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SUMMARY:China’s slowing economy: What China is doing about it\, and what it means for the rest of the world
DESCRIPTION:Brookings Description: \nThe Chinese economy is facing significant challenges—slowing growth\, a struggling property sector\, sluggish consumer spending\, heavy debt loads in the corporate and local government sectors\, an aging population\, and trade tensions with the U.S. and other countries. The Chinese economy’s prospects and the adequacy of the government’s response are among the biggest uncertainties hanging over the global economy today. How will China react to the outcome of the U.S. presidential election? What will the economic impact of the 14th National People’s Congress be? \nOn Tuesday\, November 26\, the Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary Policy and the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution will convene a virtual panel to discuss the current state of the Chinese economy\, China’s policy response\, and the implications for the rest of the world. Participating will be Jon Czin\, Michael H. Armacost chair in foreign policy studies and a fellow in the China Center; Eswar Prasad\, new century chair in international economics and a senior fellow in Brookings’ Global Economy and Development program; Wendy Cutler\, vice president and managing director at the Asia Society Policy Institute; and Zongyuan Zoe Liu\, Maurice R. Greenberg senior fellow for China studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Moderating the conversation will be Bob Davis\, a former senior editor at The Wall Street Journal. \nViewers can submit questions by emailing events@brookings.edu and via X @BrookingsFP and @BrookingsEcon using the hashtag #ChinaEcon.
URL:https://haydencenter.gmu.edu/event/chinas-slowing-economy-what-china-is-doing-about-it-and-what-it-means-for-the-rest-of-the-world/
LOCATION:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Assessing Taiwan’s economic resilience
DESCRIPTION:Brookings Description: \nTaiwan has been an exemplar of economic resilience. Its high-income economy weathered the COVID-19 pandemic better than many of its peers around the world\, and it has thus far skillfully navigated U.S.-China economic tensions. Moreover\, Taiwan’s advanced semiconductor manufacturing capabilities have helped ensure its central role in global supply chains. But Taiwan’s economy is not without its vulnerabilities. There is a fear that a lack of economic diversification poses risks. The socio-economic impacts of Taiwan’s leadership transition earlier this year and the forthcoming U.S. leadership transition\, as well as how relations with China may evolve in light of these developments\, remain uncertain. \nOn December 3\, the Center for Asia Policy Studies (CAPS) at Brookings and the Center for Asia-Pacific Resilience and Innovation (CAPRI) will host a panel of experts for an analytical discussion assessing Taiwan’s economic resilience. \nViewers can submit questions via e-mail to events@brookings.edu or via Twitter/X at #TaiwanEconomicResilience.
URL:https://haydencenter.gmu.edu/event/assessing-taiwans-economic-resilience/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241204T090000
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SUMMARY:The fentanyl epidemic in North America and the global reach of synthetic opioids
DESCRIPTION:Brookings Description: \nIn-Person and Virtual. Over the past two decades\, the United States has battled an unprecedented opioid crisis\, with synthetic opioids like fentanyl driving overdose deaths to devastating levels. In 2021 alone\, more than 100\,000 Americans died from drug overdoses. After years of grim statistics\, overdose rates started declining in 2024. Is the U.S. finally turning a corner on the opioid crisis? How have U.S. domestic and external drug policies evolved? How are synthetic opioids spreading beyond North America and reshaping drug markets and policies worldwide? \nOn December 4\, join the Brookings Institution’s Foreign Policy program for an event to launch the results of a year-long project on synthetic opioids in the United States and abroad. Highlighting the project’s findings and featuring top experts\, the event will open with a fireside chat between former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Senior Fellow Vanda Felbab-Brown. Subsequent panels will explore U.S. drugs markets\, domestic law enforcement\, treatment\, harm reduction\, and decriminalization policies as well as the international dimensions of synthetic opioids and their spread beyond North America. \nViewers can join the conversation to ask questions of the panelists by emailing events@brookings.edu or on X/Twitter using #FentanylEpidemicForum.
