Professor joanna schwartz, its such a pleasure. Finally meet you. How are you. Im well. How are you . Very good, thank you. Very good. I really enjoyed reading your book. Even though the subject is quite a serious subject matter. So i feel a little uncomfortable saying i enjoyed it, but i always enjoy being informed. And certainly as someone who focuses on these issues in my teaching and as former Police Officer here in new york city, i just found it absolutely fascinating. I wanted to start off with what what motivated you i know this is your area of scholarship and focus but broadly speaking what motivated you to write this book. Well i before i a professor at ucla, i a civil rights litigator new york city bringing lawsuits. New york city police, Police Officers and new York City Department of corrections, other agencies in the area. And when i was in that practice, there were a lot of questions that came to mind about the way in which our system, the way in which civil litigation ac
Which was a Foreign Policy read story. Alex is an editor of the georgetown journal of International Affairs and former officer in the British Royal navy and holds a master of arts and Security Studies from georgetown university. Also with us is brent sadler, who after a 26 year navy career with numerous operational tours on Nuclear Powered submarines was assigned to chief of Naval Operations staff at u. S. Pacific command and the Senior Defense official in malaysia. As the Heritage Senior Research fellow he focused on Maritime Security and the technologies shaping our future Maritime Forces in the navy and is the recent author of the book naval power in the 21st century, what he describes as a contest in the chinese designs to reorder the world to its interests by playing to u. S. Strengths and chinas weaknesses. We will start on stage by asking the experts some questions and after a bit of that we will go to you the audience for your russians, both online and the ones in the auditoriu
Informed. Cspan, unfiltered, unbiased, word for word, from the Nations Capital to wherever you are. Because the opinion that matters the most is your own. This is what democracy looks like. Cspan, powered by cable. X, a National Defense researchers discuss chinas global footprint and geopolitical relationship. They also consider how Financial Data can be used to predict attentional locations for the next Chinese Naval base. This event is hosted by the Heritage Foundation. We are delighted you could be with us today. A reminder to silence your phone so we can all be uninterrupted here. If there is one area a bipartisan agreement in this town, of which there are very few, there is one, and that is the danger that chinese common is Party Presents to the rest of the world. Congress holds frequent hearings on this topic and has stood up a select committee on the strategic competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist party but most of the attention thus far has focused on
Professor joanna schwartz, its such a pleasure. Finally meet you. How are you. Im well. How are you . Very good, thank you. Very good. I really enjoyed reading your book. Even though the subject is quite a serious subject matter. So i feel a little uncomfortable saying i enjoyed it, but i always enjoy being informed. And certainly as someone who focuses on these issues in my teaching and as former Police Officer here in new york city, i just found it absolutely fascinating. I wanted to start off with what what motivated you i know this is your area of scholarship and focus but broadly speaking what motivated you to write this book. Well i before i a professor at ucla, i a civil rights litigator new york city bringing lawsuits. New york city police, Police Officers and new York City Department of corrections, other agencies in the area. And when i was in that practice, there were a lot of questions that came to mind about the way in which our system, the way in which civil litigation ac
Professor joanna schwartz, its such a pleasure. Finally meet you. How are you. Im well. How are you . Very good, thank you. Very good. I really enjoyed reading your book. Even though the subject is quite a serious subject matter. So i feel a little uncomfortable saying i enjoyed it, but i always enjoy being informed. And certainly as someone who focuses on these issues in my teaching and as former Police Officer here in new york city, i just found it absolutely fascinating. I wanted to start off with what what motivated you i know this is your area of scholarship and focus but broadly speaking what motivated you to write this book. Well i before i a professor at ucla, i a civil rights litigator new york city bringing lawsuits. New york city police, Police Officers and new York City Department of corrections, other agencies in the area. And when i was in that practice, there were a lot of questions that came to mind about the way in which our system, the way in which civil litigation ac