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6 C: a( { X; T8 v$ G In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with Hal Brands, Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and author of the new book,Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China, about China s economic, political and demographic trajectory and the percolating risk of conflict with Beijing in the coming years. Brands explains why he believes China, rather than being on the rise, is peaking as a global power and as a result may engage in more destabilizing behavior. Brands and Morell explore how certain external tailwinds - which once propelled China s rise - have become headwinds, and may be driving President Xi Jinping s tightening grip on political power. They also discuss the effect of Speaker Pelosi s visit to Taipei, different scenarios and timelines for a possible Chinese invasion of Taiwan, as well as how the conflict in Ukraine may - or may not - affect Xi s calculus. Listen to this episode on ART19 Highligh stanley cup ts:China as a peaking power: There is prevailing wisdom out there that China is the next global superpower, that it s going to effortlessly zip past the United States, that it ll be the world s greatest stanley cup economy and so on and so forth. And we stanley cup think that s wrong. And we think that China is best considered as a peaking power rather than a rising power. Yes, it s got more military power now than it ever Fgwn Tesla autopilot helps bring sick driver to the hospital3 Q7 W2 {& Y/ b- i3 S
JACKSON, Miss. -- A black Mississippi citizen air force 1 is taking his case against the state s Confederate-themed flag to the U.S. Supreme Court.In papers filed Wednesday, attorneys for Carlos Moore said lower courts were wrong to reject his argument that the flag is a symbol of white supremacy that harms him and his young daughter by violating t jordan he Constitution s guarantee of equal protection to all citizens.His attorneys wrote that under the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling against Moore, a city could adopt White Supremacy Forever as its official motto; or a county could incorporate an image of white hooded figures and a noose hanging from a tree into its county seal; or a state could incorporate a Nazi swastika, as an endorsement of Aryan/white crocs supremacy, in its state flag. Mississippi s is the last state flag to feature the Confederate battle emblem. Critics say the symbol is racist. Supporters say it represents history.Mississippi has used the flag since 1894, displaying its red field and tilted blue cross dotted with 13 white stars in the upper left corner. Voters kept it in a 2001 election. However, several cities and towns and all eight of the state s public universities have stopped flying the flag amid concerns that it is offensive in a state where 38 percent of the population is black. Many took action after the June 2015 massacre of nine black worshippers at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, by an avowed white |
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