Experience serving under president s George W Bush and barack obama. This is 45 minutes. My name is steve, on behalf of the crown family, its my pleasure to welcome to you the econd annual distinguished lecture or u. S. Foreign policy. We hosted lecture former defense secretary jim audience front of an of 900 people, a situation that unthinkable today. The pandemic has transformed ociety and international relations, along with protests, there are fundamental questions americas Global Leadership, image, and power. These questions have elevated work of tance of the the Lester Crown Center on u. S. Policy and the Chicago Council on which i and my founded. This is a forum for a discussion f perspectives on the big global questions. It can be policy makers, military leaders and journalists and analysts on the council same time to discuss their insights and others. Lic the center produces original research to deepen our proposed ing of the solutions to critical global challenges including th
This may be where we can get cooperation with the russians. And the printers row lit fest continues. Up next, author david kalan talks about modern day philanthropy. Philanthropy. Good afternoon and welcome to the thinking tribune annual lit fest. Id like to. We have a grayhaired approval. I met him in downtown new york city literary regular parties and gatherings that use to invite people, fact brigades and phone brigades before the internet and knew him over the years and went on to work with him when running World Policy Institute and he was at the most National Think tank, we worked closely on a number of projects, so i had the pleasure to read his earlier books, the cheating culture, the moral center, he has written seven of them and i have always been impressed by david because he asks really hard questions. He comes up with an opinion but is very good about seeing both sides and trying to find where things come together and where we can come up with solutions. He is not an ideol
So, what do you do about it . Well, the only country that actually has influence with the North Koreans is probably china. But the chinese have always been more fearful of the collapse of the regime than of a nuclear regime. So theyve refused to tighten the screws on the North Koreans and they could do a lot. They could close the border. They could deny them fuel oil. The chinese could really hurt the regime. The chinese have to be convinced that they now have to do whatever it takes to stop this regime and when you hear the administration say, if you wont deal with the North Koreans, we will, thats the message that theyre sending. Now, the we will is kind of ugly because if you want to look at military options, youre looking at seoul, which is very vulnerable and very close to the border, to the doe militarized zone. The North Koreans could do a lot of damage, a lot of civilian casualties, very quickly in seoul. So the options are not very good. Its complicated by the new president in
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