we estimate at the africa center for strategic studies that four out of every five people killed by thener group are actually malian civilians. sami: we would hear from some of those countries they would point the finger back at the u.s.. just look at the outcome of the u.s military involvements in some parts of the world. iraq of course, an invasion not backed by in the u.n security council resolutions. how it ended in afghanistan, that the u.s military rule sometimes doesn't end in an improvement of the security or democratic institution situation in a country either. >> sure, i think that it's fair to try and pose it like that. i think though that you're talking about apples and oranges. the united states isn't intervening in the same kind of capacity in the sahel. in fact, it's there as a supporting partner to the nigerian government. and it's in that role that it's trying to enforce or reinforce the counter-insurgency efforts of niger. you know, political will and legitimate government are key ingredients to any effective counter-insurgency campaign, and that's why i think the nige

daniel eyes and go research fellow at the african center for strategic studies at the national defense university. and in a boucher, kabir adam, a managing director at beacon, consulting and enterprise security risk management and intelligence solutions provider in nigeria and the sa hell region one. welcome to all i could start with. could be a what do you think? prompted this visit by the u. s secretary of state. and thank you very much a night or 2 to be here for the diplomatic relationship between the jar and the united states has been one. but it has been quite stable and given the statements by like agree, lincoln for he, i'm to 5, the different transition that took place in the jar in 2001. now, difficulties of that difficult transition can only be understood if one looks at the neighboring state to new job places like molly chart as an example and, and more recently with where the same cycle but thought the outcome was build huge blues to democratic candidate within the country to, to that extent, new job in of the concrete managed social economy can political challenges, kabir

said something, there, that i talked when the soviet period, when i was in charge of the center for strategic studieser the council of ministers of the ussr yes, i talked there with such john pink. and so he said that if only germany began to unite with russia on the wreckage of the soviet union, yes, then it will be a nuclear war in europe , yes, but i can say much more about the leader of one of the large ones, well , understandable such an orientation is more sympathetic to us german parties. i was right in the building of the ervant, he said. so what about german. so what, i can build german socialism in two weeks in 2 weeks. i 'll take a few steps, and there will be socialism and what then, then what are you? you understand that then just military repressions, everything will end there, so he says instead of doing business, yes, and the new system in germany we will discuss the details of contracts, between hmm employer and worker said to me with a dull look, then looked and said that you have done that emphasize that this is a large figure is quite large. so, it's just there that it's all tight

all the time, there, that i talked when the soviet period, when i was in charge of the center for strategic studiesesentative of the ministers of the ussr yes, it was he who talked with such john rose, so he said that if only germany begins to unite with russia on the wreckage of the soviet union, yes, then it will be a nuclear war in europe , yes, but i can say much more about the leader of one of the large ones, well , such an orientation is more understandable to us, sympathetic to the german parties. i was told right in the building of the european parliament. so what about german. so what, i can in 2 weeks build socialism in germany in 2 weeks, i 'll take a few steps, and there will be socialism and what then, then what are you? you understand that then just military repression, this will all end, so he says instead of doing business, yes, and the new system in germany we will discuss the details of contracts, between hmm employers, he told me with a boring look, then he looked and said, what have you done, what have you done. and to emphasize that this is a large figure rather large. so, it's

according to a recent africa center for strategic studies analysis. last year alone, the consonant reported nearly 7000 attacks and 20000 casualties. and thus a 48 percent increase from the previous year of 2021. now the area had the hardest is the style region where an 8 year parsley intervention as only worsened the situation. less cross live now to the ferry that the sack senior research fellow at the burg institute for advanced studies. thanks very much for joining us this afternoon. now 1st of all, i just want to get your thoughts on what you think is behind this huge surge in jihad is violence and africa this year. then in broad turns, what we see is the unraveling of the various interventions approaches in what often emerged as regional conflicts or country config, but very, very localized and the response of what is usually frame quite erroneous lee as the international community, which in this case consist largely of the united states and france and in their own interventions in the struggles for what are the reasons we may have time to come?

