india and china, if one looks at the way in which china is seen to be projecting its power into central asia about that, is it coherent? is it integrated ? or is it actually unsustainable? well, i think all these labels are not helpful. you know, in the same way that the west, where does one start and where does one end? and the same way asia or the east, or even when one talks about the belt and road initiative, from a chinese perspective that includes the arctic, that includes oral hygiene, that includes space, right? so, these labels are designed to suggest a narrative. and there is an advantage of a narrative because it shows, suggests that there's a plan. and one of the things that is very striking to me is that in all these countries or many of the countries i work on, whether it's saudi arabia, vietnam, kazakhstan, there are long—term national plans of where the country is going and what the threats and risks are. and it's very striking to me that here in europe and arguably here in the uk, in particular, we don't have the ability to think beyond a few months ahead because of brexit,

i mean, i work in russia, the middle east, central asia. wall coming down. the rise of china that everybody has been talking about in the last three or four yea rs about in the last three or four years in thinking that is in the wind started blowing, we need to go back 30 years if not more. if you are taking the longer you would ask, what was it the communist revolution is of 1917 stops, and what came out the other side of them... actually, i'm going to stop you, may be the key moment was not the fall of the berlin wall, may be the key moment was deng xiaoping saying that china was going to embrace capitalism and that he was going to do it while maintaining the political authority of the communist party. maybe actually, when we look at the span of the next 100 years, that will be much more important. well, i wrote a book about that, and in fact you are right. the tiananmen square incident in july 1989 was almost synchronous with the berlin wall coming down in the colla pse berlin wall coming down in the collapse of the soviet union sent sho

pacific ocean and south china sea with a maritime force that is able to do that so if you're in central asia or russia or india your very much looking at china as a continental power. as well as the pla force. and never strategy and the first desire china with the soviet union and then to down the threat of activism. with the relationships with their ethnicity and unfortunately unforgivable with weaker activism and cultural demands with blatant concentration camps with the orwellian system to suppress the use of biometrics to figure out the dna and the suppression of religious rights and one thing that has been very disappointing as i talk about it in the us strategy with a maritime perspective and turning that into a weakness mentally do have relationships with india and central asia to multiply china's problems with only need to worry about and russia is a complicated issue but also look at it from the awful human rights situation if you have an empire that believes the hot nation is the only really nation then you will end up laboring down all religious minorities and that is what is happ

perspective and turning that into a weakness the more we have relationships in india the letter was central asia the more we multiply china's problems what we have to worry about. obviously russia is a complicated issue. but also look at it from the awful human rights situation if you have an empire that believes the high nation is the only ruling nation then putting down all religious minorities and that's what happened. >> so the ultimate question goes to hr. what about the manufacturing sector is there a significant rise? i know you been doing work with the good economist that's why i am directing it to you. >> this is economics or not. [laughter] but a do think you can't look at the economic relationship with china separate from security relationship because of course chinese companies by law look at this as an extension of the chinese communist party. so to do business in china we have the economic equivalent of the hippocratic oath do not do any harm to ourselves of the chinese people we should engage in business relationships or to finance any chinese efforts to help them perfect the orwe

hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us rescuers in central asia are searching for survivors after a major earthquake struck tuesday afternoon authorities say at least 7 people were killed and many others injured the quake was the 2nd to hit the region in just today. the search for survivors continued long into the night. once a picturesque town not far from the coalition capital zagreb now a disaster zone. the 6.4 magnitude quake brought death and destruction without warning but the response has been swift the army moved into airlift patients from a hospital. in one damaged nursing home residents lie on the floor as they waited for the turn to leave. as the most vulnerable are evacuated eighty's pouring in. across croatia donations of being collected for patrol and the surrounding area. bobbie there is no doubt that about we saw they needed help people are coming from every way to bring food and necessities. they need humanitarian aid now because this won't be over anytime soon . the basic necessities of already reached this shelter for people my homeless by the earthquake.

