Life, i would have written a book about Andrew Johnson, i would have told them they were crazy. Its not that i dont think hes an interesting person. He really is an interesting person. And not that i didnt know anything about him, but for most of my career as a historian, i have tried to avoid the period of reconstruction. And it sounds strange for someone who writes about slavery, which is a difficult topic to write about. But i find it easier to deal with the 17th century and 18th century and attitudes about race and slavery than i do dealing with reconstruction. Theres something about it that is just maddening to me, and i think what it is is that it was a moment of opportunity. When i think of the people in the 17th and 18th century who have very primitive ideas about many, many things in the world, and you know there are lots of things they dont know, i can not totally forgive them, but its not as irritating to me, exasperating to me as a period of time when you have photographs,
Chinese. Is the aft steel and. On all sides wake up. And we visit a city in thailand thats being televised by monkeys with no tourists to feed them because of the pandemic gangs of the hungry animals roaming the streets. Welcome to the program Chinas National Peoples Congress has passed a controversial security law for hong kong that critics fear will give beijing more control over the semi autonomous territory some people in hong kong showed their support for the new law prodemocracy activists opposed to. The strict freedom and is that with the one country 2 systems policy agreed by try. When he took control of the former british colony in 1907 britain has called the new law a grave step but hong kongs chief executive Cunningham Said the norwood only targets a small criminal minority. Done enough in hong kong as prodemocracy activist wong disha when the chief executive says the no one target only a small criminal minority do you believe. No i dont think we can barely carry lemon sayin
Obviously, this is a verdict which we will respect, in charge and i think, going forward, who do you trust . I know, and we respect the judicial process. John, you have very strong opinions on this today. What do you make of i have to say, i strongly disagree the ruling . It is concerning that with what the justices have found. The ruling . It is concerning that the Prime Minister has felt like he i dont think that its right. Can get away with something so clearly unlawful. It is good it has and i invite borisjohnson, been proven unlawful. Because i get in the historic words, to consider his position. Parliament has its opinions, that cheering may be something that the prime mp5 will now return minister is getting in the way of to Parliament Tomorrow morning the process of brexit, but silencing at 11 30am and get back to work. Them is not the way about it, especially when you preach i have instructed the house democracy, which i get as an authorities to prepare not for the recall the p
Results of the survey so stay tuned. So let me set the stage for a few minutes on a project on cyber enabled Economic Warfare really got started. It really had its genesis back in the 1990s in discussions with incredible smart people at the Smith Richardson foundation that is sponsored this work, but the intersection of economic and security. In 1997 the Asian Financial crisis it, remember . Began in thailand and the contagion quickly spread to indonesia, south korea, malaysia, the countrys throughout the region. Foreign debt to gdp ratios rose over 180 during the worst of the crisis. Writes occur, governments fell. The causes of the crisis were varied but most experts think it was the combination of crony capitalism, and economic bubble flooding the market with cheap money, and a simultaneous slump in semiconductor values with the rise in u. S. Dollar. What would it mean to relations, taiwan and china . What would it do to radical groups . It was the malaysian Prime Minister at the ti
States have a good offensive policy. I think it was admiral rogers not that long ago within the last few months said just as much as that, that we dont have a good cyber offensive policy. We talked about it ed a inad infinitum in classified settings for the entire 10 years i was on the intelligence community. We could never get consensus to move to the next place what that cyber offensive is. As a personal note i saw the administration say they will make china pay for the consequence of the opm hack. I cant wait. I cannot wait to see what the heck that thing is. Candidly, im not too excited about whats going to be. We havent crossed that threshold to bring everybody in this room to deal with this problem. Long answer to your question i dont believe they can go extra territorial to what they perceive is a threat at that point. Thank you so much. Thank you if we can give a hand to the speaks. You can see how we can take many hours talking about that. We will roll into the next panel capa