Think about, you know, possible strategies for moving forward. There is one piece of good news that ill mention, that in the recent appropriations package to talk about threats to Global Health could not be more timely. I am pleased to convene the meeting. Welcome to the council on Foreign Relations meeting. I am frances townsend, the executive Vice President of Worldwide Affairs at mcandrews inc. And i will be presiding over todays discussion. I will have the privilege of leading the conversation for 30 minutes, then i will open it up to questions and answers. We will end at 1 30 p. M. These gentlemen are very busy, as you can imagine, dealing with the coronavirus. By looking back , emergingast decade Infectious Diseases played a recurring and ominous theme, be it ebola, the zika virus, and now the novel coronavirus. The threat is not dissipating. When it comes to nondisease natural disasters the stafford act provides funds to enable Immediate Response by and by comparison there are s
We will hear from japanese epidemics at the center for strategic and international studies. Good afternoon. Thanks for joining us. I am mike green and a professor at georgetown, we are delighted to have all of you join us in discussion over the next two hours with four of japans rising academic thinkers on Foreign Policy and economic affairs. This is the seventh cohort we have invited under a program called strategic japan. Eight years ago we discussed with the Prime Ministers Office how to expand Strategic Thinking dialogue, planning between the us and japan. One thing to think about which was new for japan was the need to go beyond the traditional bureaucratic sources and to tap into the growing expertise among japans academic experts on issues that affect foreignpolicy and to bring more academics into the tent in japan and expand the dialogue with the us and to make sure japanese scholars who are making an impact in japan are sharing their ideas with the us, getting reactions and re
Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 with the recognition u. S. Leadership might not really return in the way it has been in the past. This is where i think it would be interesting to see where japan would head. Ill collect a question or two and let the panel respond and turn over to matt. If you have questions for the panel, now is your chance. Youll get another shot with matts panel and then over coffee. We have mics. I teach at American University and used to be an american diplomat. Listening to the presentation of japans interests and objectives in this situation, one cant help thinking that there is tremendous value to japan in having a close, cooperative relationship with south korea in the region and in these multilateral organizations and yet theres some obvious tensions in that relationship. I would love to hear from our japanese intellects why you think the japanese elite are prioritizing other issues instead of getting long with south korea and what y
Threatens to escalate the trade war with china if a deal isnt reached. He says the deal is close but provides view details. Spains ibex is the worst performer. The party is still short of a parliamentary majority and tullow oil and the iea wants global demand. We are live at the ubs European Conference where well be hosting a global panel in about 40 minutes time. Charles plosser and peter praet, the former chief ecb economist good morning one of our top stories today, trump has called on the fed to cut Interest Rates to negative he resumes criticism of the Central Banks policy and insisted the bank has restricted the u. S. We are actively competing with nations who openly cut Interest Rates so that now many are getting paid when they are paying off their loan. Negative interest. Whoever heard of such a thing. Give me some of that our Federal Reserve doesnt let us do it later today, Jerome Powell is set to address the state of the economy to congress. The central bank said the rate cut
Welcome to you in the United States and around the worl. Im Fareed Zakaria coming to you live from new york. Today a today on the program, the coronation of charles iii. How different will his reign be from that of his mother . We will explore. Also, the curious case of the alleged attack on the kremlin. Chinas power play in the asiapacific and the the american economy. Ill talk about all of that and hor with an allstar panel. Finally, Bernard Henri levi started filming in ukraine just days after the war began. Ill talk to him about his new documentary Slava Ukraine and how he thinks this tragic war will end. But first, here is my take. We now have a Biden Doctrine. The Biden Administration has set it out in a striking recent address by the National Security adviser jake sullivan. Sullivan outlines the administrations International Economic policy but it is really the Overarching Framework Por president bidens approach to the word defining in lucid terms the idea behind the slogan of F