Your question. Think you, everyone. Thank you, everyone. Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for being here in thank you to the several hundred people joining us virtually as well. And president of the council on Foreign Relations. Today is a rare occasion because we are joined not by one, not by two but by three ambassadors. As a former ambassador, i can tell you how ambassadors time is how valuable ambassadors time is. We are honored the three have agreed to be with us today. All of our panelists today. The ambassador from france, the ambassador from singapore, ambassador from australia on the screen. They know china exceedingly well from prior experiences. Ambassador rudd spent the last eight years at the asia society looking enviously at the council on Foreign Relations across the street. [laughter] comes to washington after having served as Prime Minister and foreign minister and a longtime china expert. Indeed, during covid, ambassador rudd decided to go back to school and get h
Next a discussion about the political future and chinas military modernization with policy experts from the broking institution and at the German Marshall Fund. The panel also talks about the tension between taiwan and china and the probability of the u. S. Going to war with china over taiwan. Welcome everyone. Im Suzanne Maloney Vice President and director of the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution and im delighted to welcome you to todays event marking the release of an important new book titled u. S. Taiwan relations with chinas challenge lead to a crisis. It is a great honor to help launch such a profoundly important to study of the u. S. Taiwan relations and to celebrate its truly impressive coauthors, ryan and richard bush who are my colleagues here at brookings and Bonnie Glaser of the German Marshall Fund. I want to congratulate them on the publication of this book. Growing concerns about chinas intentions and plans prompted an enormous amount of policy attentio
The most stalemate situation for the Ukrainian Armed forces is in poroskovievka, there is the seventyninth a separate air assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed forces requires evacuation. Ukrainian militants report that due to the fact that a significant part of the reserves from this direction have been transferred to volchansk, it is now impossible to defend the settlement due to the numerical superiority of Russian Troops. The ratio of the figure is unprecedented in the ratio of 20 one. After the liberation of paraskovievka , konstantinovka, the most important bandera outpost, will be under attack, the loss of which will create another threat of a collapse of the front. Enemy resources continue to sound the alarm on kharkov direction, where the russian Army Launched a new offensive. We are talking about the offensive of a group of troops to the north from the direction of the village of zelenoe, which is located right at the border between two current directions the offensive of li
Had more than 300 Production Units of workshops, factories, and important production centers, which unfortunately were destroyed, and in this trip, we have seen that more than 300 units have been revived, and this revival of these factories is itself a source of employment. It has provided many. Head of khorasan Crisis Management, razavi, in connection with the 8 am news of khabar network , explaining the process. The last aid to the flood victims said seven people died in this incident and 3 people are still missing. By calling Operational Forces from various agencies, the mashhad fire organization, mashhad municipality, tell them that the red crescent society, the Islamic Revolutionary guard corps, and other organizations of alhamdulillah pilgrimage have solved most of their problems, the blockages have been fixed, and there is one remaining point , especially this one. The revolution will probably take some time in the region due to the very significant amount that has been accumula
Thanks very much for joining us this morning. Im maria bartiromo. Hope youre having a good monday morning, its monday, april 29, 7 00 a. M. On the east coast. Time for the hot topic of the hour. President biden taking plenty of jabs a at President Trump and the press during the white house Correspondents Dinner saturday night. Biden called on journalists to quote rise up to the seriousness of the moment and ignore the polls. Watch this. The defeated former president made no secret on his attack on the democracy. Im not asking you to take sides. Im asking you to rise up to the seriousness of the moment. Move past the horse race numbers, the got ya moments and distractions, the side shows, that have come to dominate and oversensationalize our politics, focus on whats actually at stake. I think in your hearts you know whats at stake. Id like to make a toast. To a free press. Maria free press. Free press with direction from the white house, liz. Yeah. Of course he wants them to take sides,