of things or there's the north america centrist maps we are used to.but his was a map with central asia in the center and it changes your perspective. on how you analyze all political events. ucl ran right there, you see how those in fact the underbelly of the former soviet union euros was to the east. so just this week we've had this ceremony on the south lawn of the white house with the foreign ministers from uae and bahrain. there was president trump and benjamin netanyahu. and inevitably it raises questions of candy united states moveon from this sort of obsession with the middle east or being trapped in the kind of energy dependence and therefore the energy politics that comes with it. is that part of your new map. >> it is, it's really as i say what is a new map and as far as maps of energy and geopolitics and how they go together , exactly the way you phrased it. it's an aspect of the middle east and when i originally starteddoing it , it was really just the idea came in the change of trade flows and how that map was changing and that was really kind of a dramatic factor and then

when it comes i think the first strategy and first desire of china when it came to turning to central asiaut down what they viewed as the uighur awakening and relationships so the relationships unfortunately, very unfortunately, there was a turn from concerns with activism and cultural demands to the blatant concentration camps and even worse, the use of the orwellian systems to suppress and use the biometrics to figure out the dna. the suppression of the religious rights was the shaving of the beards of muslim men and it was just awful. one thing that has been disappointing that i talk about in terms of the u.s. grand strategy from a continental and maritime perspective and again turning that into a weakness because the more we have relationships, may be better relationships with central asia, the more multiplied the problems and things we have to worry about. we also have to look at it from this awful human rights situation and we have an empire that believes it's the only ruling nation and then you will end up putting down all religious minorities how dependent have we become on china a

have her strategy to china when it came to return to central asia after the soviet union and that ethnicity so the relationships with turnkey groups unfortunately with those activism to the ablative and concentration camps. and then the biometrics to figure out the dna. and the suppression of the religious rights and one thing that has been very disappointing talk about the us grand strategy and then turning that into a weakness because of where we have relationships with india and central asia the more multiply china's problems and the things we have to worry about and russia is a hugely complicated issue. and then look at it from the awful human rights situation and then to believe that on nation is the only ruling nation and then to put down all religious minorities and that's what has happened. >>. >> how dependent have we become on china in the manufacturing sector? do we have the political will with the price of importing goods? >> i do know some economists but you cannot think that our economic relationship in china separate from a security relationship. so of course chinese companie

ocean, the south china sea, create maritime force and able to do that b if you're sitting in -- in central asia, to a certain extent russia, india, you're very much looking at china as a continental power. the term near -- theerm near abroad and you're right to do so because there's a l of both paramilitary fce. when itomes to near broad, the first strategy and the first desire of china when it came to tuing to central aa after the soviet fell was to put down as they called the uighur awakening,hey are turkish in eticity and relationship with turkish groups, very unfortunately, unforgive has turnedo uighur demand and concentration camps or worse and systems t suppress the use of biometrics to figur out the dna of: uighurs families. the sup registration of religious ghts, there's a shaving of brds of muslim member and not giving them halal foods. it's awful. onehing that's been very disappointingnd so i talk about it i terms of u.s. grant strategy has to look at china fr continental and maritime perspective, again, turning that into a weakns because the more we have relationships, better relatio

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during the withdrawal, and served as the head of central command over the whole middle east and central asiaegion. it was during that time that he and biden worked quite closely together under the obama administration and had a strong relationship, and also ended up leaving on the efforts of isis. he brings a lot of expertise in areas that will continue to be central for the united states, including middle east engagement, afghanistan, counterterrorism, and brings a lot of logistical expertise to the position. marco: and he's black, which sends a different kind of message to the people of the united states, who are accusing the institution of a sickly being institutionally racist. -- of basically being institutionally racist. >> it is notable. biden is trying to have a diverse team around him and lloyd austin will be the first african-american to serve as defense secretary. it is notable for the defense position in particular, about 40% of the u.s. military is made up of nonwhite members, so it is a notch to the diversity of the military, but also to the greater diversity of the biden team t

found dead in strength officials say the suspect opened fire rest police arrived at a house in the central asia they were anson at answering a domestic violence call president michael has called the officers curious. u.s. president has announced a wave of pardons including for 4 former government contractors convicted of killing unarmed iraqi civilians trump also pardoned former republican congressman found guilty of corruption and a campaign aide convicted of lying under oath during the investigation into russian meddling in the 26 election. the u.s. justice department is suing walmart accusing the retail giant of fueling the country's opioid crisis the suit alleges that wal-mart filed thousands of invalid prescriptions handled orders or responsibly and failed to report suspicious prescriptions wal-mart has rejected the allegations it is asking a federal judge to throw out the case. a turkish court has sentenced an exiled journalist to more than 27 years in jail on espionage and terror related charges in connection with a newspaper report. was the editor in chief of the opposition daily before

