Storm, but now it is my pleasure to get the program started by passing it on to the museums Senior Historian and the executive director of the institute for the study of democracy doctor rob who will be leading todays conversation. Thanks, jeremy and welcome to everyone from beautiful new orleans louisiana. Quite literally in the path of the storm perhaps a few hours from now on the eye of the hurricane. We hope everything goes smoothly. New orleans gets a lot of the latter but we hope we do not get any today. Having said that, we are excited about todays program. Every now and then in my line of work you get to interview an author whose line of work you feel like youve read the published but with this particular author that might be difficult. A writer for the times uk and bestselling author of numerous books the supply and the traitor among the great big trail what a great book that is. I will just tell the audience you really dish this up in the style. Let me begin by asking the kin
China its more shore a more a show of force says it celebrates 70 years of communist rule. Further controversy surrounds startled trump to marriages he saw its help from another foreign leader it abates to discredit the miller investigation. And grease slicks to an energy lead economic recovery percent support costs to the environment. Im joined again at the world athletics championships in cattle where its been a dream run for african athletes as they ignite their passionate. And we begin in asia where a day of celebration has escalated to insert a new level of violence on the streets of hong kong tens of thousands of people have to. Warnings from the police that it would be very very dangerous to protest on the ports been the 7 seas the anniversary of the phone saying of the peoples republic of china theyve used live rounds of ammunition as well as tear gas and water cannon to try and break up the crowds of demonstrators who police are confirmed one person has been shot a video widel
The Longstanding Alliance goes back decades. Two very different attitudes towards china. Australia wants to get along with china and the United States. The United States and donald trump in particular see china as a rising threat. How you navigate that, what we get in the press conference on china is how the issue of china has affected the relationships the u. S. House with allies in the pacific. David as we saw in the opening remarks in the oval office a short time ago, there was a lot of talk about the longstanding close relationship between the United States and australia. Has the dispute the United States has with china put strain on the relationship between australia and china . It has. Australia has been asked to pick sides. It does not want to pick sides. At the same time, it is navigating its own relationship with china and questioning whether it has gone too far in being too cozy. We have seen some universities in australia question relationships with the Chinese Communist par
The situation in the capital of china, how our president was greeted, i want details, we are now in the house of the people, this is actually the very place where today throughout the first half of the day, now we have its already past lunch time in beijing , negotiations are taking place in all formats, and we wanted to show you this building a little, but since the great hall of the people is the largest Parliament Building in the whole world, its certainly not easy like this, well, this is how you look back, a huge majestic space. And in some of them, in the most comfortable halls most suitable for negotiations, the negotiations actually took place today, today we have already completed negotiations in the so called narrow format, in the socalled expanded, wide format, then the leaders went to the press, in in their presence , about ten agreements were signed, the leaders signed a joint statement and made statements for journalists, as they met, well, here we are. Now we are in the
Littleknown european expert, sir mick jagger athletic i think of him because interest organization, some think hes saying you cant always get what you want but if you try real hard, he might get what you need. Please join me in thanking the panel. Please join me in welcoming the panelist to the stage. [applause] its a pleasure to be here and having a chance to delve into the issues explored a little bit in the first panel now will get a bit more into defense. Elsa to stage and in short each of our panelists. The consensus on the appropriate size and strategy for equitable sharing and strategic risks has been an enduring talent and realization of nato deterrence of defense policy to be heard already. It became clear ambitions goals set at the 1952 meeting that was never going to be achieved so nato shifted to greater reliance on Nuclear Defense on u. S. Strategic forces and moving to retaliation in the 50s which envisioned or sustained conventional forces preserving ambiguity. We heard