Institution for a decade. One of our finest and most objective i think in scholarly think tanks in washington so im glad to be here. Glad to be with ryan and patricia will have a conversation and i will not bore you with a long speech. They have asked me to give a few introductory comments. I wanted to do that to set the stage of where i think we are in u. S. China relations. Ive just come back four days ago from beijing and its been a very active period in a relationship with the china and was with the president in woodside, California North of the stanford campus for his meeting with president xi jim king. I look at this and i think most people do come of the u. S. China relationship is the most consequential relationship the United States has now. Particularly we will have it for the next couple of decades. We are the two leading economies in the world and will be into the 20 40s and we are the two most powerful militaries in the world and certainly will be for the next two or three
Im very excited to introduce her to you. She stuck to Fay Yarbrough professor of history and an associate dean at rice university. Dr. Yabra as an expert on 19th century native american history, and shes got special interest in the interactions between Indigenous People and people of african descent during the 19th century. So her first book was race and the Cherokee Nation sovereignty in the 19th century, and her most recent book is called choctaw confederates the American Civil War in indian country. And of course you recognize the title. That book is the subject of tonights talk and its also basically brand new. I noticed its official publication date was exactly two weeks ago. So its a twoweek birthday for your book this evening and were excited to share it with you. You can find it in all of the usual bookstore places as well as directly from the university of north carolina, press the publisher. So the talk will be around 30 to 35 minutes or so. Well have plenty of time for discu
, tell us what city. You are in, what is the situation there in the whole country now . Well, im in one of the cities in the center of the country, we can say that, in principle, the situation is calm, naturally there is no panic, people know what needs to be done, everyone has their own tasks, now, naturally, there is mass mobilization, so many are helping their loved ones, effectively mobilize, israel has already collected about 300,000 reservists, this official. Data, this is a huge number , naturally, this requires a lot of wellcoordinated logistics to provide our reservists with everything they need, food, transportation, sleeping bags, everything else, please tell me, just yesterday, also on social networks we saw footage of empty shelves in stores, in addition, they advised Israeli Citizens to stock up on water, food and necessary medicines for 70. 2 hours in case of bombing, so that bomb shelters could somehow survive, as people are informed, as citizens comply with everything
Celebrate any beautiful, opulent book that gives us the history of those rooms and the collection in its entirety to celebrate as well. And we are sitting in the ben franklin diplomatic room at this time. What is your connection to the state departments americas collection book . Well, im here on franklins coattails because had written a book about Ben Franklins years in, france, when he is essentially paving way for the American Foreign service, hes really first foreign ambassador. And in the years that he spends in france, puts america on the map and as that is the genesis really of the department of state in the beginnings of, American Foreign policy. Im here in a way, as Ben Franklins companion. And that, of course, is your book, the great improvised about Ben Franklins time in france. You describe franklin as combative, prideful, callous and overbearing. Does that make for a diplomat . No, i think is ben franklin, as he dealt with his colleagues, a curious thing about franklins ye
We talking to you at the state department . Largely because we have glorious newly refurbished rooms to celebrate any beautiful, opulent book that gives us the history of those rooms and the collection in its entirety to celebrate as well. And we are sitting in the ben franklin diplomatic room at this time. What is your connection to the state departments americas collection book . Well, im here on franklins coattails because had written a book about Ben Franklins years in, france, when he is essentially paving way for the American Foreign service, hes really first foreign ambassador. And in the years that he spends in france, puts america on the map and as that is the genesis really of the department of state in the beginnings of, American Foreign policy. Im here in a way, as Ben Franklins companion. And that, of course, is your book, the great improvised about Ben Franklins time in france. You describe franklin as combative, prideful, callous and overbearing. Does that make for a dip