My name is matthew goodman, i old the science chair year at csis. Welcome to our online viewers, we always have a good turnout online as well. Welcome to the event, building bridges, question mark, in u. S. China relations. This is brought to us with a kind sponsorship of the Carnegie Corporation of new york which has been a supporter of the dialog that lies behind this event which ill explain in just a second and ill introduce our terrific panel in a second and invite them up. First let me make a couple of administrative announcements. As usual, please silence your phones and if theres any kind of emergency, which is unlikely, weve never had that problem, just follow me. That are emergencies hears and at National Geographic one street down on m street. And i think that is all i need to say administratively. Let me just say that the actual narrow reason for this event is that were going to be rolling out a series, a collection of essays that have been written by u. S. And chinese schol
Imbedded as advisers because thats the only reason the iraqi army was 900,000 men in uniform on paper. 900,000. A couple of thousands guys took mosul, its absurd why, because we had no imbeds. The tribes could run home to mama because we werent there to shame them. The culture of region revolves around shame and honor. Youll run home to your tribe. So, we have to be a part of the solution, we have to sell the concept of a functioning iraq and we have to really jet sonned once and for all, its an arab saying, but the idea of enemy is the enemy is my friend is complete, complete hogwash when it comes to iran. The idea, that, you know, iran because theyre killing sunni extremists are our friends . You have to be smoking something and its not tobacco to believe that. Okay, we have a question over here. Yes, im nate madden with the 221st wonderfulson initiative. I wondering if the panel can speak more to this ideology dr. Gorka you spoke about how the narrative of Information Warfare that t
We have blegedegged and pleaded and nobody has listened to us. If you had to pay for all we pay for, the hospitals the tens of thousands of babies, all you have to do in this country is you walk over the line, you get someone pregnant, i cant leave these are american babies. Thats something we have to get rid of. I tell you, blacks should be the most upset about that. They should be the most upset. That was put in there to keep blacks safe. And i just went to my 50th reunion to get the party going. And they cant believe what theyre seeing. My friends i have so many hispanic friends. What am i supposed to call you mexican hispanics or we will be covering donald trump this weekend the live weekend event. Tell you more about that. We want to hear your thoughts on scott walker has he entered the race. Hes had two term governor. He won reelection last year in wisconsin. Athens, ohio, on our democrats line. Caller i cant believe i got through. Iate have to tell you the first time i got throu
Years after the war. And a congressional briefing on internet defamation lawsuits and their impact on freedom of speech. This aoefrbt the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies. It is 90 minutes. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to center for american progress. Were glad to see folks here on a rainy monday morning. Im Vice President for National Security and International Policy here. I would like to welcome our distinguished guests from shanghai. They have both managed to get to washington despite a typhoon that disrupted all air operations out of shanghai. So were extremely happy youre here safe and sound. We hope the jet lag wont keep you from raising strong arguments and lively discussions this morning. Back in february 2014, the china u. S. Change institution and Shanghai Institute neuer International Studies discussed a report on a new model for major power realizes. It stressed it needed to be more about avoiding conflict. They needed to look at forwardlooking actions and
Budgets. We had employees willing to give up compensation to meet this need of veterans in the community. Maybe some bonuses too. Miss walorski. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Mr. Secretary good to see you. Thanks for being here today. The problem that i dont understand with this, this is what i dont get, is that it seems like it keeps coming back to this issue of perception. You know you come today and you have your stats and your tables and your graphs and thoed kind of things and we over here, we want Solutions Just as badly as everybody else because were fighting for veterans in our district and fighting in a bipartisan matter and doing everything we can do legally through a legislative process but what weve been up to since you been here last is multiple hearings that go on every other day and look at the whistleblower retaliation, and systematic failures in denver and waste and fraud and abuse and ive been involved and every time your i. T. Chief has been here and we talked about this