Russia unfortunately even sometimes countries that we are more close to so germany is in the central position geographically in europe its the most important economy we are not you know projecting military problem so we are we need to rely on the willingness and ability to apply by those rules and thats what we are trying so you cannot cut off the dialogue with russia but you need to be very clear in that and thats what we are lets talk about another country where you have a lot of dialogue we have to mention lets go to china now also in the news for its continued infringement of human rights and rule of law similar to russia in a speech before the parliament on september 10th you said the following human rights are a central element of our china policy hows that working out for the prodemocracy protesters in hong kong what we are. And i hope that im not going no its not im not intending to to criticize any of our European Partners but to really think sometimes. We need as a government
Should the military be used for domestic unrest such as the recent protests . Should the u. S. Be terminating many of our arms control treaties and even contemplating resuming Nuclear Testing . Should the names of Confederate Military leaders be removed from u. S. Military bases and other statue be removed from our Public Places . To address these questions and many more, today we will have a unique conversation between two recent secretaries of defense, doctor robert gates and general james mattis. As a bipartisan secretary of defense, secretary robert gates served under president george w. Bush and barack obama. He is the author of a new book, exercise of power americas failures, successes and a new path forward in the post cold war world. Doctor gates is an officer in the u. S. Air force and spent 27 years in the cia. He served as the cia director and became the first career officer in cia history to move from entrylevel employee to head the agency. Secretary gates served as a membe
Geostrategic challenge with the rise of china poses for the United States, not just today but in the future. The communist party led people were public of china through unfair trade practices, intellectual property theft, market manipulation and very prominently, in my view, nonreciprocal treatment, not just in the economic round but in many realms i has been a fore in the Global Economy that undercuts the resiliency and strength of the u. S. Economy. China has been one of the worlds fastestgrowing economies averaging close to 10 growth from 19792015. In 2014 china overtook the United States ass the Worlds Largest economy purchasing power parity basis according to the International Monetary fund. I believe that there is a strong eipartisan interest hopefully we will see that today in establishing a longterm economic United States strategy with our allies that focuses on reciprocity, intellectual property theft, and ultimately, from the United States perspective out competing the chines
Applause to the director of the center. [applause] i know folks at home cannot see what is around you. What is around you is the most stunning backdrop and set up you can imagine. Ryan, scottwork of liberty team and the Technical Team as been just fantastic. We had a great production. I just want to say a special thanks to the founders of the center, president jerry falwell, jr. And charlie kirk. That is the math. We are waiting a little bit. We have tom cotton coming up momentarily. We have a traffic grid issue. He will be with us momentarily. Up. Nted to tee steve bannon has always emphasized action. We have four tremendous speeches coming out of the government, attorney general barr, Vice President pence, secretary of state mike pompeo. I wanted to get steves perspective. It is remarkable to me. Cnn, the left media is not covering china. Why is that . It goes against their narrative and the Mainstream Media as been one of the social aspects of this decline of the judeochristian west
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