Good afternoon. Im pete. Daily ceo and publisher of the Naval Institute and i our audience both here in the jack Taylor Centers lockheed auditorium and our remote audience whos joining us online. And so for those who are here, i just ask you to stand for a minute. And lets say the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under god individual liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Special shout out to admiral katcher, whos the acting superintendent and one of our Naval Institute press authors. This is a moment todays event demonstrates what the Naval Institute is all about. Were an open, independent, Nonpartisan Forum that dares to read things, speak and write. The institute its inception 150 years ago. Its coming up the anniversary in just a couple of weeks. Supports our men and women in the sea services and has always championed their viewpoints, their exchange of ideas. The title of toda
Good afternoon. Im pete. Daily ceo and publisher of the Naval Institute and i our audience both here in the jack Taylor Centers lockheed auditorium and our remote audience whos joining us online. And so for those who are here, i just ask you to stand for a minute. And lets say the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under god individual liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Special shout out to admiral katcher, whos the acting superintendent and one of our Naval Institute press authors. This is a moment todays event demonstrates what the Naval Institute is all about. Were an open, independent, Nonpartisan Forum that dares to read things, speak and write. The institute its inception 150 years ago. Its coming up the anniversary in just a couple of weeks. Supports our men and women in the sea services and has always championed their viewpoints, their exchange of ideas. The title of toda
Correspond and former beijing bureau chief for the new york times. Im joining today seoul. Its my to introduce susan shirk professor and head of the 21st Century China Center at the university of california, san diego. Were here to celebrate and discuss her new book, overreach how. China derailed its peaceful rise, i have to say, if you want to understand the complexities of whats going on in china today and whats going on between beijing and washington, overreach is the place to start. Susan has been a student of china, a professor teaches about china and a Government Official who made policy about china as Deputy Assistant secretary of at the state department. I can personally attest to her role in government in 1999. We were both passengers on the government plane to china. I was a lawyer in the back of the plane. She was up front advising albright, the secretary of state, on what to do and what to say. When we landed in beijing. She has written over at a particularly important mome
here at the bbc s headquarters in central london for unspun world. this week how many casualties has russia suffered in its war against ukraine, and how do we find out? we know names of 25,560 russian fighters who died fighting in ukraine, and we get information from more than 65 cemeteries all over russia. xijinping, china s leader, at 70. is he turning into an emperor? the status he s got now, he is either a king or emperor. he s the supreme leader. and how bad is the world s climate crisis, really? enough to keep the people in the know awake at night? the world is changing rapidly. we are changing it. but we re fighting back as well, and we re taking some of those steps. and a lot of the days, i m optimistic. vladimir putin, we re told, was promised that his invasion of ukraine would be over and done with by lastjuly a year ago, that is. who would have thought that ukraine would put up such a fight? and who would have thought that nato would have held together in the w
we are changing it. but we re fighting back as well, and we re taking some of those steps. and a lot of the days, i m optimistic. vladimir putin, we re told, was promised that his invasion of ukraine would be over and done with by lastjuly a year ago, that is. who would have thought that ukraine would put up such a fight? and who would have thought that nato would have held together in the way it has? not mr putin, clearly. so what about the battlefield casualties which russia s sustained? the bbc s russian service has been carrying out a thorough investigation into this, putting names to as many of the dead as they can. olga ivshina, senior correspondent for the bbc russia service, has headed the investigation. so currently, we know names of 25,560 russian fighters who died fighting in ukraine. i say fighters, because it s important. not all of them are russian soldiers. some of them were recruited by notorious wagner private military company. others were prisoners assigne