. >> jon: that was graham allison. he joins me now.ess that the north koreans have made in terms of building a nuclear warhead is pretty frightening to you and it should be to all americans. >> it absolutely is and it is to anybody who is focused on the issue. if you want a pretty good snapshot of it, general mattis' presentation got right to the point. basically, north korea has acquired nuclear weapons, they have acquired and built missiles can deliver those nuclear weapons against south korea and against japan and north korea is on a path in the months immediately ahead to launch missiles i can deliver nuclear warheads against san francisco or los angeles. that's an ugly fact. >> jon: based on the title of your book, one has to wonder if there were some kind of preventive strikes by the united states on the north, would china stay out of it? >> we should try to remember what happened the last time we saw this relief which was the first korean war and this could be the beginning of the second. i think most of the intelligence committ

and, of course, our distinguished visitor from cambridge is graham allison who has been a friend, advisor, teacher think too many people in this room. he's director of the belfer center for science and international affairs. he is most relevant for today i suppose, author of the new book destined for war, can america and china escape the trap. by my informal reckoning the only people of yet heard about the book is an uncontacted tribe in the amazon consider 12 people. by the end of this event they, too, will be apprised. want to know why it is trending on twitter you have to credit graham for that. we will start there. the concept of the trap has provoked intense interest and discussion on both sides of the pacific ever since graham allison start talking about it. even before the book was out. what were going to do today is will ask our pals he gets a few words at the beginning to speak for a few minutes on how they conceptualize u.s.-china relations from your relative vantage point. what are the structural tension, was the opportunities and where is this had a? a? grandpa will start with

graham allison. teacher, adviser, director of the center for science and national affairs at the kennedy school. author of the new book "destined for war: can america and china escape the ?"ap if you want to know why -- is trending on twitter, you have to credit him. captured theas imagination on both sides of the pacific. even before his book was out. we will ask our panelists today to give us a few words at the beginning on how they conceptualize u.s.-china relations from their relative vintage points. where is this headed. . start with you. >> thank you very much for this opportunity. lens that concept or helps us understands the relation between the u.s. and china today. i think there is. we are trying to look through the noise of the day, whether it climate going from me pact or missile tests or potential conflict in the south china sea. becoming -- we look through that to the structural and even sub-structural reality. rising poweris a threatening to disrupt. helps ishat picture put the rest of

this week's book of the week is graham allison's "destined for war".tional affairs is will the united states and china clash in the way all rising and established powers have done through history? an imminent harvard scholar considers this question, examines the history, and comes to some fine conclusions. a very smart, well written and important book. the correct answer to the gps challenge question is b, india. by 2030 every car sold will be l electric. if india is successful it will save the country $60 billion in energy cost. they will facilitate the switch by offering subsidies until the cars pay for themselves. some are skeptical that india will achieve such a lofty goal, but we have to wish them well. thank you for being part of my program this week. i will see you next week. >>> hello, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i'm fredricka whitfield. u.s. attorney general jeff sessions getting ready to be in the hot seat this week testifying tuesday before the senate intelligence committee. sessions will lyingly face tough questions over his

it's not a solution as graham allison wrote in the "new york times" this week, he said he has noticed its national security really strengthen, if a 33-year-old dictator with a record of executing its enemies and define red lines is left with an arsenal of 20 warheads and missiles to deliver nuclear strikes against tokyo. we know the answer. so it's an important interim step but it's not the final solution. it should be seen as part of the phased process. the third element is what i would call pursuing a win-win approach. the u.s. and iranians in those early secret talks both agreed that they needed a win-win outcome where, at the end of the day, each of them could come forward and say they succeeded in filling their goals. this of course also came with the understanding that they would have to make compromises along the way so that both sides would be able to claim victory. and then i think moving on looking for to what that raised approach might be, bob einhorn recently has written about this at brookings, and i think it makes a great deal of sense, starting with negotiations on a nu

