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By NU Office of Communications February 17, 2021 NORTHFIELD, Vt. — Norwich University’s John and Mary Frances Patton Peace & War Center will host the second Peace and War Summit, which will address the escalating U.S.-China rivalry in 11 virtual sessions held over seven weeks from March 3 to April 21. The summit will highlight military/security, economic, cyber and technological challenges and follows Norwich’s tradition of hosting leading scholars and policy experts to examine significant international issues, recommend solutions and educate future leaders through studen...

Moment. we will bring that the moment it happens. >> the meeting in vienna was about syria, how to try to bring that to an end. maybe this g20 in italia will have really focused everybody's minds. and he is about to come and talk to the press in a second. what's interesting is that he will be having a national security conference with the president by secure video before he goes to turkey. of course, the french president francois hollande was amongst the g20 leaders. he immediately announced he would not be going. instead he is sending his representative. >> our senior white house corresponden...

All right. happening right now, president obama meeting with his national security council to discuss the terror attacks right here in paris. 129 people killed, 352 injured. we just learned that moments ago from the paris prosecutor. very shortly, president obama departs washington and will travel to turkey, where he will attend a g-20 summit. our senior white house correspondent, jim acosta, he is there in turkey. he joins us now live. jim, i manage the tenor of this meeting, not to mention the subject matter to discuss will be drastically different now. >> reporter: that's right, john. this ...

This attack not just in paris on the french but an attack on freedom and liberty everywhere. i want to check with jim acosta right now. president obama on his way to a big meeting. the g-20 right now. he had a meeting of the national security council before he left. jim accosta with us on the phone from turkey where the meeting will take place. jim, what do you know? >> reporter: they'll be holding a national security council meeting at the white house before he leaves for the g-20 summit. i'm in turkey and just arrived on the ground. security precautions are immense. took us a good 45 minutes...

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