I handle the Asian Program here. Its my opportunity on behalf of carnegie today to host a pair of panels that include some of the people i admire the most in the field of contemporary china studies. We at carnegie and i think throughout the china watching community have had tremendous admiration for the leadership and the production of the china leadership monitor, which is organized by professor alice miller at the Hoover Institution of stanford university. They have established a terrific record for hearing the facts as opposed to trends, feelings, moods, and things like that. So whenever you want to touch base with reality, i recommend you go online to the china leadership monitor, and do precisely that. Today, were going to give you a sampler of their writings in the form of presentations looking ahead at the 19th Party Congress, which is just a very short time from now. We have the day broken into two panels. The first one will be the people you see here. Ill moderate. Michael swa
For hours. Good morning. Its a busy morning inside of americas news room and im bill hemmer. Martha all of this is happening while the white house is holding a summit on the quote violent threat of extremism. They are talking about addressing the problem of the communities where they live. What can you tell us about this attack that bill was referring to. Reporter isis fighters continue to push into territory in iraq and syria. Irbil is the Major Kurdish city where the kurdish fighters are based. They are low on weapons and supplies than is a fear that if isis pushes through these defensive lines it will open upper bill to isis. We saw where isis fighters pushed into the town of albaghdadi. A major town near a military base where there are u. S. Marines. In doing so they have taken over albaghdadi and they burned 30 people to death. Maybe as many as 45 or so. Sighs is able to break through defensive lines and get close to key population areas. Without kurdish fighters there there is a
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