army in ukraine is more than during the post -world war ii wars combined, the american center for strategic studies a year during the war in ukraine, at least 60,000 russian soldiers died. and together with the wounded, this number can reach up to 250,000. this includes military personnel of the russian special services , mercenaries of the wagner pvk and fighters of the so-called dpr and lpr. 180 people in afghanistan up to one and a half hundred and in ukraine this number is more than 5,000 . the authors of the report say that the war in ukraine has become a war of attrition. the society of the country is reacting to messages from the front, we will talk about this with my colleague oleg antonenko, who joins the broadcast, but according to the assessment of american experts about the losses in the war, they have not been confirmed, but this figure is impressive. official data about their front losses, well, none of the sides indicate but how many of the dead according to the data of the russian bbc service, which is almost the only one that calculates from open sources hello. yes , the russian bb

is ravaging africa according to a recent african center for strategic studies analysis. last year alone, the continent reported nearly 7000 attacks and 20000 casualties was the 22 percent increase in violence from the previous year 21. the area hit the hardest, is the sal region where an 8 year paris lead intervention as only de cherry to the situation. the cd research fellow, the johannesburg institute for advanced studies, says that france on us have destabilized africa. but the french prisons, in the 1st instance, was never in a, a morally or politically correct position. the french of never had been in africa in the 1st instance with colonialism. and certainly not in a so called post colonial africa. there is a definite infringement of the sovereignty of the continents different nations, and much of the interventions of these 2 countries, largely guys in france, a blatant bleach of international law. this interference in the internal affairs of other countries re untenable, as if there is one particular entity that is civilized and in and all the others are barbarian

he's a senior researcher at the center center for strategic studies enjoys. we are live from a man good to get you on the program so i can just get your initial reaction to what you're hearing about this agreement between saudi arabia and iran. thank you for having me. ah, this is very, very good news. good. oh, that tail would mean that their party is supported by their 2 sides would be more willing to compromise and read, share a power sharing agreement that will bring this a very unfortunate situation to an end. however, i have to question that it may be that, yeah, 2 sides will not, there apply their necessary pressure on their respective allies. and therefore, the war will, while the saudis will no longer be above the method that terminal do it, that civil war will continue or any other, another thing to worry about. but if i could just get in there, we'll, we'll talk about the, the issues of having just a moment, isn't just try to get those initial reactions from you, sir, because you're very well connected in your own right. with conversations with you

the hands of islam make militants who ravages africa as according to a recent african center for strategic studies analysis. last year alone, the continent reported nearly 7000 attacks and 20000 casualties. a 22 percent increase in violence from the previous year of 2021. the area hit the hardest as they saw how region where an 8th year paris lead intervention has only worse than the situation. a senior research fellow at the johannesburg institute for advanced studies phase from from the us have be stabilized africa with their neo colonial approach. but the trench prisons, in the 1st instance, was never in a morally or politically correct position. the french of never had been in africa in the 1st instance with colonialism, and certainly not in a so called postcolonial every time. there is a definite infringement of the sovereignty of the continents different nations. and much of the interventions of these 2 countries, largely there isn't in front of it in blatant a breach of international law. this interference in the internal affairs of other countries. it's really untenable. it's as if there i

that's according to a new report from the african center for strategic studies. last year alone, the continent reported $97000.00 the tax on $20000.00 casualties at 22 percent increase in violence from the previous year. the area, the hardest, is the saw how region where an a t a power is lead intervention as only worse and the situation. a senior research fellow at the johanna is burg institute for advanced studies say from some of us have be stabilized africa within neo colonial approach. but the french prisons, in the 1st instance, was never in a morally or politically correct position. the french of never had been in africa in the 1st instance with colonialism, and certainly not in the so called postcolonial every care. there is a definite, an infringement of the sovereignty of the continents different nations. and much of the interventions of these 2 countries largely there in front of it in britain, breach of international law. this interference in the integrated other country 3 and 10, little as if there is one particular entity that civilize and in and al

focus on the economy in joining us for that discussion is got kennedy with the center for strategic international studies senior is a advisor good morning and thank you for joining us what is the best way to think about the relationship economically the us hasat with china? >> we have a monster relationship alive the investments to be deeply integrated into supply chains and at the same time we are strategic competitors where we are facing we were international order to look like we are deeply integrated at the same time facing monumental political struggles we have to figure out how to walk and chew gum at the same time and collaborate and compete fairly but also deal with the national security implications to be so interwoven. >> they underlie every decision the united states makes when it comes to chain on —- china? >> those issues play a large role with us economic competitiveness and the employment picture and inflation as well as many different industries will go from autonomous vehicles to quantum to semi conductors and all of that has national security of locations you can have a conversation abo