URL:https://haydencenter.gmu.edu/event/the-fentanyl-epidemic-in-north-america-and-the-global-reach-of-synthetic-opioids/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241209T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241209T170000
DTSTAMP:20241119T190001Z
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SUMMARY:International AI Policy: Outlook for 2025
DESCRIPTION:CSIS Description: \nOver the past year\, key international organizations\, like the G7\, OECD\, and Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI)\, have shaped the global AI governance conversation and focused on foundational principles\, critical risks\, and responsible AI development. Looking ahead to 2025\, how are G7 countries and corporations planning to implement AI governance frameworks and address challenges\, such as the growing energy demand for AI technologies? \nJoin the Wadhwani AI Center for the International AI Policy: Outlook for 2025 conference. This full-day event will be held at CSIS headquarters on December 9\, 2024\, from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM ET and will convene leading policymakers\, industry experts\, and thought leaders to explore the latest international efforts in AI governance. \nFeaturing keynote speeches from distinguished figures\, including Ambassador Shigeo Yamada of Japan to the United States\, Ambassador Laurent Bili of France to the United States\, and Sara Cohen\, Head of Mission for the Government of Canada\, this conference will highlight key international perspectives in AI governance. \nPanel discussions will focus on global governance initiatives such as the G7’s Hiroshima AI Process\, private sector adoption of AI policy frameworks\, and infrastructure advancements to meet AI power demands. Speakers will also spotlight upcoming priorities for AI governance during the 2025 Canadian G7 Presidency and the forthcoming AI Action Summit led by France. \nThis event is made possible by the generous support of NTT Corporation.   
URL:https://haydencenter.gmu.edu/event/international-ai-policy-outlook-for-2025/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241214T073000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241214T093000
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SUMMARY:Wreaths Across America: Wreath Laying Ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery Supported by AFCEA NOVA Emerging Leaders
DESCRIPTION:  \nAFCEA Description: \nWreaths Across America Program \n\n\n\nREMEMBER the fallen… HONOR those who serve… TEACH our children the value of freedom. \nArlington is where the Wreaths Across America program began. Starting in 1992\, our Founder and his family placed wreaths each December in a different section as a way of saying ‘Thank You’ to our nation’s servicemembers. This private gift went on for many years before the public knew. In 2007\, Wreaths Across America the national nonprofit was founded to expand upon this effort to include communities and citizens across the country. \nToday\, it is our goal to continue to honor ALL those laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery each December. Our volunteers are committed to Remembering and Honoring our nation’s veterans through the laying of wreaths on the graves of our country’s fallen heroes and the act of saying the name of each veteran aloud.  \nPlease help Wreaths Across America reach our goal by sponsoring a veteran’s wreath for placement by volunteers on Saturday\, December 14\, 2024. \nThank you for supporting Wreaths Across America’s efforts at Arlington National Cemetery!
URL:https://haydencenter.gmu.edu/event/wreaths-across-america-wreath-laying-ceremony-at-arlington-national-cemetery-supported-by-afcea-nova-emerging-leaders/
LOCATION:Arlington National Cemetery Welcome Center 1 Memorial Ave Fort Myer\, VA 22211
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SUMMARY:Coffee & Conversation with Jimmy L. Hall\, Jr.\, CIO Bureau of Intelligence and Research at U.S. State Dep
DESCRIPTION:INSA Description: \nJoin us online on Thursday\, December 19\, from 9:00-9:45 am ET\, for Coffee & Conversation with Jimmy L. Hall\, Jr.\, CIO\, Bureau of Intelligence and Research\, U.S. Department of State and Bishop Garrison\, INSA VP for Policy. \nMr. Hall will discuss some of his top priorities heading into 2025\, including: \n\nThe INR OSINT strategy and IT modernization agenda\nIntersection of AI\, OSINT\, and private sector collaboration\nWorkforce recruitment\, retention and reskilling\n\nPlus\, there will be ample time for audience Q&A!
URL:https://haydencenter.gmu.edu/event/coffee-conversation-with-jimmy-l-hall-jr/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250130T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250130T110000
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SUMMARY:BOOK PRESENTATION: Intent to Destroy: Russia's Two-hundred-year Quest to Dominate Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:SAIS Description: \nEugene Finkel\, Kenneth H. Keller Professor of International Affairs\, Johns Hopkins SAIS Europe\, discusses his latest book with Alina Polyakova\, President and CEO\, Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA).\n\nThe event is part of the workshop “America\, Europe\, and the Future of World Order in an Era of Uncertainty” – Supported by the JHU SAIS Europe Integration Fund.
