Next a discussion about the political future and chinas military modernization with policy experts from the broking institution and at the German Marshall Fund. The panel also talks about the tension between taiwan and china and the probability of the u. S. Going to war with china over taiwan. Welcome everyone. Im Suzanne Maloney Vice President and director of the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution and im delighted to welcome you to todays event marking the release of an important new book titled u. S. Taiwan relations with chinas challenge lead to a crisis. It is a great honor to help launch such a profoundly important to study of the u. S. Taiwan relations and to celebrate its truly impressive coauthors, ryan and richard bush who are my colleagues here at brookings and Bonnie Glaser of the German Marshall Fund. I want to congratulate them on the publication of this book. Growing concerns about chinas intentions and plans prompted an enormous amount of policy attentio
Can strengthen intelligence sharing tips. We have mr. Fallon here to csis, and i was explaining, the new cycle has been quiet and slow the last few days, and we were so glad he could come here and help elevate our discussion, but he comes as an incredibly important time, certainly on the heels of several days of incredible news, not only security related issues, whether that was the north korean launch of a intercontinental ballistic missile, but also as we see the meeting unfolding between President Trump and putin today. Secretary fallon was here two years ago in march and the topic of the discussion was in defense of a rulesbased order, how that trance atlantic relationship can be used, and now in todays discussion, we will again look at the defense of the rulesbased order and see where we go from here. Secretary fallon assumed secretary of state of defense, his position on july 15th, 2014. Two days later a Russian Missile shot down mh17. That was his first few days on the job, and
North korea underscored the warning of the state of military exercises by south korea and the u. S. This morning kim young uns regime fired two missiles in the sea of japan. They say its for exercises of a south korean invasion but say theyre prurely defensive. On saturday Chinas Central Bank fought back against an economic slowdown that cut benchmark Interest Rates for the second time in three months. And israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in washington in advance of his controversial speech on capitol hill. Tomorrow hell press conference to delay any agreement on nuclear power. Netanyahu may argue it will threaten israels security and is speaking at the invitation of john boehner who did not consult the white house or president. Secretary of state john kerry insists theres no problem between the administration and israel. I talked to the Prime Minister regularly including yesterday. We are not you know, we dont want to see this turned into some great political football. Obv
Battle of tal afar. Continuing on to serve in afghanistan afghanistan. And now h. R. , im going to butcher your title. So ill let you give it to me directly. Its Deputy Commander general for training and doctrine command for futures. And then the clunky long title is the Army Capabilities integration center. Im glad i didnt try to memorize that. Arcic. But what h. R. Is really that quite extraordinary combination of thinker and great military leader. There arent that many in our history. There are a few people like general jack galvin but its very few. So were really privileged i think to have somebody with us who has an extraordinarily distinguished record of command including command in combat. With an equally distinguished record as a thinker. He was also i should have mentioned up front a senior fellow at the iiss and remains affiliated with iiss as well. Its wonderful to be here with him particularly since as i said were old friends. The way we thought wed do this is begin it as a
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