country billions of dollars on the ground we could be a potential economical hub between south and central asia but due to the war that has not been news so. yes personal sacrifices is part of this process we have to really put ourselves into a situation to feel. every victim of this war we have we have victims of war in the negotiation table and i said you rightly have saved i have been personally attacked twice in the last one injured. but there are others who actually lost members of families due to the war in the war i have lost members of family but let's think about thousands and millions of those people back home who in no way are the other are victims of war and in order to put a dignified end to this bloodshed we would like to with a willingness to talk with taliban i hope taliban will take our willingness for. talks in a good well. quickly put some sense charity and you know. into ending this war you talked about the fact that the taliban is not the only group responsible for the violence in afghanistan obviously that is correct is another part of the problem that even if you do get a

everything from cyber threats to competition over central asia, the middle east, etc., worries about russian behavior toward the baltics, etc. i think they will be wary, but not assuming this is entirely an adversarial relationship. respondhink will try to to -- if putin can identify areas of cooperation, that will appeal. let's remember a lot of the appointees are from the obama administration and the reset with russia leaves a bad taste in their mouth. --t was something they felt [indiscernible] gen. clapper: to the extent russia has any claim to fame as a major power is their nuclear capability, which is still quite substantial. i think the russians are interested in arms control. that serves their interest. they would like to see an of arms agreements. i think the biden administration will be wary of the russians. ryan: we have another question i don'to look at -- know if you will call it one of the marginal issues, hunger. as this great power competition consumes our political attention, the question is around human insecurity, which is worsening. it is one of many nontraditiona

missile capabilities are 2nd to none on the other hand iran's regional allies from the red sea to central asia to the mediterranean and to the hindu kush are very powerful and the a long reach so whether it will be a military response or an intelligence response that i don't know but i think the iranians feel that they have no option but to punish the israeli regime simply because if they do not do so the regime will be encouraged to carry out further murderous attacks against iranian citizens and therefore a strike by the iranians will help to convince the israeli regime that the price is not worth it why is that we appreciate you coming on to the program and giving us your thoughts and insight but so much that was professed slayed mohammed project from tehran you know thought city. well still ahead on the program an american claims it's now the global summer and when it comes to penny sing doping in sport we look at how a new u.s. nor could give it far reaching powers to jail and prosecute offenders in different countries up next. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be spe

department of state political and military affairs and worked throughout africa and central asia, south asia. he has served in the government for more than 20 years both as an officer and commander in the air national guard and as a white house fellow working for the director of the u.s. office of personnel management. he is the author and editor of over a dozen books on religion and foreign policy and ethics. political science in santa barbara and politics in whales. delighted to introduce dr. patterson and dr. morrison to join us for this conversation. >> thank you. >> to pick up from where dr. morrison dropped off, the mayflower compact was a declaration of religious independence and by crafting a civil body politic, the community created this space for religious freedom in law in the future. dr. morrison, would you like to elaborate on that statement? >> yes. i would be happy to. thank you. the mayflower compact is not a constitution. occasionally you might hear it referred to as such, but it isn't. in that it creates that social contract, that civil body politic as they refer to th

i had rashid is a journalist and author of taliban militant islam or oil and fundamentalism in central asia he says international pressure could lead to his imprisonment. there must be a very serious internal middle she ations going on in islamabad between the government the intelligence agencies the military. and of course if this case is sent up to the supreme court in islamabad it's quite likely he would be jailed again the problem is that he's being he's being rejected now for several years on 90 day detention order which is not exactly what he you know he would be convicted of murdering daniel. and. and he's been sentenced to 18 years in jail. but you know his actual yelling and being carried out on a on a had not basis or a 90 day tension order now the question is i mean every 90 days we are having this crisis you know the same bike or freezing the government tries to block it or issues an appeal against freeing him and usually wins. are in place now now and this time. it's the rift between the government and the courts and the intelligence agencies is quite large. iraq's government r

military central command which oversees troops across the middle east central asia and parts of south asia while his impressive resume may make the west point graduate look like the perfect fit for defense secretary to the dismay of progressives and antiwar activists there is plenty of controversy surrounding austin as a general lloyd austin was one of the individuals who spearheaded the invasion of iraq in 2003 and was involved in the highly criticized war from beginning to end in addition austin played a key role in arming so-called rebel groups in an effort to overthrow syria's president assad on the program failed last an actively campaign to resurrect it austin built a personal relationship with joe biden which began in 2014 when the president elect was v.p. during that time austin was credited for initiating an international coalition against isis the same year he backed immunity for u.s. troops from war crimes prosecutions by the government of afghanistan right after retiring the former general took a seat on the board of raytheon technologies an arms benefactor which spends mi

