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As the Ukraine crisis heats up, its impact on the US effort to re-balance to Asia, specifically against China, has arisen. The consensus is that, for the most part, a renewed US focus on European security will pull US resources and policy-maker attention away from Asia and back toward Europe. In a similar manner, the […]
Joining me now is dr vali aslam — associate professor in asian security studies at the university of bath. a warm welcome to the programme. i've done a lot of reading and had a look at what the world bank has said, what the world bank has said, what the imf has said and others about the outlook for the afghan economy. it's very gloomy, isn't it? give us your picture. gloomy, isn't it? give us your icture. gloomy, isn't it? give us your icture, ., gloomy, isn't it? give us your icture. ., , ., picture. the outlook is not very positive. _ picture. the outlook is not very positive. in _ picture...
Take away from the week, jackie? we saw washington working in some instances, right? >> right. >> we saw this bipartisan, 17 republicans joining senate democrats to move this thing forward, including, by the way, mitch mcconnell. we saw agreement also bipartisan ship on the bill wednesday to approve about $2 billion in capitol hill security spending. are these one-offs? are these anomalies because of what they are and not an indication of maybe biden's wish for government working together coming true? >> i do think what we're talking about, the actual bills are ideas at this point. are differe...
The payroll of the capital police, their salary funding could run out as early as august. they had to pay so much overtime because of the security bhands and what also happened is politics. the house of representatives passed a massive supplemental security spending bill about a month ago and it is stuck in the senate. included in that bill is 31 million of additional funds for additional police salaries. this pressure coming out today is meant to get the senate on board to get the senate moving so they can pass the security supplemental funding so they can pay their people, craig. >> leann, t...
Security spending across Australia and New Zealand has continued to grow, increasing 10-20% over what was budgeted last year, according to a new report ...