Our principal rival in that race is china. As far as simply the facts, the quantum spy is a novel that imagines the characters involved, the battle to see who can steal the other secrets about world changing technology, principally the story of my hero, american of chinese descent who was a cia officer, asked to penetrate the Chinese Intelligence Service and in the process learns about himself and the cia and how the world works shake him to his foundations and we see in this novel how the Chinese Intelligence Service not so familiar to readers of spy fiction, we have been with carla, the russians by world is your to us so one of the pleasures for me if it takes us into the world of state security, very secretive Chinese Intelligence Agency that is the principal antagonist in this book. Host how much of it is true . I always say in the prefaces to my books they exist in an imagined world, if you take any book i write and think it is a recipe for how to bake a cake you are going to end
Thank you very much for joining us, i am paul saunders, executive director, pleased to see such a big group in the middle of august in washington. The traffic led me to think the city was depopulated that it clearly demonstrates otherwise and we appreciate you taking the time to be with us. We have interesting conversation about the new us sanctions on russia, and highly experienced speakers will give us some perspective and quite grateful to them for taking their time to be with us. Tomy right, dan russell, the president and ceo of the us russia business council. Dan is a former career diplomat, Deputy Assistant secretary of state responsible for russia, ukraine, belarus, arms control and other matters. During the previous administration, the Obama Administration, deputy chief at the us embassy in moscow in dan. To the left is george beebe, senior director for director for intelligence programs at the center of the nassau interest, george was career Us Intelligence professional, the r
Two attackers stabbed and shot people on a bus before one of those attackers was killed and the other captured. At about the same time, another attack at a bus stop in another part of the city. That killed at least one person before that attacker was shot and killed by the police. And the violence there in jerusalem continues today. Lets get to iran. That countrys parliament. The voter to support the nuclear deal. If you look closely in this video, youre going to see it in a moment. If you look closely, youll see members of the Iranian Parliament laughing and approving the deal. And selfinspections of Nuclear Facilities and gives them billions of dollars. More with that on our military strategist chris harmon, in ten minutes. They think they won. A tripledigit loss for the dow industrials. Were coming off seven straight gains. Of course, we ask the constant question, the dow closing at 171, will we hit 18k by the end of the year . Well answer the question, we promise. Look at twitter,
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Until everything is agreed. The practical needs are certainly an element of consideration, a comprehensive agreement, but so are our concerns about their ability to have Nuclear Weapons, which is prairie that they not obtain a Nuclear Weapon. And so whenever the final agreement is, that is the assurance that is most of concern to us. I appreciate that. Again, if they build ten new Nuclear Power plants, it would be a vast and rich a program that would have to have. Just the complications of monitoring such a program would be exponentially greater, and i just think that we have to keep that on in our mind because that is how they would actually crack this inspections regime in the years ahead, even if we got a comprehensive agreement. Finally, since the november agreement have you seen signs of an uptick in the iran support for proxies and allies around the middle east . Do you have reason to believe that iranians feel they now have greater leeway to intervene more aggressively in the re