Good afternoon. Good evening, good morning. Wherever you are in the world, welcome back to this session on democratic backsliding and u. S. Global leadership. We are honored to have former u. S. Secretary of state Madeleine Albright and the Senior Editor at politico. Welcome. Good morning. Very good to be with you. Absolutely. Pping and will be if we can kickoff with a question about the pandemic. It feels like authoritarians are getting a free pass to implement more of what they would like to impose on their citizens. From surveillance to military tactics. Reference tos a china. Feel free to correct me. Situation where many countries believe china has been handling this pandemic better than the u. S. What is the outlook there . Where do you think that leads china . Clearly, china made a huge mistake from the perspective of the United States and democracy from the beginning by keeping andrmation about the virus arresting those that were coming forward with the truth. Whats interesting
Very good to be with you. Absolutely. Pping and will be if we can kickoff with a question about the pandemic. It feels like authoritarians are getting a free pass to implement more of what they would like to impose on their citizens. From surveillance to military tactics. Reference tos a china. Feel free to correct me. Situation where many countries believe china has been handling this pandemic better than the u. S. What is the outlook there . Where do you think that leads china . Clearly, china made a huge mistake from the perspective of the United States and democracy from the beginning by keeping andrmation about the virus arresting those that were coming forward with the truth. Whats interesting is, this is the real paradox, clearly societies need to have some kind of rules when the virus has taken over. There are rules about social distancing and Wearing Masks and things. That means theres a role for government in terms of creating the rules. Making sure they are carried out. The
Her most recent book, and the books in which a program is based. Please join me in welcoming dr. Laura free. [applause] prof. Free good afternoon, thank you. I am really honored to be here. It is always a great thrill for a historian of suffrage to speak at seneca falls. I would like to acknowledge that we are on the traditional lands of the hope nations people and pay my respect to the elders, past and present. I would like to thank you for inviting me and setting up my visit. Thank you. I would like to recognize and thank the many park rangers who do the work of on the spot history and shared the special place with so many visitors. Finally i would like to thank , the park staff who maintain and clean the facilities and whose work goes unacknowledged. I am guessing that if you are here today you know who this is. This is Elizabeth Cady stanton. You see her with her longterm partner in activists work, susan b. Anthony. You probably already know a bit about her. You are probably aware
A focus on her work in the 1850s. Professor free cites numerous examples of Elizabeth Cady using racist rhetoric in her newspaper writings of the time, arguing that she used racism in an effort to attract allies in a fight to gain Voting Rights for white women only. The Womens Rights National Historical Park in seneca falls, new york is the host of this event. Prof. Free good afternoon, good afternoon, everyone. On behalf of the National Parks service it is my pleasure to welcome all of you here to your part. I want to ask that everyone silenced their cell phones so that our camera crew does not get disrupted. Introduceelight to you to our speaker dr. Laura free. Of associate professor history. Her work focuses on the interconnections of gender, race and politics in 19thcentury united states. Her most recent book, and the books in which a program is based. These join me in welcoming dr. Laura free. [applause] prof. Free good afternoon, thank you. I am really honored to be here. It is a
Is nato still relevant cracks appear as the Worlds Largest military alliance but its 70th birthday and the Member States south of the differences and what could happen if they dont this is inside story. And welcome to the program. The worlds biggest military alliance is facing a crisis the United States canada and 10 european nations formed nato at the end of the 2nd world war to confront what they saw as riots from the soviet union now the biggest threats appear to be internal nato now boasts 29. 00 members and they are in london to mark the organizations birthday but recently the United States turkey and france have raised concerns about military spending and nato as well in general our diplomatic editor james bass explains for the next couple of days this is the man in the hot seat secretary general yens stoltenberg has the un enviable task of chairing a meeting of nato leaders at a time the alliance faces big challenges this gathering in london is supposed to mark nato 70th birthda