Asia Program Meetings

Cybersecurity and the Private Sector

Interviewer: Adam Segal
Interviewee: Edward Amoroso

AT&T's Chief Security Officer, Edward Amoroso, discusses the recent spate of cyberattacks and how governments and the private sector can help protect infrastructure and prevent future attacks with Adam Segal, Ira A. Lipman Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

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China's Innovation Wall

Speaker: Adam Segal

Adam Segal, author of "Advantage: How American Innovation Can Overcome the Asian Challenge," discusses the policy changes needed to achieve the Chinese ambition to move from a model of "made in China" to one of "innovated in China."

See more in China, Air Transportation Security

Symposium on the U.S.-Japan Partnership: Session One: Global Transformations and the U.S.-Japan Partnership (Audio)

Speakers: Michael A. Levi and Akihiko Tanaka
Introductory Speaker: Richard N. Haass
Presider: Yoichi Funabashi

Listen to experts reflect on global challenges such as the rise of China, climate change, and energy security and how these affect the U.S.-Japan partnership.

This session was part of the CFR Symposium on the U.S.-Japan Partnership: An Agenda for Change, cosponsored with the Asahi Shimbun.

See more in Japan, U.S. Strategy and Politics

Postscript: Congo’s Elections

Author: Stephanie Hanson

On July 30, the Democratic Republic of the Congo will hold its first multiparty presidential and parliamentary elections in four decades. Many hope this will be the country’s first fully democratic election, but a host of challenges—including infrastructure, security, and communication—have experts hoping the Congolese people will merely accept the election’s results.

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Pew Research Center: Iraq Trend by Religion

The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press conducted a poll: "Do you think the U.S. made the right decision or the wrong decision in using military force against Iraq?" The sub-categories of participants are white evangelical Protestants, white mainline Protestants, white non-Hispanic Catholic, and secular.

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Mead: Timing of Troop Withdrawal from Iraq Looms Large in Blair, Bush Meeting

Walter Russell Mead interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman

Walter Russell Mead, CFR's senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy, says that when British Prime Minister Tony Blair meets with President Bush on Thursday, the timing of allied troop withdrawals will probably loom large in the conversation. "I wouldn't be surprised if we started to hear some things, slightly better news, about the chance for troop withdrawals to begin at some point," says Mead, an expert on U.S. foreign policy.

See more in Iran, Iraq, Proliferation