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Good day. Welcome to the Hudson Institute. Im todd linberg, a seen the yor fe senior fellow here. Were having a conversation today with peter burkowitz, the developer of planning at the state department. Peter is on leave from the stanford university, peters undergraduated years, he has an m. A. In philosophy from the Hebrew University in jerusalem, and then a j. D. And ph. D. From yale. And so hes obviously rather overqualified for any position he finds himself in. But were glad hes able to join us today to talk about this report. The elements of the china challenge. This is a report by the policy planning staff in the office of the secretary of state. Ill just say a word or two about that office. The policy planning staff is an office within the secretarys office. So it is tasked principally by the secretary to undertake such research and policy planning, indeed, as he ....
Exploded as soon as this news came about this potential vaccine by pfizer traders just jumped in head 1st into this market and weve really seen the dow it really record levels now in the markets been open about 90 minutes the main sectors that are benefiting the most travel Leisure Hospitality restaurants all things that have really suffered a lot in the last 99 to 12 months president elect joe biden has announced his transitional covert 19 team he says tackling the pandemic will be one of his 4 big priorities as the u. S. Continues to report a record daily number of infections. A new round of talks on libya is underway in the tunisian capital 75. 00 libyan representatives have been invited symbolizing the 75th anniversary of the United Nations which is leading the discussions both sides announced a permanent cease fire which has largely held. Officials in the disputed r ....
To do here. I have always been reluctant to say this truly could be one of the most important things we as members of this committee do. The world is experiencing today and what the american and as is americas face is one of the most significant challenges that a lot of us will face in our lifetime. The bad news, the really bad news is that its entirely possible that it will happen again. I say this of course because the experts tell us that this virus that made the leap from one species to another can very easily happen again and if there are 2000 of these viruses out there you have no idea what they can do when they get into a human being. Thats what experts and scientists tell us have identified within their branch about 2000 different viruses. Having said that we need to look forward and i want to stress what im trying to do with this and what about all of us are trying to do, to look forward. There are a lot of hearings going on and a lot of hyperbowl going on and a lot of blame a ....
The Global Economy im joined now by u. S. And lee in new york she is author of well chinas economy collapse and what the u. S. Can learn from china and in ankara we prostitute. Learned he is a professor of econometrics as well as the president of the foundation for International Economic research and. Roles in effect i mean you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it once youre going to annan in new york as i said in my introduction and it appears that the pandemic is receding and globally although individual countries still have some most serious issues but now is coming in the next phase of this crisis and figuring out the damage that has been incurred and how to move forward and you know in preparing for this program there are all wild estimations out there. You know b l the you all of that. There seems to be no consensus though there seems to be it ....