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
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Yesterday. 4. 23 . If you check out the price of copper, copper ended at the highest settlement since october of last year. This morning, it is off 1 . Watching that copper closely because it is a signal of expectations for global manufacturing. Japan central bank raising rates for the First Time Since 2007 and ending the other easing measures. This is the longest easing from any central bank. They were the lfirst to go in ad the last to come out of the easing. It raised the rate to 0. 1 . That was up from negative to 0. 1 . The yen trading at the lowest level of the year compared to the dollar. The central bank abolishing the yield curve control policy for japanese sovereign bonds. The central bank said it planned to purchase government bonds worth broadly the same amount as before. It will scale back asset purchases and qt. It is not really aggressive if you are talking about zero to 0. 1 . Backing away from the eightyear experiment. Experiments are not eight years. The new normal. I
and two teachers dead. this comes as questions mounted about information on the shooting and how the police responded. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2022] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] we are back with john o neill and sarah winnie, co-authors of the new book, dances with the devil. we are happy to have you with us this morning. apparel, home decor and accessories. every purchase helps support our nonprofit operations. shop now or anytime at c-span shop.org. washington journal continues. host: we are back with john o neill and sarah wynne. co-authors of the new book, the dancer and the devil. we are so happy to have you with us this morning. can you tell us how this book came about? why did you write this book and why now? guest: on this memorial day, i would like to remember my friends at the naval academy and a lot of other friends who gave the
The front line for nine years, and on the front line. And for nine years, different brigades , different defenders of avdiyivka, gave their lives and their health so that the moscow foot of the occupier did not set foot on the ukrainian avdiyivka, if it did, it was without heads in the orichova region, the Defense Forces of ukraine continue to move forward. Our bridgehead in this area is a direct threat to tokmak, one of the Logistics Centers between mariupol and crimea, to slow down our advance, the russians are trying to counterattack on the flanks. The classic tactic is to cut off the ridge. The enemy has concentrated many of its units there, in particular, units of at least four airborne divisions, in particular the same pskov paratrooper division, which are quite actively opposing the ukrainian Defense Forces. And the same in the takman direction the situation on the battlefield will directly depend on ukraines resource capabilities. Our tactics work in our favor, the ssu simply c