The u. S. And China Economic Security Review Commission held a hearing to examine the current relations between the United States and china. This portion event included a Panel Discussion looking at chinas relationship with taiwan and hong kong. This is one hour and 40 minutes. Good afternoon. Id like to welcome our third panel that will explore relationships we will start with miss ms. Bonnie glaser shes published wildly in academic journals. As well as Media Outlets. And we will hear from dr. Lin. Her commentary on the political economy of Greater China appears in english and chinese media. And we will also hear from dr. Hui. She is written on hong kong democracy movements. I ask all of the witnesses to keep your comments to seven minutes so that we can ask lots of questions which we are very good at. We will start with ms. Glaser. Thank you. For your invitation today. As you know this marks the fourth year of deteriorating relationships between the china and taiwan. At a time when i
Thank you for coming, my name is steph jones and director of the transnational threats project for the center for strategic and international studies. We have a fantastic two sets of panels on what is an important subject. Part of the motivation i think from Suzanne Spaulding and i and looking at this. It was to look at some of the recent attacks, including el paso and the synagogue attacks. There has been a dialogue, debate within the u. S. , about how to respond to it. What the degree of threat and how serious it is and how to respond. What we would like to do is move in the following sense. We will begin with a discussion about the evolution of the threat and how domestic terrorism, i know some of the terminology for some of these groups in the government is the racially motivated violent extremist groups. I cannot promise that panelists will use that term. Just be aware, we are talking about roughly the same subject. Will move into a second panel which we will debate and discuss so
Floor. The senate will take up the cr in the coming week. Panel and they say the fight is the same as last year because which is not great news because we ended up with a 35 day shutdown. They do not have a strategy of how they are going to deal with the border wall. That was the main issue that spurred the government into a shut down through november and january of this year. Then there are the other tricky issue like the detention beds and the Enforcement Powers that ice agencies have. These are things that democrats are really riled up about given the administrations aggressive actions on immigration all through the summer. Democrats are ready to go to the mat on this. Republicans are also hearing from trump on this. We are staring down the same fight as we did last year. Bill the senate will take up the continuing resolution. Back on the house floor, they are looking at the southern border. You point out the democratic bills by Lauren Underwood of illinois and Veronica Escobar of t
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