Good afternoon and welcome to the aspen institute. My name is nick burns, executive director of the Aspen Strategy Group and the aspen security forum. Its a great pleasure to see this crowd. You all again cspan so be on your best behavior. And we are here to launch a a y important book on the future of the u. S. China relationship called the struggle forth powe. I agree friend could not be here with us but hes very much part of this effort. I want to pay tribute to our former secretary of defense and good friend of mine, secretary bill and mister janet , secretary , janet, welcome. In i also want to pay tribute to i think one of the people for me and bodies bipartisanship. Hes involved in every effort to bring peopletogether across partisan lines and thats steve hadley, our former National Security advisor here as well. Our director is jan and 90 well, we you will be seeing anja as one of the people doing the interviews. The subject is china. I think all of us agree our relationship wi
Activists were able to rescue most of those files. From it for their comfort. But the fight to save the files was far from one that took a Hunger Strike extreme effort on our part to convince west german elites politicians and those who wanted to keep a lid on this for various reasons. After all nobody knew exactly how sensitive the information that east germany state security had collected was in the end the files were made accessible to the public the temp lien applied to see his own. It was certainly a unique experience i was part of the 1st group that got to see their files in 1930. 9 u. S. An opposition figure it was highly likely that a very comprehensive file a whited me it was very thorough but there was also one from the 1st half of the 1970s that was classified as a pup a try to follow. For 2 years template himself was an unofficial start as the informant he ultimately quit and got involved with civil Rights Groups later he was arrested and kicked out of east germany after th
Government is planning to organize a summit to fooldom. We all work in the same direction will go for. No good libyan will accept any bloodshed from the sun cease fire is a wise decision. Also coming up tonight an exclusive report hiding his identity to bring the truth to why what one Hong Kong Police officer thinks about the prodemocracy protests. Im just frustrated because some offices really dislike the protestors and honestly they really want to bait them up i have to say the senior offices have basically messed it up. On to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day with libyas unlikely peace broker in 2011 germany Drew International criticism when it refused to support a u. N. Security Council Resolution that authorized military intervention in libya early ends fears at the same time would soon be realized that libya liberated from a dictator would soon become libya front line of a new proxy war the capital tripoli remains the t
Of the whole thing will happen a lot faster theres no place you know. Was open the gate the storming of no man in street was a key moment after the buildings and other cities had already been occupied in the proceeding months several 1000 people now poured into the berlin headquarters. Stassi workers tried to destroy files up until the very last minute but the activists were able to rescue most of those files. From the border come from all of them. But the fight to save the files was far from one that took a Hunger Strike extreme effort on our part to convince west german elites politicians and those who wanted to keep a lid on this for various reasons. After all nobody knew exactly how sensitive the information that east germany state security had collected was in the end the files were made accessible to the public templi applied to see his own. It was certainly a unique experience i was part of the 1st group that got to see the files in 1930. 9 us in opposition figure it was highly
As no i was in meet those women back home who are bound by their duties and social norms and informed him of all the basic rights my name is the about of the homes and i work into. This week on world stories. Families fight for their lives in venezuela. A Police Officer criticizes his own ranks you know im gone. But we begin in germany 30 years ago citizens stormed the headquarters of the hated stars the secret police in east berlin a contemporary witness reports. He was. Theyre both going templi mean a former east german civil rights campaigner 30 years ago he and other demonstrators pushed their way into east germany stars the headquarters its still the resting place of thousands of files on citizens who were spied on so often so yes i said so you know what we want this peaceful disarmament of our actual takeover of the whole thing will happen a lot faster theres no personal. Was opened the gate the storming of norman and street was a key moment after stasi buildings and other cities