URL:https://haydencenter.gmu.edu/event/book-presentation-intent-to-destroy-russias-two-hundred-year-quest-to-dominate-ukraine/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250210T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250210T140000
DTSTAMP:20250124T190303Z
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SUMMARY:Power Shifts in International Organisations: China at the United Nations
DESCRIPTION:SAIS Description: Rosemary Foot\, Professor and Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations\, University of Oxford delivers a seminar in the Bologna Institute for Policy Research Seminar Series.\n\nThe event is hosted by Nina Hall\, Assistant Professor of International Relations\, Johns Hopkins SAIS Europe.
URL:https://haydencenter.gmu.edu/event/power-shifts-in-international-organisations-china-at-the-united-nations/
LOCATION:Virtual
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SUMMARY:US\, South Korean\, and Japanese approaches to economic security
DESCRIPTION:Brookings Description: The last few months of 2024 saw momentous changes in the United States\, Japan\, and South Korea. Elections in both the United States and Japan led to leadership shifts with Donald Trump returning to the White House in 2025 and Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba presiding over a minority government. In South Korea\, President Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment after abruptly declaring martial law in December 2024 has generated political uncertainty. These political shifts will impact the future trajectory of trilateral relations. Policymakers in all three countries will need to navigate geopolitical tensions in the region by sharpening their own tools of economic statecraft and cooperating with like-minded partners where possible. \nOn February 12\, the Center for Asia Policy Studies will host a group of experts to assess current trends in economic security and their implications for U.S.-Japan-South Korea relations. The first panel will discuss the foreign investment screening regimes of each country\, and the second panel will address U.S.\, Japanese\, and Korean industrial policy in the semiconductor industry. \nThis event will be open to attend in person or watch online. Online viewers can submit questions via e-mail to events@brookings.edu or via Twitter/X using #Trilateral.
URL:https://haydencenter.gmu.edu/event/us-south-korean-and-japanese-approaches-to-economic-security/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250213T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250213T140000
DTSTAMP:20250124T191059Z
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SUMMARY:Spy Chat with Chris Costa and Colin Clarke
DESCRIPTION:Spy Museum Description: \nJoin us for an online discussion of the latest intelligence\, national security\, and terrorism issues in the news. Spy Museum Executive Director Chris Costa will lead the briefing. Costa\, a former intelligence officer of 34 years with 25 of those in active duty in hot spots such as Panama\, Bosnia\, Afghanistan\, and Iraq\, is also a past Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism on the National Security Council. He will be joined by Colin P. Clarke\, Senior Research Fellow at The Soufan Center. \nAt The Soufan Group\, Clarke’s research focuses on domestic and transnational terrorism\, international security\, and geopolitics. Prior to joining The Soufan Group\, Clarke was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University\, and a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation\, where he spent a decade researching terrorism\, insurgency\, and criminal networks. At RAND\, Clarke led studies on ISIS financing\, the future of terrorism and transnational crime\, and lessons learned from all insurgencies since the end of World War II. Clarke is also an Associate Fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague\, a non-resident Senior Fellow in the Program on National Security at the Foreign Policy Research Institute\, an Associate Fellow at the Global Network on Extremism and Technology\, and a member of the “Network of Experts” at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. In 2011\, he spent several months as an analyst with Combined Joint Interagency Task Force-Shafafiyat at ISAF headquarters in Kabul\, Afghanistan\, working for General H.R. McMaster\, the former U.S. National Security Advisor\, where he was responsible for analyzing criminal patronage networks in Afghanistan and how these networks fueled the insurgency. He has published several books on terrorism\, including his most recent\, After the Caliphate: The Islamic State and the Future Terrorist Diaspora. \nFollowing their discussion of key issues\, you’ll be able to ask questions via our online platform.
URL:https://haydencenter.gmu.edu/event/spy-chat-with-chris-costa-and-colin-clarke/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250220T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250220T213000
DTSTAMP:20250124T191948Z
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SUMMARY:2025 Charlie Allen Achievement Awards
DESCRIPTION:INSA Description: \nJoin 200+ intelligence\, national security\, homeland and defense professionals at the INSA/INSF Charlie Allen Achievement Awards taking place Thursday\, February 20 from 6:00-9:30 pm at the Army Navy Country Club in Arlington\, VA. \nThis uplifting evening will celebrate six outstanding early and mid-career professionals for their outsized impact on our nation’s national security. \nFollowing a welcome reception\, the formal program will kick off with keynote remarks from Juliane Gallina\, Deputy Director\, Directorate of Digital Innovation\, CIA. Top agency leaders will be on hand for the award ceremony\, followed by a celebratory dessert reception.
