Kenow today. He currently serves as ceo of Business Executives for National Security. He joined there in january 2020 following 39 years of distinguished military service and served for three years as the commander of the u. S. Central command and he prior to serving as the commander of Central Command he commanded the u. S. Special Operations Command and the special joint Operations Command in addition to his current role as the executives for National Security he is also a distinguished senior fellow in National Security at the middle Eastern Institute and we have the president of the middle east institute here. He has got to talk about the theme that has come up through other discussions this morning, which we are all aware of but werent exactly sure what to think about and i think a moment about 30 minutes we will know exactly what to think about it, about how we should think about Great Power Competition in the gulf so. Im delighted to introduce general joseph votel. He sent to th
Of a diplomat is a sell them to solve a problem. You occasionally get the opportunity to negotiate an arms agreement that solves a part of the program, but even all of the arms control agreements between the u. S. And the soviet union never ended the tensions between the two systems, the two peoples, the different senses of ambition. We manage to we manage situations so they do not get out of hand. It is hard to define complete and total success when you are looking mostly at keeping the status quo or a slightly improved status quo. And it is hard to give credit for things that happen because people say they whether not happen anyway. It seemsthe jcpoa to me to have been a pragmatic attempt by the Obama Administration to deal with one of the Serious Problems of the iranian threat a potential nuclear program. It did not deal with proxies, Ballistic Missiles, it did not touch on religious minorities, things that people may have wanted to see included in the deal because the Obama Adminis
Can everyone hear me . First we have to use my imagination a little bit because there is no fireplace here but we are thinking its a fireside chat. Im grateful to have this opportunity here, dr. Kissinger and i met several years ago, now. Dr. Kissinger has been a key person where you can go to for advice about both professional and career things as well as geopolitical event, right, very few friends can do both, but dr. Kissinger really needs no introduction. As all of you know hes one of the worlds most renowned geopolitical practitioner as well as thinker, and he did all of that well before ai came into bei being. He has that rare combination of a true intellect and i admire him for taking on something relatively new like ai after the height of his career, ai is pretty daunting, as someone also relatively new to it, dr. Kissinger decided he wanted to do a deep dive and learn more about the technology and implications of Artificial Intelligence for our political systems and for geopol
Look at the protests taking place in hong kong. The unrest began as a movement against a law allowing hong kongers to be deported to china. Since june millions of protesters have marched through the streets demanding greater democracy. Set to start in just a moment here. Live coverage on cspan 3. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to todays hearing on hong kongs summer of discontent and u. S. Policy responses. This is the second China Commission hearing this year on the situation in hong kong. During our may hearing, the commission heard compelling testimony from Hong Kong Pro Democracy advocates, including martin lee and nathan law who expressed concerns about the extradition bill that was quickly moving towards becoming law at that time. That legislation would have put anyone in hong kong, including u. S. Citizens, at risk of extradition to Mainland China. A lack of due process and custodial abuse have been welldocumented. Over the last 16 weeks, millions of people from all walk
Response debates on a National Security though that would eliminate many of the territories remaining freedoms. Previous attempts deposit were met with mass protests. The ive been visible and welcome half of thousands of experiencing catastrophic hunger according to what you went back for board. Unless there was urgent intervention. If once a famine is a minute. Its a message to us has repeated warning that the entire population of gaza is experiencing severe levels of acute food in security. As well. Is under increasing pressure from washington and other allies to allow in more, right . A huge crowds of guys and gathered to receive aid at the shelter run by the United Nations agency for Palestinian Refugees amid an increasing hunger crisis. And the gaza strip, where aide has only been trickling in since the beginning of the war. The people are dying. We are asking the era people to press for a ceasefire in god, so we are exhausted in dying the United Nations as published and slaves re