Its after words, about the limits of partnerships and the u. S. Russian relationships. Then at 10 00 p. M. , nsa spying and edward snowden. We wrap up the programming at 11 20 p. M. With will swift on the marriage of pat and richard nixon, that all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. Talking about chinas efforts to secure Natural Resources and Investment Opportunities around the world. And the impact it will have on everybody else. This is about an hour and 20 minutes. Good evening. Welcome to the World Affairs council, washington, dcs program with the authors, of a fascinating new book by all means necessary how chinas resource quest is changing the world. On behalf of the board of directors and the council its my pleasure welcome you here this evening. With us are elizabeth c economy and michael levi. She is currently the vice chair of the economic and sits on the board of the u. S. Center for sustainable development. She wrote, the river runs black, the environmental challenge to chi
Forget it. At 3 00 its like total gridlock. Now i live down in brunswick georgia, which is near st. Simons island, and yesterday all of the schools were closed, the bridges we were told to stay off the bridges, and todays brunswick news, they had pictures of sanders going over the bridges on checkle island. Host steve, i hate to cut you off but we are all out of time. Thanks for watching on washington journal. Well be back tomorrow at 7 00 eastern time. We want to bring you to the british Prime Minister david cameron, talking about syria iran and britains relationship with the United States. Were joining this in progress here on cspan. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] is it more than that . It is a lot more than that because what this National Security does, it brings the ministers, foreign its normally the secretary of state. We dont really allow, if we can avoid it, junior ministers in their place. I thin
By all means necessary how chinas resource quest is changing the world. I can heidi hsu on behalf of the board of directors and members of the killed so it is my pleasure to welcome you this evening. Overcast Elizabeth Economy id michael levi. Denied a senior fellow and director of Asian Studies currently the vice chair of the council on the future of china in sets of the border of the board for sustainable development. She runs the river runs flat and is published numerous articles including Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy. She received her m. D. From stanford and a ph. D. From university of michigan. Dat the senior fellow and director of the program on Energy Security and Climate Change for the council of Foreign Relations and previously resident fellow in the Foreign Policy studies at brookings and the director of the federation of American Science as Strategic Security projects. He is the author of the power surge in the battle for americas future on terrorism in the future of a
They went back to their homes they could be hurt in the crossfire, in the violence. In all my meetings, security was the number one topic of concern from cabinet ministers, to u. N. Leaders, to refugees, they all spoke of the need to restore a sense of law and order in the country. This is the number one message or one to bring to you today. Is that they were concerned about the violence. When i asked for fiji is why they had fled they all mentioned fear of attack and concern for their families whenn i asked refugees why they had fled. I cannot reiterate strongly enough the importance of u. S. Government support to the African Union stabilization in c. A. R. Of security is essential to creating conditions that will one day permit these one million uprooted people to return home. Meanwhile, the u. S. Government is committed to working with the International Community to provide assistance inside c. A. R. And in neighboring countries and structure are aid programs to enhance efforts to p
That pervades the entire country today. You and agencies and human rights organizations have estimated that over 600,000 have been displaced since the beginning of this rebellion in late 2012. Since december 2013 we agree that at least two dozen people been killed and another 100,000 have fled the country to us since december. We are particularly concerned that the imminent threat against muslim civilians has forced many to abandon their homes and communities and is seeking help from you in humanitarian agency, the African Union, and the french peacekeeping forces to relocate within the Central African republic or to neighboring countries. Just last weekend at the urging request of muslim civilians at the pk12 neighborhood peacekeeping force is transported over 1,002 and the people to towns in northern parts of the country as soon as those folks the parted the remaining local population attacked and destroyed the mosque and looted the homes of those who had not. This forced relocation