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
Questions, there will be a signing. We have books behind the register. When you come back david will be happy to sign them and then finally after everything is said and done if you could collapse your chairs and prop them up against the wall that would be greatly appreciated by the staff. Thank you. So yes, tonight politics and prose has the pleasure of hosting david enrich at the New York Times. He previously was a reporter and editor at the washington journal, new york and london and was a journal editor. Hes won numerous journalism awards including 2016 journal for future writing and previously the author of the Spider Network hell a genius and scheming that bankers pulled off one of the greatest scams in history which was shortlisted for the Financial Times best of the year and his new book dark towers Deutsche Bank donald trump and the epic trail of destruction, traces the dark history with the president as well as the tragic case of William Brookes illustrates the evolution of ch
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Cochair of our Organization Former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice. [applause] and you will be hearing from secretary rice in about half an hour she will be one of our conversationalists our good friend could not be here to the former secretary of defense bill and janet cohen. Welcome. [applause] and those that are involved in every effort across partisan lines and that is former National Security advisor. And rahm emanuel we have worked together i think all of us agree the relationship with china will be the greatest challenge we face as a country in the next several decades. And in that relationship to establish full diplomatic relations, ed jimmy carter and Deng Xiaoping but most of that time to the democratic administrations, we all felt that we were seeking cooperation with china that was the basic strategy in recent years there is no question that both countries have swung from cooperation to a strategy of competition and that gets to the heart of our Vital National interest