Reforms. The king has approved thursdays coup, but protests continue. You have been there many times. How extreme is this . I havent been there in recent weeks, but this time, it appears different from the outside looking at it ondemically, and carrying conversations with people inside thailand. The fear and what you saw over the weekend is that there is a ratcheting up of tensions, this as protesters become increasingly agitated with the way this coup is unfolding and the level of power that the , theal Prayuth Chanocha Army Commander and effective head of government, is commanding. Yesterday, he dissolved the thai senate. That removes the last Democratic Institution in the country. It is one of the reasons why you saw protesters out on the streets in force. The good news is, despite 2000 protesters moving towards victory monument, the military, even though there were many, there were no major clashes from what we understand. There were protests in a northern city, as well. It will be
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Good afternoon. I would like to welcome you all to this very special conference in celebration of the 35th anniversary of the u. S. China diplomatic relationship. Director of the china center here at brookings. Im thrilled to see such a big crowd of people. I had no idea i was this popular. Just as we finally saw a thaw in the temperature in washington this week, after a very long in u. S. Chinaaw relations more than three decades ago was almost equally as long awaited. The thaw began with pingpong diplomacy during the presidency of richard nixon. The ice finally fully mended by andtime president carter the chinese leader agreed to the 1979 joint community on establishments of diplomatic relations. It seems quite fitting that we are holding this event during a week when we have seen pictures streaming back from china of First Lady Michelle Obama playing pingpong, learning tai chi. Quite impressive, if you saw the picture. And appearing at schools to speak to the future generations of c
This. It will be broadcast again on wndb and we will let you know when our partners that shes been will be carrying this, most likely in the next month. We have an event coming up on the 18th. It will be a live town hall and you are all invited to come after questions of congressman desantis in a live broadcast. That will be the 18th right here in the auditorium. Dr. Matusis will be selling his dvds in just a moment. You can line up and say hello and pick up a copy. We will be making those sales right here. Ladies and gentlemen, once again, dr. Jonathan matusis. [applause] thank you for being with us tonight. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] next representatives of the National Basketball association about sports and cultural diplomacy. After that, the american director the director of the American Legion. Then, weekly addresses with Vice President i and Vice President biden. On the next washington journal,
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