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ringback a powerful earthquake hit central asia causing major damage to a town near the capital zagreb. results are live from doha also coming up calls for a speed up in the distribution of vaccines as covert cases ryans. difference between rich and poor why some people may have to wait longer to get inoculated. and boeing's troubled 737 max returns to american skies after 9 months on the ground. has been hit by a strong 6.4 magnitude earthquake 2 people have died in the town of petrina believed to be the epicenter the town's mayor says about half of it has been destroyed and he's calling for evacuations to take place as soon as possible not in barbour has this report. church bells and panic voices ring out amid the destruction as people in the small town of petrina rushed to rescue people from the rubble. one house collapsed on top of this car is a man and a boy in sight thankfully local residents managed to get them both out alive. thanks. but a 12 year old girl is known to have been killed these pictures filmed by al jazeera make clear the damage houses completely collapsed others p

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patterson is informed by two -- and works throughout africa and central asia. he has served in the government for more than 20 years but as an officer and commander in the air national guard and a white house fellow working as director of the u.s. office of personnel management. he is the author and editor over a dozen books. he published extensively pick he received his phd in political science from the university of science and in california and a masters degree from the university of was. i am delighted to introduce dr. patterson and dr. morrison for this conversation. >> we want to pick up from where dr. morrison picked off in his lecture where he said the mayflower compact was a declaration of religious independence and that by crafting a civil body politic, the community created the space for religious freedom and law in the future. dr. morrison, would you like to elaborate on the statement? >> it creates the social contract, this civil body politic as they refer to themselves the lovely and intimate and organic metaphor for political community. in extrem

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withnterests are informed work throughout africa and central asia and south asia. he has served in the government for more than 20 years as an officer and commander in the international guard and as a white house fellow working for the director of u.s. office of personnel management. he is the author and editor of numerous books on religion and foreign policy and ethics. he is published extensively on religious freedom and democratization. he received his phd in political science from the university of california at santa barbara. and a masters degree in international politics from the university of wales. delighted to introduce dr. patterson and dr. morrison to join us for this conversation. >> thank you. emily: to pick up from where dr. morrison left off in his presentation, the mayflower compact. by crafting a civil body politic, the community created a space for religious freedom in law in the future. dr. morrison, would you like to elaborate on that statement? dr. morrison: yes i would be , happy to. thank you. the mayflower compact is not a constitution. hear

department of state's bureau of military affairs and work throughout africa and central asia. in south asia. he has served in the government for more than 20 years, both as an officer and commander in the air national guard, and as a white house fellow working for the director of the u.s. office of personnel management. he's the author or editor of over a dozen books on religion and foreign policy and ethics. he's published extensively on religious freedom, democracy, and democratization. he received the ph.d. in political science from the university of california at santa barbara, and a master's degree in international politics from the university of wales. delighted to introduce dr. patterson and dr. morrison to join us for this conversation. i'd like to pick up from where dr. morrison left off in his lecture where he stated that the mayflower compact was a declaration of religious independence and that by crafting a civil body politic the community created the space for religious freedom in law in the future. dr. morrison, would you like to elaborate on that statement? >> ye

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it doesn't matter if you look at the endoe pacific, the middle east, africa, europe, central asia, south america, indeed if you look at the northern hemisphere, south america, north america, you see patterns of chinese conduct. what are these patterns of conduct. well, you see -- first i should say they're patterns of conduct designed to achieve chinese objectives that is induce a kind of dependency on states around the world. how do the chinese proceed with this? they have perpetrated the greatest act of theft in human history. a staggering number, staggering amounts of intellectual property theft, hundreds of billions of dollars a year. >> tell us what that means. >> and intellectual property th means stealing trade secrets of high-tech companies, of the production of weapons, weapons systems, and the like. usually, or often it's done through, again, high-tech means. it's one of the reasons that the trump administration, in general, the state department under secretary pompeo, has focused so heavily on the threat we believe that is posed by national champion companies in china like hua

