Good afternoon and welcome to the aspen institute. I am the executive director of the Strategy Group and formed and its a great pleasure to see this crowd. You will all be on cspan so be on your best behavior. We are here to launch an important book on the future of the u. S. China relationship called the struggle for power u. S. China relations in the 21st century. I want to say a word about that but first, recognize distinguished guests. I want to recognize the cochair of the organization, former secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice whos here with us. And youl you will be hearing fm secretary rice and about half an hour she will be one of our conversationalists. The harvard emeritus professor could not be here with us but is very much part of this effort. I want to pay tribute to the former secretary of defense and a very good friend of mine, secretary bill and mrs. Janet calling. Welcome. [applause] i also want to pay tribute to one of the people who form the embodies bipartisanship
The aspen institute. I am the executive director of the Strategy Group and formed and its a great pleasure to see this crowd. You will all be on cspan so be on your best behavior. We are here to launch an important book on the future of the u. S. China relationship called the struggle for power u. S. China relations in the 21st century. I want to say a word about that but first, recognize distinguished guests. I want to recognize the cochair of the organization, former secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice whos here with us. And youl you will be hearing fm secretary rice and about half an hour she will be one of our conversationalists. The harvard emeritus professor could not be here with us but is very much part of this effort. I want to pay tribute to the former secretary of defense and a very good friend of mine, secretary bill and mrs. Janet calling. Welcome. [applause] i also want to pay tribute to one of the people who form the embodies bipartisanship was involved in every effort
Then kurt i dont know who that person is and someone whos a strong proponent of American Power and kurt has spent his life taking about this competition and hes on our side. We are down to the last of the last but not the least of our rapidfire conversations and we couldnt imagine anyone better to do it with than you, kurt campbell. He was assistant secretary of state for asia for obama, the author of the pit which was later renamed, we wont tackle you on that one and slightly less wellknown, kurt was the first person to get me involved in the Strategy Group when i was a mere kid so thank you very much for that and for being so inclusive. Let me start for you the same question i asked mike, i think i know what youre going to say but id like to ask you anyway. If we had a democratic administration, what would be the goal for our relationship with china . What would the perfect relationship with china look like . If you dont mind i want to say a word of thanks not only to nick who incred
Its a great pleasure to see this crowd. You will all get cspan so be on your best behavior. We are here to launch a very important book on the future of the u. S. China relationship called the struggle for power u. S. China relations in the 21st century. I want to say word about that but first i want to recognize some very distinguished guests. I want to recognize the cochair of our Organization Former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice who was here with us. [applause] and youll be hearing from secretary rice in about half an hour. She will be one of our conversationalists. Our other cochair, harvard ever does professor, could not be here with his buddies very much part of this effort. I want to pay tribute to our former secretary of defense and a very good friend of mine, secretary bill cohen and mrs. Janet cohen. Welcome secretary. Janet, welcome. [applause] i want to pay tribute to one of i think one of the people who for me a bodies bipartisanship whos involved in every effort to
A terminator combat vehicle, 18 tanks and five artillery systems, the commander of the tavria troops group, oleksandr ternavskyi, said. Also, ukrainian fighters continue to actively advance in the melitopol direction, where the armed forces of ukraine have improved their tactical position to the west. New air defenses for protection ukrainian cities and Energy Facilities more weapons to continue the counteroffensive, this and other things are discussed today during the meeting of the Contact Group for assistance to ukraine in the ramstein format at the nato headquarters in brussels. We will learn more about this from our international viewer, yuri fizer, he is in direct contact with us. Yura, i congratulate you and i am already waiting for details from you. Congratulations. Greetings to all our viewers, well , there are not many details yet, it is known that it is a very productive day, since in fact it will be two productive days, because today they are talking, well, almost exclusive