In putting together firstclass programs looking at the region and particularly chinas role in it and todays program countering china in the indo pacific is very much in keeping with his the thrust of his work here at the Hudson Institute. So congratulations on bringing this to fruition. And hes also assembled an absolutely firstrate gripe of group of experts. Starting immediately from my left in the order they will in , richard, currently taiwan, has just completed a new book and hell touch a bit on that. Hes one of the foremost authorities on Southeast Asia and the philippines and particularly the philippinechina relationship. To his left, just returned to washington to become the head of the u. S. Effort of the Observer Research foundation. I first met him almost 30 years ago in japan. Delighted to see how youve developed into an absolute firstclass institute leader, but also a scholar and analyst on the region. And i met today lisolette, a senior fellow here at the institute. Whats
My name is john heubusch. I have the honor of being executive director for the Ronald Reagan president ial the Ronald Reagan president ial foundation and institute. Thank you all for coming the seating. In honor of our men and women in uniform who defend our freedom around the world, which please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance. [applause] i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Please be seated. [applause] before we get started theres a few people i do like to recognize in the audience this evening. I will start with mayor Keith Mashburn and his wife shelby. [applause] former congressman and his wife. [applause] i see that charlie kurt is here, the founder of turning point us usa. [cheers and applause] and and i know he supposed to be with us. Pat boone. Where is pat . There you go. [cheers and applause] okay. So we have a grea
Weve had a day of rain and a day of clerical actions across into japan and as you can see here from the satellite the house name plenty of cloud with the rain coming through over the facade today still plenty of rain across into the kaido keeping those temperatures lower just 15 celsius in sapporo and this mass you can see here to the east that is the time it is moving very quickly out of the picture so really by sunday it would have cleared away we could still see if you scott it shows very scott to those that equals much of honshu but its a very cloudy picture to round out the weekend a lot the Korean Peninsula plenty of sunshine there 17 celsius in pyongyang and the same across into seoul now down into areas of china theres a little bit of sunshine in between the cloud but really its a blanket of cloud across much of the region and the rain still very extensive across the central provinces and cool snow to the mountains tom which is a lot lower then quite humid in hong kong though i
Java sea 12 minutes after takeoff from indonesias capital jakarta all 189 people on board died including anton so hardys cozzens he says hes disappointed with the reports conclusions. We actually had big hopes that the government would answer all questions but the information was being given as almost nothing to what we already known. The report highlights problems with boeings anti stall software knownas and cas its also implicated in a similar crash in ethiopia in monch which led to the grounding of the max fleet worldwide its significant because it sort of reaffirms that boeing does share responsibility for this for the way they designed the in care system which is the maneuvering characteristics saying that basically took control of way from the pilots and the pilots were having to fight the airplane pilots flying the line jets had reported problems the day before it crashed and they say it should have been grounded for further tests. I feel that safety is not yet the core concern
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