So much for coming on this incredibly dreary night. So cheers to you all for braving it. I think that especially in the pen or whatever were in right now, it feels like the. Its a lot easier to decide not go to something than it might have been before. So cheers to all of you. Im torie bosch and im the editor of future tense, which is a Longstanding Partnership of new america. Arizona state university, slate magazine. And what we do, we look at the intersection of technology, policy and society. We have a channel slate and its up to the slate team here at slate. Com slash future tense. We cover the future and historically we have live events course. Theyve mostly been online for the past two years. So this is of our very first inperson events and its really wonderful to be back here at new america. Were here tonight. Talk about a book i edited for Princeton University press called are not expected to understand this. How six lines of code change the world. Its made up of 26 essays by t
Appropriations committee will please come to order. We are here today to discuss the u. S. China relationship and the investments that we need to keep our nations secure, competitive, strong, and maintain our leadership on the world stage. Let me make clear, from the outset, when we talk about competing against china, and countering chinese influence, we are talking about competing against its government, not the Chinese People or the millions of Chinese Americans who helped make our country great. I am great secretary austin, blinken, and raimondo here to discuss the all of government approach that we need to meet this challenge. This is our first full committee hearing, i do want to thank a vice chair collins, as well as our chairs and Ranking Members testers, coons, shaheen, tester, and moran. For working on us with this topic and others that every member cares about. I want to thank all of my colleagues with their work in the recent weeks to jumpstart the appropriation process. And
Stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the government of afghanistan confirmed today it has opened direct talks with the taliban. Its their first, formal face toface encounter since a u. S. Coalition ousted the taliban from power in 2001. Afghan president ashraf ghani said the goal is to change this meeting into a process of continuing talks. Officials said the talks are taking place in pakistans capital city, islamabad. Ifill u. S. Strategy to defeat the Islamic State came in for heavy criticism today from senate republicans. John mccain, chairing the Armed Services committee, challenged the president s policies on isis at a hearing. There is no compelling reason to believe that anything we are doing currently
Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the government of afghanistan confirmed today it has opened direct talks with the taliban. Its their first, formal face toface encounter since a u. S. Coalition ousted the taliban from power in 2001. Afghan president ashraf ghani said the goal is to change this meeting into a process of continuing talks. Officials said the talks are taking place in pakistans capital city, islamabad. Ifill u. S. Strategy to defeat the Islamic State came in for heavy criticism today from senate republicans. John mccain, chairing the Armed Services committee, challenged the president s policies on isis at a hearing. There is no compelling reason to believe that anything we are doing currently will be sufficient to achieve the president s l
Try to discuss chinese behavior as more assertive. I think the taiwanese perception or analysis about the extra motivations behavior of china, whether it has become more assertive or a transitional period of a new status as a major power or whether its the individual leadership or whether its a certain role played by citizens. More discussions in taiwan if you want to put in the context about cheneys behavior. With that, we please join me and thinking professor tsekang leng. [applause] and thank you all for coming very much. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] saturday march the 10th 10th anniversary of hurricane katrina. Today we feature pulitzer prizewinning journalist Ronnie Greene on his boat, tranfour it examines the case of six unarmed citizens shot after in katrina. They told us they would take us to shelters where they could get help and get the seniors to help good they loaded us up on this military trucks. Then they declared the city of new orleans and Jeffers