Watch booktv this Labor Day Weekend on cspan2 and be sure to watch the all virtual 2020s National Book festival Live Saturday september 26 on booktv. Good afternoon. Im jane harman, the president and ceo, like me you are probably suffering from zoom 50. However, to in here. This is a very important event and im excited. This is one of the zooms im really looking forward to. Because we are celebrating a new book, an important book by our very own nina janke waits who has done stellar work at the Wilson Center disinformation fellow, the coolest title ever. Since last october. Before that she was a scholar with our institute on russia and ukraine and how to lose information war, russia, fake news and the future of congress. Its an amazing title and is essential reading for everyone on this call and zoom in all your friends. We remember russia Successful Campaign in 2016 to so distrust and confusion in years ahead of the president ial election but in order to win the information war as nin
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The chair of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on asia, the pacific, and nonproliferation provided an update on Global Cooperation during the coronavirus pandemic. California congressman ami bera talked about the council how countries can Work Together to address the pandemic. Minutes,e next 25 congressman bra and i will discuss the post covid world order, and then we are going to open up the conversations to questions from our members. Thank you for joining us today, congressman. Thank you for that introduction. Certainly i want to thank the council for this opportunity. When you look at the list of participants, there are a lot of people that we use for contact expertise. Im sure we will have a lively discussion. Lets get started. Since the outbreak of the covid debatec, a fascinating has emerged about the potential impact of the coronavirus on the global order. Some experts maintain the virus will have a transformative effect. Kissingere, dr. Henry has written the world will ne
Espionage, overseas pfizer and conducts National Security reviews. Selected about two years ago, almost two years ago to lead the Chinese Initiative at chineseto counter the persistent and aggressive economic espionage. Thats a lot of what we will talk about today. Prior to his service as the assistant attorney general, john was the Vice President and assistant attorney general counsel at boeing. You are the first generation, right . Is relatively new and you were there starting in 2006. So, a long career. Distinguished, and thank you for doing this. What we are going to do today is , john will talk for a few minutes. We will have a conversation, then we will turn to the audience. Get your questions ready. We will screen them, but we will be happy to entertain anything you want to ask. Me andks for having proposing that we do this. The National Security division has done a number of events, including our 10 Year Anniversary event in 2016. More recently, on this topic, earlier this year