. >>> this week's book of the week is graham allison's destined for war.n in international affairs is will the united states and china inevitably clash in the way that all rising and established powers have done through history. an imminent harvard scholar examines the history and comes to some fine conclusions. a very smart, well written, and important book. the correct answer to the "gps" challenge question is b, india. the government has said by 2030, every car sold in that country would be electric. the world economic forum says if india is successful, it would save the country roughly $60 billion in energy costs by 2030. india's energy minister says the country will help facilitate the switch by offering subsidies for a couple years until the cars pay for themselves. some are skeptical india will achieve such a lofty goal, but we have to wish them well. thanks to all of you for being part of my program this week. i will see you next week. >>> hey, i'm brian stelter. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. it's time for re

also that evening on the campus of stanford university where graham allison will explore the potential for war between the united states and china. thursday we're at the marines' memorial theater in san san francisco, california, where chess grand master gary garry kasparov will look at how artificial intelligence is impacting humans. and this weekend we're in chicago at the 2017 printers or row lit fest. featured authors include national book award winner eastbound rim kinty, michael eric dyson, 2017 pulitzer prize winner heather ann thompson, and former florida congressman trey radel. that's a look at some of the events booktv will be covering this week. many of these events are open to the public. look for them to air in the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. booktv, ting for serious readers. -- television for serious readers. >> next, "the communicators" and a discussion on the future of the cable industry. after that, federal trade commission officials discuss recent enforcement actions and in

joining me now is graham allison, former assistant of secretary of defense and author of "destined forica and china escape the trap?" firs first, otto warmbier was released after 15 months and fell into a coma. what can we do about this? >> typical of north korea, there is a nutty regime, this is a nutty leader. this is the most dangerous spot on the planet today. >> all right. may i ask you separate from that, sir, the kind of diplomacy that dennis rodman brings. look, he's a friend of the president. he brought kim jong-un a copy of "art of the deal," the president's book there. we have three inmates in prison. they did not leave with him from pyongyang. are dennis rodman's visits helpful? >> i may surprise you, but i think the answer is yes. when you're dealing with somebody like jim jong-un, whoever he relates to, that's the person who should be helpful. he's a big basketball fan. he likes the exotic. dennis rodman, for all the things that he may not be as a diplomat basically has a relationship with him. so i say good for dennis and good for the administration trying to use him. i

. >> graham allison, people are writing books that are saying that it may be inevitable. >> well, and history is full of collisions between rising powers and established ones. >> rose: that's a real rather than exsception. >> right there are exceptions, however, and that's the challenge for state craft, and leadership is to manage the complicated relationships like that. >> what do they call the-- the trap, right and rising powers are inevitably going to be in conflict with established powers. >> there are going to be collisions but what kind of collisions they are, whether they are political or economic or military, whether they can be managed in a more or less peaceful way is a different issue. and that question, i think, is not forward. >> what about institutions, the president first says they are obsolete and he goes over there and says no, they are not obsolete, but he doesn't give a ringing defense and participation and support for article five. >> he doesn't. which i think is a misjudgement. because for the united states, our alliances are what sets us apart from lonelier power

joining us right now is graham allison who served as assistant secretary of defense during the clintons currently the center of harvard's center for science and international affairs and also on the advisory boards of the secretary of state, the secretary of defense, and the director of the cia and sir thank you for being with us today. >> thank you for having me. >> you've been around all of these areas in the intelligence community for a very long time. what did you think of james comey's testimony yesterday? >> well, it's still -- i think you can see it all playing out a little bit like a theater. i think in the backdrop of everybody's mind, including comey's, is watergate, and i suspect that he reversed very, you know, more than once for his presentation. i thought he passed. but, there were a few moments there where you could see him wondering whether he had stated a matter just right. he certainly worked very hard on that letter that he presented in advance. but i didn't -- don't think i learned much from it. >> for those of us who are not as steeped in washington experience, it