what invite is chock financed by chinese institutional bank as a poll of the african center for strategic studiesare parts of the defense department. beijing is taking advantage of the void left by the withdrawal of western countries. are more hesitant to finance these projects they try to solve decided to invest in infrastructure. well, that we are in the war in the globalist. singapore writers, u.s. and china wage war over internet cables. started out as strictly business receives fiber-optic cables. these are critical and became bryant proxy war between the united states and china over technologies that could determine who achieves economic and military dominance for decades to come. no other, australia philippines discussed joint south china sea patrols to counter china's aggressive activities. during joint patrols in the south china sea and days after the southeast asian country home from the top of the united states the need to counter china's assertiveness of the strategic corner right tuesday the thumping coast guard aircraft flew over the south china sea met with hear more? the philippin

from the center for strategic studies. this is over an hour. [inaudible conversations] >> let's go ahead and get started. i towed told them to take chairs out and that was clearly a mistake. welcome to csis, for i hope the initial discussion of the biden-harris administration's national skiesh t-cyber security strategies. we're going to talk about the strategies and lays out a forward three questions to the dawn of cyber security. how to have the sector, ensure cyber security, and i'll note we'll be taking questions from the floor, if you hold your hand up someone should give you a pad and please try and write legibly, otherwise i'll mangle your questions. but we have two speakers here, kemba walden acting director, prior to the director, she was the principal director, cyber director. comes from microsoft digital crime unit and where she ran the ransomware program and long time dhs including at cisa. deep experience in the field. and joined by anne neuberger, deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor for emerging cy

though danielle, your guy is a senior researcher at the santa center for strategic studies. he's in our mind and he's with us life. so thank you very much. indeed for being with us on al jazeera, our correspondence estefan decker, whose at the conference in doha, was making the point that it is the trickle down of the funding. that is absolutely important in all of this. what difference will the proposals made at the conference here in doha actually have on the lives of people in yemen. for example. unfortunately, a man is not in a position to benefit from my foreign assistance at this time because it is the by, it's a dollars divided among a district. there i'm groups and these aren't groups are going to take whatever comes to earth or help the people, the attributes for themselves. what emphasis should there be there for and on that when it comes to conferences like this, because from what a you, i understand you're saying is that it's all very well promising the cash. but if you can't actually deliver the cash to the people who actually need it, then it's kind of point, po

johnny is a senior researcher, the sonata center for strategic studies. he thinks resolving conferences, the 1st step towards ending property in countries such as yemen. countries such as yemen that are either on the verge of collapse. they need more frequent attention to help them or return to my ability. i think than to measure community should make the effort to apply enough pressure on the parties that are either fighting or supporting the various fighting on groups to stop the war. and then that may be the condition of the people will improve. generally, people are living on below subsistence level and you know, saturdays will not get paid for the past few years for the past 7 years since the 2016. and that people are managing it because of the strong and sort of data t within the many society, but this cannot last for long according to the you and the losses. the economic losses from this war is a now over a $100000000000.00. and that the economy is now stretched to the limit. indonesia is building a new capital to replace jakarta. the government sa

joining us for this discussion is scott kennedy from center for strategic and international studies. good morning and tnks for joining us. whats the st way tthink abouthe relationshi ecomical that the u.s. has with china? guest: we have a monster relation, 750 billion in trade, investments, we are integrated with their supy chains. the same me, we are strategic competits where we are facing off with each other with what we want t intertionalrder to look le. we are deeply integrated but at the sa time we face monumental political stggles. we have to figure out how to collaborate, compete fairly but also deal wi the national security implications that come with it. host:he economic concerns unrlie every decision the united statemakes with chi? guest: ecomics tnational security. issueslay a large ro. we are worried aut u.s economic cpetitiveness. our employment picture, inflation as well as many different industries are going to go from autonomous vehicles and other tys of ai to quantum,emiconductors and all of that has national security implications. you can have a conversation about ch

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a fellow at the center for strategic and international studies told us about the perceived threat. >> ask five different politicians want a threat is annual get five different answers. for some of our more hawkish members of congress, the threat is that the chinese communist party is using tiktok as a vessel to spy on americans, spy on government officials, and to potentially target specific critics or target this information to the general population. now, we have not actually seen examples of the chinese communist party using tiktok for these purposes. we know that tiktok collects a lot of sensitive information from americans. we know the chinese government is interested in surveillance, propaganda more broadly, but we have just not seen specific examples of tiktok being used as a propaganda vessel or direct surveillance vessel so far. ben: you talk about the data that tiktok collects from users. tell us about what it is they are collecting, what they would possibly want to use that for. >> tiktok, like many mobile apps in the u.s collect very sensitive information from users. this

