Required before we need reforms the u. N. Must continue to develop in order to muster the Global Challenges of the 21st century. As the un faces questions whether its still fit for purpose many feel its the right time to assess its strengths and shortcomings. Lets talk about those strengths and shortcomings we have our chief International Editor Richard Walker with us here in the studio richard and well be following the u. N. General assembly were expecting president trying to speak within the hour well be listening to that live but just hearing what we just saw there in that report where does the u. N. Stand now 75 years then yeah well its a mixed picture and i suppose as you would expect for any institution after such a long time. But i mean the overall picture and World Affairs is obviously looking pretty battered at the moment and i think that applies to the u. N. Especially. Obviously the purpose of the u. N. Is a vehicle for International Corporation is buzzword of multilateral i
Museum and memorial symposium. Good morning. Am not and it is my pleasure to welcome you, thank you for coming out to what i think is going to be an extraordinary couple of days as we came together and learning at this of speaking together and learning at this symposium. We are delighted to work with so many partners to create another exceptional opportunity for us. I hope it will take the time to spend time in the galleries. The special exhibition piece with 19 from 1919 fits with this piece. Preparing for the opening of a new exhibition, the vietnam war, 19451975. That opens next weekend, so this is a teaser. We invite those of you who are able to come back to memorial day weekend of year to come back and take in an exceptional exhibition that also provides the link sent helps people understand the enduring impact of the war and world war i. And how it contributed to the vietnam war. There iskes us is that a continuum and growing interest in world war i and its enduring impact. I am
Your own. This is where democracy lives. Cspan, powered by cable. U. S. To china Nicholas Burns talks about relations between the United States and china at an event hosted by the Brookings Institution in washington, d. C. This is a little over an hour and 10 minutes. [indiscernible chatter] good morning to all of those who have joan into joined us in the auditorium and online. Im the Vice President and director of Foreign Policy at brookings and im delighted to welcome you to our public event featuring a discussion with the honorable Nicholas Burns, u. S. Ambassador to the peoples republic of china. Ambassador burns and his Hardworking Team at the embassy are on the front lines of one of the most complex and consequential bilateral relationships for the United States. The u. S. Mission he leads includes Public Servants from 47 u. S. Government agencies and sub agencies. He oversees the embassy interactions with china on the full range of political, security, commercial, economic and c
Institution for a decade. One of our finest and most objective i think in scholarly think tanks in washington so im glad to be here. Glad to be with ryan and patricia will have a conversation and i will not bore you with a long speech. They have asked me to give a few introductory comments. I wanted to do that to set the stage of where i think we are in u. S. China relations. Ive just come back four days ago from beijing and its been a very active period in a relationship with the china and was with the president in woodside, California North of the stanford campus for his meeting with president xi jim king. I look at this and i think most people do come of the u. S. China relationship is the most consequential relationship the United States has now. Particularly we will have it for the next couple of decades. We are the two leading economies in the world and will be into the 20 40s and we are the two most powerful militaries in the world and certainly will be for the next two or three
During which time the issues of concern to both sides would be negotiated. The issues since the egyptians first came out with the initiative, that is the only part that has been contentious, what are the issues on the agenda . The ceasefire proposal that secretary kerry put in place was essentially an operationalization of the the egyptian initiative. In terms of the things that needed to be addressed. Issues of freedom of movement of people and goods in and out of gaza. Whether the fishermen could use the waters out to the limit. Whether the farmers could operate in what was referred to as the buffer zone. I believe that all of those questions are on the agenda in cairo, together with, although it is not mentioned in the latest version of the egyptian initiative, there is a general reference to security. I believe the israelis will bring to the table there demand that in return for conceding some of these issues, the egyptians themselves are going to have to agree to open, which they