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we've been absent from the caucasus, we've been absent from central asia and belarus.have a comprehensive strategy you might have more success than what we've been doing the last four years. >> it looks like, just from a layman's perperspective, the russians are looking and saying, america is soft. they're an easy target. ambassador mike mcfall, thank you for your response on this. >>> i want to look at another aspect of the damage done toing this country by president trump when it comes to the rule of law. last night president trump announced attorney general bill barr was stepping down. multiple sources familiar with the president's thinking say mr. trump has been fuming since barr publicly broke with the white house saying that he'd seen no evidence of widespread voter fraud. with me now is michael schmid who has covered barr and the justice department. a washington correspondent for "the new york times" and was heavily -- has been very aggressive on the reporting of the mueller probe and all of that. so nobody understands the inner workings of that justice departme

a mad rush as a journalist and author of taliban militant islam oil and fundamentalism in central asia he says international pressure could lead to his re imprisonment. there must be a very serious internal middle she ations going on in islamabad between the government the intelligence agencies the military. and of course if this case is sent up to the supreme court in islamabad it's quite likely that he would be jailed again the problem is that he's being he's been rejected now for several years on 90 day detention order which is not exactly what he you know he'll be convicted of murdering daniel. and. and he's been sentenced to 18 years in jail. but you know his actual yelling and being carried out on a on a had not basis or a 90 day tension order now the question is i mean every 90 days we are having this crisis you know the same bike or freezing with government tries to block it or issues an appeal against freeing him and usually wins. oh it plays out now this time around it's the rift between the government of course and the intelligence agencies is quite large. here he is trying

the journalist and author of taliban militant islam or oil and fundamentalism in central asia he joins us by skype from the horror in pakistan with us why do you think he's being freed before this appeal is being held. well you know anderson happened before and there's been this running battle between the same government and the federal government and the same high court the same high court frequently issued creating orders that daniel pearl should be free and that is being counted monday by the government which imposed another lockdown my people who will be in this this battle going on has not sent me anywhere or. will actually be freed although the same night court is taking a very odd line because the government think the government has been ignoring its orders we have to see whether it is actually going to be free and it really is a tree is going to lead to i think extremely negative consequences for pakistan we do that at the moment desperately seeking. clarity it's part of an i.m.f. program its economy even dies and in 3 years freedom you're allowed to wander around the country t

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be very wary of russia these days, everything from cyberthreats to, you know, competition over central asiae middle east, et cetera, worries about russian behavior towards the baltics, et cetera. i think they will be wary but they will not be assuming that this is entirely an adversarial relationship. so, you know, they will, i think, try to respond to some of what -- if putin can identify some areas for cooperation that would probably appeal, but let's remember that a lot of the appointees are from the obama administration, and the reset with russia, you know, leaves a bad -- you know, a bad taste in their mouths. if that was, you know, something that they felt, i think, very bitter about. >> well, if i can add to that, i think to the extent that russia has any claim to fame as a major power, it's, of course, their nuclear capability. which is still quite substantial. and i do think the russians are interested in arms control because that serves their interests. and i think they would like to see an extension of a start, and perhaps some other arms control agreements because that serves th

military in the middle east, parts of africa, central asia and south asia. >> i think he's a fine choice coming with a lot of experience. he'll settle the pentagon, he'll be a key member of president biden's team. >> reporter: if confirmed, austin would need to obtain a congressional waiver to serve. the reason, the secretary of defense is supposed to be a civilian position with candidates expected to have spent seven years out of the military before serving. austin retired from the military in 2016. only two other nominees have needed waivers. george marshall under president truman and james mattis, under president trump. during the 2017 mattis hearings, the topic of another non-civilian waver taking place so soon was front and center. >> would not imagine in the next 20 plus years that we would see ourselves back in a hearing of this nature over another recently retired general officer. >> reporter: but biden's team says austin is a strong nominee who understands the intricacies of the pentagon, citing his logistics experience to help distribute a coronavirus vaccine. in this morning's