laura: let's get more on this from china scholar at the center for strategic and international studiesite what the white house is saying, don't you think there is a lot behind the scenes? >> i think it is certainly noticeable that comments by chine leader xi jinping, which came back to back, both directly criticizing a pretty severe turn in u.s. policy and posture that indicates beijing is willing to escalate its own rhetoric here and if we just put this in context, we just had a string of events which have seriously challenged the bilateral relationship, with the balloon, and now u.s. accusations over china providing weapons or ammunition to russia, and now this. so the bilateral relationship is not in a very good place right now. laura: when beijing says the u.s. has got to change course, what does it mean specifically, and is washington going to do it? >> beijing's litany of complaints to the united states is long, and if we had another hour of the program, i might be able to get through most of them. beijing's concern is the united states has now moved into a much more aggressive,

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-based center for strategic and international studies has reported a grim milestone. it estimates between 60,000 to 70,000 russians died or went missing over the last year. that's more than the combined number of all russians killed i any conflict since the end of world war ii. moscow's official number of combat deaths stands at just under 6,000, which it hasn't updated since last september. >>> foreign ministers from the quad nations of japan, the united states, australia and india agreed on the need for comprehensive and lasting peace in ukraine, in line with international law. they said use or threat of using nuclear weapons were inadmissible. the top diplomats met on friday in india. their one-hour meeting followed the group of 24 ministerial talks which ended on the previous day. their joint statement reaffirmed their stance against any unilateral attempt to change the status quo by force. they also confirmed they'll actively engage in international governmental negotiations on reforming the united nations security council. the ministers stressed the importance o

let's get more on this from mark i can see on a senior advisor with the center for strategic and international studies thinktank in the united states. thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us. we're hearing about wagner taking a so called tactical pause from the i s w. can you tell us what that means in this case, and whether you agree with that assessment? well, it certainly looks at that's the case of regular russian units have moved into the buck, mood area where wagner had been a prominent i think this pause is probably driven by 2 things. first, unders taken tremendous casualties and i think that their capabilities have been run down. the 2nd thing is, this may be the up away for the russian military and political establishment to reduce the prominence of wagner. early on, wagner claimed that it was more effective than the russian military and for goshen seemed to be setting himself up to take a senior position maybe as a minister of defense. i think this is an effort by the russians to reduce its influence in its visibility. indeed, it does seem as though in recent weeks, at the wa

let's talk to your fellow at the center for strategic and international studies.esearch focuses in on technology regulation. start with the most basic question, have you seen any evidence that tiktok does pose a security risk? >> the u.s. government has not publly revealed any direct evidence that the chinese government has accessed information directly from tiktok or control the algorithm to target americans. that said, we know that tiktok -- to be fair, many mobile apps, especially in the united states, which has a very under regulated data ecosystem, many apps collect similar information to tiktok. so tiktok is not the exception when it comes to data collection. we also know that the chinese government does have access to personal information that is stored within chinese borders. so it is a little bit unclear right now, just because we don't have all the evidence yet. that adds a degree of uncertainty to all of this. >> given the secretive nature of the chinese government, do you reckon we would ever really get all the evidence, and the suggestion that divestm

a public appeal for ammunition or mark a can san as a senior advisor with the center for strategic and international studies. thinktank in the united states. i asked him earlier if he agrees with the institute for the city of wars assessment. the wagner group is taking a so called tactical pause. well, it certainly looks at, that's the case of regular russian units have moved into the buck. mood area where wagner had been prominent, i think this pause is probably driven by 2 things. first, wagner is taken tremendous casualties and i think that their capabilities have been run down. the 2nd thing is this may be the away for the russian military and political establishment to reduce the prominence of wagner. early on. bugger claimed that it was more effective than the russian military and for goshen seemed to be setting himself up to take a senior position maybe as a minister of defense. i think this is an effort by the russians to reduce its influence and it's visibility. indeed, it does seem as though in recent weeks, at the wagner group, fighting with russia has been somewhat sidelined by the kremlin. how

