West coast. And disneys new film rely on faces calls for a boycott and control the sea over links to. As its released in mainland china. India and china have reached an agreement on deescalation tensions along their disputed border nearly 3 months after the biggest a military confrontation between the 2 sides in the last 45 years Foreign Ministers from both countries have been holding talks in moscow the 5 point plan is centered around honoring existing border agreements 20 indian troops were killed in hand to hand combat in june in the border area of the northern the dak region which china also claims both sides are prohibited from using arms there under a treaty well for more on this lets speak to my whole crew woman hes the Deputy Director and senior associate for south asia at the Wilson Center is asia program he joins us now from washington d. C. Michael we knew these talks were happening did the extend of todays deal come as a surprise to you i think theres actually no timeline f
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Socialism sucks, is more irreverent than most Public Policy books we usually organize events around here at cato but i can assure you the authors we are featuring today are serious accomplished economists with decades of scholarly work. Inevitably, they have drinksn their hand, probably because we chat at receptions, hotel bars and the like. But the conversation is always interesting, informative, and fun. Thats also true of this new book. This is a light book about a heavy topic. So its fortunate, fortuitous rather, that we are featuring today on the birthday of the late milton friedman, one of the greatest economist of the 20th century and the champion of economic and overall human freedom. We were lucky to have known him, or some of us to have worked with him to a limited degree. Im sure he, too, would agree with the title of the book, though i i cant really recallm ever putting his opposition to socialism in quite those terms. Today, socialism has gained an appeal among some americ
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