Good morning. Thanks for your patience director of the Strategy Group yen to welcome to this session on american in goal leadership first i want to take they thank you for giving us this base with our members of our Strategy Group let me tell you about our program this morning the Strategy Group is 35 years old with the notion that even in washington there could be an organization that is nonpartisan we have been resolutely nonpartisan over 35 years the founders meet annually in aspen in colorado to discuss and debate big ideas of americas Foreign Policy and our Global Leadership in each year we prepare a book for publication and this years book is available today that we are discussing today maintaining American Leadership. We will discuss the book this morning and with that global trade position about the impact of technology on the Global Military leadership continuing with a conversation i will moderate between former secretary of defense bill and Madeleine Albright about these iss
On how the administration views global threats. This is mr trumps first such strategy announcement. According to the briefing, the president will refer to russia and china as revisionist powers two countries that are aiming to change the status quo. He will revive America First, stressing us borders, and projecting us strength abroad and pursuing favourable trade policies. Hell also address protecting america from cyber attacks. But we expect little mention of russian meddling in the 2016 elections. And in a marked change to the 0bama administration, todays strategy is expected not to recognise Climate Change as a National Security threat. And joining us now is retired general david barno. Alsojon sopel, the north america editor. David barno, we hear this is going to lay out a four pillar strategy, defending the us homeland and prosperity, advancing americas influence around the world and peace through strength, the kind of thing almost any president could say . think it is a, nation c
Our im so tired and this is the news hour live from london coming up. America is in the game and america is going to do with President Trump outlines his new National Security strategy and browns china and russia the primary threat to u. S. Economic dominance. Goes against. The u. S. Veto the u. N. Security Council Resolution which rejects any change to the status of jerusalem. Several ram opposer is elected as the new leader of the a. N. C. And the likely successor us president of south africa. On train carriages fall onto a motorway in Washington State they say there have been multiple. One time hummus with all the days sport including australia are celebrating as the ashes returns down under after they beat england in the famous cricket context. U. S. President donald trump says he will assert american dominance abroad five boosting the economy and spending hundreds of billions of dollars modernizing the u. S. Military and a speech on National Security in washington d. C. The presid
Contributor john bolton again as we wait on the president of the United States and ambassador bolton, America First. What does that mean to you . Well, i think its critical that the president has made the point that you cannot have a strong american position in the World Without a strong domestic economy and i think the reverse is true too without a strong domestic economy you cant project American Power, so its no surprise given the priorities this president has had and i think from what weve been told in advance what the speech and the Broader National Security strategy will lay out will be essentially what he said beginning on the campaign trail and continuing through his statements. Its a policy that looks very much in the mainstream of republican Foreign Policy thinking. Its certainly not isolationist, and it recognizes the principal threats that we face on the strategic level from russia and china, and on the more immediate level from Nuclear Proliferation from the likes of iran
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