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he's a senior advisor in japan, chair at the center for strategic and international studies in washington, d. c. mr. johnson, it's good to have you on the program. we've got 2 major leaders from asia, one in russia, one in ukraine. what does that tell you about how much asia and the ukraine war are now connected? you know, we really have before as a tale of 2 visits on the one hand as your last statement really portrayed so well . for president, she visiting mosque out offering really material and political support to the war and ukraine on the one hand. and then on the other prime minister, who before coming to ukraine was in india, where he announced a broad vision for a free and open it. and a large package to go along and support it and is now, as you said in key where he's been a real leader. in contrast to previous japanese leaders of prime minister from the beginning, cited strongly with the other members of the g 7 imposing sanctions on rush on his regime and supporting in supporting ukraine. and in so doing, he really departed from years, literally years of japanese foreign polic

things like javelins and stingers and the research that has been conducted by the center for strategic international studiestake more than five years for the united states to replenish its supplies of key a arments as it tries to push back and the systemic brittleness as senior leaders call it in the defense industry and it's a product of sort of decades of different decisionmaking that resulted in on itemization for efficiency, rather than serve for production and the u.s. and pentagon are grappling with that right now. >> general twitty, the battle for bakhmut is raging on heavily. critics say bakhmut is not this kind of city to warrant this kind of sacrifice on the part of ukraine when they need their ammo, their resources for the spring offensive to come what say you about the importance -- the importance of bakhmut? is this a poor decision by ukraine? >> well, i know don't want to say it's a poor decision because i'm not on the ground, so, i'll leeb it to the ukrainian military to make that decision but what i will tell you is, what concerns me, and i think it concerns many others, that are watching th

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he is a senior advisor and the australia chair at the center for strategic and international studies. he joins me to night from new york city. it's good to have you on the show. mr. e dell i'm, i want to ask you, if china, we're not this emerging military power, that it is, would we've would be having this conversation about this nuclear submarine deal. absolutely not. but when you say emerging power, we have to note that it's not only the exponential growth of the chinese military, but it's increasingly more assertive use. and if you subtract those 2 things, you would not have seen arcus in the 1st place. so this is a reaction to what the chinese have been building, what they've been modernizing and, and how they've been using over the past 2 decades. china is warning against what it calls a dangerous road that the u. s. the u. k. and australia are following up, but either china is also following a path of increasing armaments, isn't it? well, it's not following. in fact, in many ways it's leading this call from beijing that australia, the u. k, u. s. or d, stabilizing the region by

for example, mike ryan is an ad junk fellow at the center for strategic and international studies. a think tank funded by top us. a defense contractors like lockheed martin raytheon and northrop groom and there's also peter jennings, levine, a lee and leslie ceeback, all contributors and fellows at the australian strategic paul.

for example, mike ryan is an adjunct fellow at the center for strategic and international studies. a think tank funded by top us defense contractors like lockheed martin raytheon and northrop grumman. there's also peter jennings, levine, a lee and leslie c, back all contributors and fellows at the australian strategic policy institute. another organization, bankrolled by the u. s. establishment. the australian strategic policy institute is the propaganda arm of the c. i a in the u. s. government. it is a mouthpiece for the americans. it is funded by the american government and american arms manufacturers. white is allowed to sit at the center of the australian government when it has so much foreign funding. i don't know if it were funded by anybody else, it would not be where it is at. many australians are understandably outraged by this blatant example of war mongering propaganda with the country's former prime minister, calling it a grievous and provocative today's sydney morning herald and h. front page stories on australia's supposed war risk with china represents the most egre

speaking of that working and there was another one at the center for strategic international studies that simulated an attack on taiwan and the u.s. side ran out of long range antiship cruise missiles in a few days. so there is a real concern as they are getting closer and closer to what may be a confrontation. >> gillian: as you mentioned with the war games it is not just a question of if china is making moves to improve rapidly, it's also that the u.s. military readiness is deteriorating. you see that not only with weaponry but with the fact that recruitment across all five branches is down pretty dramatically. space go significantly and that is a major issue for the pentagon. one in which they are really focused on to try to figure out how to get numbers back up quickly. you know it would be a different confrontation, obviously, but they are concerned about the numbers. they are also concerned about the ammunition and the weapons that we are sending in big numbers over the ukraine. if something happened on the other side of the world. the american public at the very least appears

tomorrow, scott kennedy of the center for strategic international studies doing this to talk about howheir policy has evolved and how it is impacting our economy. and then michael davis, a president -- professor, talks about federal banking regulations following the collapse of silicon valley bank. watch washington journal life on c-span, on c-span itow, our free mobile app, and join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text and tweets. ♪ >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we are funded by these television companies anymore, including cox. >> homework can be hard. but squatting in a diner for internetwork is even harder. that is why we are providing lower income students access to affordable internet so homework can just be homework. cox connect to compete. >> cox supports c-span as a public service ang with these other television providers, giving you a front procedure democracy. -- rosita democracy. >> president biden and out the executive order on firearms to increase background checks, promote secure firearms storage and curb violence. "monterey pa