Harder to provide treatment to people with serious symptoms. This is the right time to issue a red alert. Its a declaration of an emergency in medical care. Our First Priority will be protecting life the governor says the occupancy of the prefectures hospital beds set aside for serious cases is expected to soon reach 70 . On top of the call for people to stay home, officials plan to extend their requests for bars and restaurants to close early until december 15th. Officials here in tokyo reported 533 new cases on thursday. To date, the number of people who have tested positive in tokyo has exceeded 42,000. 54 are currently in serious condition. Tokyos hospitals have 150 beds for serious cases. The metropolitan government is asking them to increase that to 200. Officials say they want to prevent the spike in severe covid19 cases from affecting treatment for other diseases. Theyre also asking medical institutions to allocate more beds to coronavirus cases that are not serious. Authoritie
I have the pleasure today of moderating this conversation between two outstanding policymakers and scholars. And the us china relationship. And working in the Defense Department and mongolia and the commissioner congressionally mandated Security Review Commission and the author of a terrific new book which is called the china nightmare. And we will be talking about it with him and with retired Lieutenant General hr mcmaster. And a reputation and military service one of those adaptive mines in the American Military i am delighted to have both of them here with us today. I am sorry neglected to say hr is also the author of a new book called battleground. Thank you both for making time for china policy. Thank you very much thank you for your leadership at aei and mr. Mcmaster for joining us. And to have reshaped china policy last few years. I am very thankful as we all are for doing that. The china nightmare, what does my book mean by that . China certainly has grand ambitions and power b
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Color line migration and black resistance in canada 1870 to 1955 and the forthcoming back the glory of their deeds a global history of black soldiers and the great war era. The professor has earned several International Awards and is a former fellow at the university of hidelbergs center and at harvards institute. And finally we have professor jeffrey t. Salmons, professor at history at New York University where he teaches a broad range of courses in United States and race and society. Hes the coauthor of excuse me, author of beyond the ring the role of boxing in american society, and the 2014 book harlems rattlers and the great war which he coauthored and has been rightfully declared the definitive history of the 169 regiment. Hes received fellow ships from the National Endowment of the humanities he has plans to write a book and im going to hold him accountable to this, writing a book on the heroic and tragic life of Henry Johnson. As far as the format for this, our panelists will sp
His absolute priority and he is getting working already in the next 24 hours hell be naming a corona virus taskforce that he will be sitting up he has been advised by various experts for a long period of time now among them ron klain who was the a boat and barack obama but we understand as well that this task force is going to be headed by beck murphy whos a former said Surgeon General appointed by obama and then fired by donald trump in 2018 as well as a former commissioner of the food and Drug Administration David Kessler so this is really a heavyweight team that will be advising biden and which will form part of his Coronavirus Task force as he and his. Vice president elect come heris go forward but biden has made very clear through his campaign and hes made very clear since he was spoke as president elect that he believes that the way to combat the pen did make is to follow the science. And to find donald trump has refused to concede defeat and is preparing for a series of legal fi