Officials tell you what they believe you need to know. So they undermine your popularity. Part of russian president Vladimir Putins callin program. You can watch that online at cspan. Org. Search putin. We take you back to the allday forum on u. S. south korea relations hosted by the center for strategic and International Studies. They are getting back underway. Live coverage here on cspan3. Thank you for all the jobs that you have done over the past decade now. Probably seems like its going quickly. But for us journalists, i am a reporter at the Washington Post. Victor and the korea chair have been a valuable, valuable resource both, obviously, in the past few years, but before that. I was bugging victor and others in the program quite often. Maybe many times you didnt necessarily want to be bugged. But for terrific analysis and to help sort of walk me through whats happening. I wanted to take time out to thank the korea chair for that and congratulate you for such a successful ten ye
Attract tourists. Hello, we begin with the latest on the brewing tensions between north and south korea. It looks like theres a last minute attempt to mediate the dispute. Now large loudspeakers, ftc blare anticommunist propaganda. Harry fawcett is in jimgakkak. Harry, cease both sides are looking for a way out of this escalating tension. Reporter it does seem that way. Within the last hour or so we had a message from the south koreans president s office, announcing these talks for 6 00 p. M. Local time. For the ending of the loudspeaker broadcasting would pass at 5 00. An hour after that deadline was expected to take place. The pan munjong group, we have the head of the general Political Bureau of the Korean Peoples Army we have the head of the United Front Department which is the ministry which coordinates the relations between north and south korea, on the south side we have the head of the National Security office of the president s office and the unification minister here in south
Relationship between china and taiwan. From the Global Taiwan Institute this is just over hour. All right. Okay. Well good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the Global Taiwan Institute. My name is russell hsiao, im the executive director here at gti. Gti is a 501 c 3 thinktank dedicated to taiwan policy research and analysis. Our mission is to enhance the u. S. Taiwan relationship through public education. We undertake several major programs that include a weekly publication called the global taiwan with brief, where we invite experts to contribute timely articles. We also have a Seminar Series that you are all participating in today where we invite practitioners as well as scholars to focus on current developments related to policy issues that affect the u. S. Taiwan relationship. Coming up very shortly we will be hosting our inaugural annual symposium on september 14th and this is going to be our flagship event. Were expecting a large turnout of people within government as well as acad
[inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone, welcome to Carnegie Endowment for international peace. I think ive known just about everyone in the room one way or another and ill keep the introductions short. I handle the program here and its my opportunity on behalf of carnegie today to host a pair of panels that includes some of the people i admire the most in the field of contemporary china studies. We at carnegie and i think throughout the chinawatching community have had tremendous admiration for the leadership and the protection of the china leadership monitor, which is organized by professor alice miller at the Hoover Institution at stanford university. They have established a terrific record for hearing the facts as opposed to trends, feelings, things like that. So, whenever you want to touch base with reality i like to go online to the china leadership monitor and do precisely there. Today well give you a sample of writings in form of presentations working ahead in the 19th
Im grateful to doug paul for agreeing to host and set this thing up and the Carnegie Institution and alex taylor after all his logistical support. Im grateful also to michael and to alan for their contributions to the monitor from very early in its inception and im sorry that james was pulled away. He is a founding contributor still writes for us and would have been the guy to talk about the reconfer racing reconfigure racing. And im grateful to joe and jessica for agreeing to do these presentations. We hope to have barry here who has been a founding contributor on the chinese economy, but barry has back loaded his class to end of the week and kind rearrange this schedule so i regret he wasnt able to come. Im sure Everybody Knows who joe is. Professor at International Relations and politics at boston university. He is founding contributor to the china leadership monitor, retired from our roster, i dont know, couple years ago we were arguing about when that was walking over here. And im