Next a discussion about the political future and chinas military modernization with policy experts from the broking institution and at the German Marshall Fund. The panel also talks about the tension between taiwan and china and the probability of the u. S. Going to war with china over taiwan. Welcome everyone. Im Suzanne Maloney Vice President and director of the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution and im delighted to welcome you to todays event marking the release of an important new book titled u. S. Taiwan relations with chinas challenge lead to a crisis. It is a great honor to help launch such a profoundly important to study of the u. S. Taiwan relations and to celebrate its truly impressive coauthors, ryan and richard bush who are my colleagues here at brookings and Bonnie Glaser of the German Marshall Fund. I want to congratulate them on the publication of this book. Growing concerns about chinas intentions and plans prompted an enormous amount of policy attentio
Along with the director what our options might be as we proceed forward. This is something i would recommend all of the members that they become educated in on a periodic basis. Because this is not the end of Technology Advances and therefore this is not the last challenge were going to be faced with from a technology standpoint. Senator langford. Thank you mr. Chairman and you are right, this is not the last one this is the latest Technology Battle were dealing with. George comey thank you for your work and pass on to the folks that work some very long hours leading up to july the 4th our appreciation for what they did for the nation and the citizens of my state and people around the country. We do appreciate their work very much and you have a terrific team. The challenge we face on this is not only on the Technology Side and dealing with terrorism, it is the benefit gained from this. I would say the folks at opm would be glad that touk about to talk about encryption if they would ha
As one of those District Centers is taken over within hours the Afghan Security forces are taking it back. They have the ability now, the capability to react much quicker, to move forces all around the country to go back and take over those District Centers. I think thats a sign of progress as they move forward. Again, they have technology, they have the people they have the training. I think the difference this fighting season is getting the right leadership in place, holding the leaders accountable for the welfare of soldiers and police. And then building the moral of the folk as they continue to take the offensive. Theyre very defensive in nature. 80 of the Afghan Security forces are on check points and youre vulnerable to attacks. Thats where theyre taking a lot of their losses on the small check points. Afghan local police were designed to be the guardian tofs village. Theyre supposed to guard that village. But theyve employed them five kilometer, 10 kilometers outside of the vill
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Ink they would ever have expected. Their front door on high street still has the markings where police fingerprinted for evidence after shannon came home friday morning and noticed the door wide open. I thought my son was home. I continued in and found they had ransacked the place. Cherise thinking intruders could still be in the house, shannon grabbed the kitchen but the intruders had already left. Net nick received a frantic call and came right home. Breaking into the house in broad daylight. Cherise the thieves made off with an xbox 360 and a guitar. They did not get far. The officer responded. Across a construction worker who said he had seen some people leaving the area. Cherise from there, two of the teenagers were caught. What is most shocking is that this happened in broad daylight when anyone could have seen the burglars. They want their neighbors to take more precautions and say they will be doing the same. We decided tonight to put in some security systems. To carry. Cherise