of secretary of defense also in washington we have set up he is a senior fellow at the institute for china american studies and in london we cross the charles bridge he is a security analyst and. former u.k. army and counter terrorism intelligence officer origin across the uk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate charles let me go to you first here of course looking at the reactions to this olympic truce the one word keeps coming up wedge the north koreans are trying to wedge the u.s. away from south korea well of course they are the whole idea that's what's called a political and diplomatic gambit let the games begin at least the diplomatic ones here really the question is how the americans are actually going to respond to it not that it's a wedge because it is go ahead charles. yes undoubtedly north korea is quite skillfully taking advantage of events such as the olympics that doesn't mean they don't generally want to take part and i suspect many in north and south korea would welcome that they're going to take part after all they're all koreans at th

of secretary of defense also in washington we have set up he is a senior fellow at the institute for china american studies and in london we cross the charles bridge he is a security analyst and a former u.k. army and counter terrorism intelligence officer origin across the girls in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate charles let me go to you first here of course looking at the reactions to this olympic truce the one word keeps coming up wedge the north koreans are trying to wedge the u.s. away from south korea what's going to be our the whole idea that's what's called a political and diplomatic gambit let the games begin at least the diplomatic ones here really the question is how the americans are actually going to respond to it not that it's a wedge because it is go ahead charles. yes undoubtedly north korea is quite skillfully taking advantage of events such as the olympics that doesn't mean they don't generally want to and i suspect many in north and south korea would welcome that they're going to take part after all they're all koreans at the end of the

of secretary of defense also in washington we have set up he is a senior fellow at the institute for china american studies and in london we cross the charles bridge he is a security analyst and a former u.k. army and counter terrorism intelligence officer. origin across the rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate charles let me go to you first here of course looking at the reactions to this a limp dick truce the one word keeps coming up wedge the north koreans are trying to wedge the us away from south korea well of course they are the whole idea that's why it's called a political and diplomatic gambit let the games begin at least the diplomatic ones here really the question is how the americans are actually going to respond to it not that it's a wedge because it is go ahead charles. yes undoubtedly north korea is quite skillfully taking advantage of events such as the olympics that doesn't mean they don't generally want to take part and i suspect many in north and south korea would welcome that they're going to take part after all they're all koreans at

of secretary of defense also in washington we have set up he is a senior fellow at the institute for china american studies and in london we cross the charles bridge he is a security analyst and a former u.k. army and counter terrorism intelligence officer origin across the girls in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate charles let me go to you first here of course looking at the reactions to this olympic truce the one word keeps coming up wedge the north koreans are trying to wedge the u.s. away from south korea what's going to be our the whole idea that's what's called a political and diplomatic gambit let the games begin at least the diplomatic ones here really the question is how the americans are actually going to respond to it not that it's a wedge because it is go ahead charles. yes undoubtedly north korea is quite skillfully taking advantage of events such as the olympics that doesn't mean they don't generally want to and i suspect many in north and south korea would welcome that they're going to take part after all they're all koreans at the end of the

place on the world stage but we must also reject china's effort to undermine the values, institutions, and the rules that generations of americans have died for along with other countries to establish and uphold. we must never allow a socialist authoritarian model of government to supplant the primacy of democracy new york matter how rich and how strong the authoritarians become. bu china is not choosingo rise through the global order this united states and our lies have built with our blood, and our sweat. a global order made up of international institutions that have held the peace since world war ii. of the competitive and rule he was based economic playing field in a free marketplace ideas where people, where people, not governments, decide what they will think, instead, china has grown to become a revisionist power, not rising within the current order but seeking to hange, coerce to to the suit china's end, not playing by the rule bus rewriting the rules. china's policy is rewriting the rules in three key areas. first, china is replacing traditional power which is based on a nation's attractiveness with sharp power which leverages coerci