases thats after medical authorities reverted back to a less comprehensive method of testing so beijing has been taking a series of drastic steps in recent weeks to fight covert 19 which has killed over 2100 people right across the country now there were only 394 confirmed cases on wednesday down from nearly 1700 the day before 114 people have died in the past 24 hours the middle east has experienced its 1st casualties 2 elderly people have died in irans coal province. And schools in universities have been closed on thursday to stop further spread of the disease south korea reported 31 new cases bringing the total number of infections to 82 and hong kong residents who were on board the japanese cruise ship diamond princess have now returned home aft
In putting together firstclass programs looking at the region and particularly chinas role in it and todays program countering china in the indo pacific is very much in keeping with his the thrust of his work here at the Hudson Institute. So congratulations on bringing this to fruition. And hes also assembled an absolutely firstrate gripe of group of experts. Starting immediately from my left in the order they will in , richard, currently taiwan, has just completed a new book and hell touch a bit on that. Hes one of the foremost authorities on Southeast Asia and the philippines and particularly the philippinechina relationship. To his left, just returned to washington to become the head of the u. S. Effort of the Observer Research foundation. I first met him almost 30 years ago in japan. Delighted to see how youve developed into an absolute firstclass institute leader, but also a scholar and analyst on the region. And i met today lisolette, a senior fellow here at the institute. Whats
[inaudible conversations] this panel American History sponsored by the Mississippi Library those who are with the Library Commission with the very first organizational meeting we could not do this from all over the state thank youmi for your support. We are in there today and the gratitude to them. You can purchase copies of their books and it would be signed in the program. Ced then open the floor to questions so help me welcome the moderator to the panel. [applause] i will tell you about these guys than me will start a conversation. Tom is a reporter from the New York Times and editor before turning to music on writing fulltime. Dodge city, the typhoon and wildas bill published by Saint Martins press and harpercollins will release. And the other 13 books and those by the l. A. Times and boston globe. And the john lyman award for a maritime history. And of the american my house including the impact of ptsd and First Responders in his number of book reviews and is a native of Southern