billions, building infrastructure and empowering opportunity in communities big and small. charters connected us. charter communications suorts c-span as a public service, along wi these other television providers, giving you front row seat to democracy. >l politics of the chinese communist party. li it s at c-span do you get it straight from the source. no matter where you are from or where you stand on the issues c-span is america s network. unfiltered, unbiased, word for word if it happens here, or here, or here, or anywhere that matters, america is watching on c s band powered by cable. next a look at the internal politics of the chinese communist party and the future of china s role in public global relations. [indiscernible] good morning to those of you joining us here in washington, good afternoon and evening for those joining digitally across the world. i am suzanne maloney the vice president and director at brookings institution i am delighted to welcome you to
phone calls, facebook comments, text messages and tweets. next, a look at the internal politics of the chinese communist party in the future of china s role in global relations. litical information but only at the span do you get it s at c-span do you get it straight from the source. no matter where you are from or where you stand on the issues c-span is america s network. unfiltered, unbiased, word for word if it happens here, or here, or here, or anywhere that matters, america is watching on c s band powered by cable. next a look at the internal politics of the chinese communist party and the future of china s role in public global relations. [indiscernible] good morning to those of you joining us here in washington, good afternoon and evening for those joining digitally across the world. i am suzanne maloney the vice president and director at brookings institution i am delighted to welcome you to brookings deep expertise on china has been at the forefront of inform
the geopolitics of the russia-ukraine. this is c-span2. good afternoon and evening to those of you who may be joining us from other parts of the country or other parts of the world. i m suzanne maloney, i m vice-president and director of foreign policy here at brookings institution, on behalf of foreign policy and the talbot center for security and technology, i m truly delight today welcome you to the special event today. our first annual night forum on politics. this forum is named in honor of brookings phillip h knight and made possible through his gift to the foreign policy program. and the overarching goal of the phil knight gift is supporting essential research into international security, grand strategy, military affairs, american alliances, and security partnerships and trans national threats. we re deeply grateful to phil for making this ambitious effort possible and for enabling us to bring together a truly phenomenal group of scholars today to discuss u.s. grand
i m suzanne maloney, i m vice-president and director of foreign policy here at brookings institution, on behalf of foreign policy and the talbot center for security and technology, i m truly delight today welcome you to the special event today. our first annual night forum on politics. this forum is named in honor of brookings phillip h knight and made possible through his gift to the foreign policy program. and the overarching goal of the phil knight gift is supporting essential research into international security, grand strategy, military affairs, american alliances, and security partnerships and trans national threats. we re deeply grateful to phil for making this ambitious effort possible and for enabling us to bring together a truly phenomenal group of scholars today to discuss u.s. grand strategy and u.s. foreign policy at a time of heightened frictions among great powers and tremendous risk within the rules-based international order. it s hardly surprising that we cho
disaster worldwide. so of course i do not call for any interference in iraq and reject it, even if it is the united states but friends also should provide advice and support and should play a role in order to bring the parties closer together. they should support their friend when they are in trouble. i mean we need weapons. we need political stand. we need an economic support and the united states need iraq to be a stable country to be secure, to be able to produce energy, to be democratic. all these are american and iraqi interests alike. following the withdrawal of the american forces we felt that iraq was left on its own while it was not stable yet or balanced enough and was not yet able to completely move towards a transition to a strong state. this is why at this point the center of power is balanced and situation that is something we need today. the united states politically withdrew in the last few years and they started moving or shifting their attention away from ir