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Thank you, everyone for coming today, thrilled to be with these wonderful writers. We will be talking about the relationship between the United States and china and thinking about that under the paradigm of a second cold war whether thats helpful or not helpful way of looking at that relationship. Let me tell you about the people up here. The author of the book we need new stories, ece temelkuran is a writer, a turkish novelist and journalist and grateful to have her here. Mohsin hamid is a novelist and author of many books. Its wonderful to have him here. And anne appelbaum, historian of the soviet union and the cold war, and her books include iron curtain, great to have you here. When we are done, you should get notecards at some point today and if you have any questions, pass them to the end of the island we will read those in the last halfhour of the event. I want to start with you, mohsin hamid. What do you think of this idea of a second cold war with china and specifically how it
A cease fire has come into effect in the besieged damascus suburb of east and go to the area held by groups loyal to Syrian Democratic forces has been a key Strategic Point in the war because of its close proximity to the capital four hundred thousand People Living in the area are suffering acute food and medicine shortages meanwhile the Syrian Opposition says it will boycott talks that russia is hosting in such a next week the decision came as the latest round of u. N. Meetings wrapped up in vienna without a major breakthrough this does have a plan return of some writing to refugees from bangladesh to me and my government leaders in myanmar nonce that Repatriation Centers in Rakhine State were open and ready to receive some of the refugees as of tuesday but across the border bangladesh Officials Say paperwork for the refugees is incomplete or remaining members of the usa gymnastics board have agreed to step down after former Team Doctor Larry Nasser was jailed for sexually abusing fem
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Inside the cold war the unprecedented died to this strategy and key documents of the cold war this should be interesting and historical discussion. On a similar note october october 23rd talking about the book nixon and europe on september 11 we will have the 11th commemoration and on november 7 the daughters of president george w. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush to talk about their book sisters first. And so now to our speaker douglas shown is one of the most influential Democratic Campaign consultants over 30 years his clients include Michael Blumberg and indiana governor procter and gamble and at t also he is a commentator on fox news as well he wrote a comprehensive book on nixons policies called the nixon effect. His new book is covering another presidency looking at Politics Today it is called the mayor cut in the age of trump. Fox news political analyst one williams said all Real Solutions for error people of all political stripes and how americas cando spirit can get back. [appl