URL:https://haydencenter.gmu.edu/event/2025-charlie-allen-achievement-awards/
LOCATION:INSA/NRECA Conference Center\, Arlington\, VA
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250227T120000
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SUMMARY:The Heavy Water Sabotage Raid with Mitch Utterback
DESCRIPTION:Spy Museum Description: \nJoin us for an intense exploration of Operation Gunnerside on the 82nd anniversary of the mission. One of the Allies’ most dramatic sabotage missions of WWII\, Gunnerside was a daring plan to derail the Nazis’ scheme to build an atomic bomb. A key component of their bomb recipe was heavy water—deuterium oxide. When Germany occupied Norway\, the remote Vemork Norsk Hydro plant\, which produced heavy water\, came under Nazi control. The Allies\, desperate to prevent a nuclear-armed Germany\, devised the daring Operation Gunnerside to disable the plant. \nThe epic tale of the Norwegian commandos who parachuted onto the Vidda (mountain plateau) in the winter and skied\, climbed\, and clawed their way to the plant to blow up the heavy water reserves\, sounds like a movie\, and did become one starring Kirk Douglas! Retired US Army Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel Mitch Utterback was drawn to the famous World War II sabotage mission and recently retraced the ski tracks of the Heroes of Telemark. In 2023\, for the 80th anniversary\, Utterback and a team of 11 other military veterans recreated the perilous journey that the saboteurs took across the Vidda. Their expedition was captured in the short documentary film Hardangerfolk which brings the danger and intensity of the mission to life. Utterback’s background in special forces and his experience of the conditions that the saboteurs endured has given him a unique perspective on this epic mission which the Spy Museum features in our Covert Action gallery. \n 
URL:https://haydencenter.gmu.edu/event/the-heavy-water-sabotage-raid-with-mitch-utterback/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260917T190000
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SUMMARY:25 Years After 9/11
DESCRIPTION:🗓️ Event: 25 Years After 9/11 \n📅 Date: September 17 \n⏰ Time: 7:00 PM EDT \n✍️ Register: https://signp.e2ma.net/signup/2104996/1968319 \n📍 Location: Van Metre Hall Auditorium\, Mason Square\, 3351 N Fairfax Dr\, Arlington\, VA \n🎥 Livestream: YouTube @haydencenter \n🎓 Hosted by: Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence\, Policy\, and International Security\, Schar School of Policy and Government\, George Mason University \nTwenty-five years after 9/11\, the question is no longer simply what happened on that September morning. The question is whether we are prepared for the next one. \nA generation of Americans has grown up in the shadow of the attacks\, while the nation has fought wars\, dismantled terrorist networks\, transformed its intelligence and counterterrorism institutions\, and watched the threat evolve in ways few anticipated. Now\, as new adversaries\, technologies\, geopolitical rivalries\, and terrorist movements challenge the United States\, it is time to take an unflinching look at what the past 25 years have taught us—and where we may still be vulnerable. \nJoin the Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence\, Policy\, and International Security for an extraordinary conversation with: \n—Philip Reilly\, 29-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency\, including service as deputy commander of the legendary Operation JAWBREAKER team\, CIA’s deployment into Afghanistan just two weeks after 9/11\, as head of CIA’s paramilitary operations\, and as a chief of station in Afghanistan\, Europe\, and the Far East. \n—David Martin\, CBS News’ multiple Emmy-and DuPont-Columbia University award-winning national security correspondent since 1983\, with previous stints at Newsweek and the Associated Press. \n—Damon Stevens\, newly retired Deputy Director of the National Counterproliferation and Biosecurity Center and a former Assistant Director of the National Counterterrorism Center; \nWe are excited that Jennifer Griffin\, Fox News’ Chief National Security Correspondent\, will moderate the discussion. \nDrawing on decades spent leading\, conducting\, and reporting on America’s intelligence\, defense\, and counterterrorism efforts\, this distinguished panel will examine the lessons of 9/11\, the threats we face today\, and whether the United States is truly organized\, equipped\, and prepared to confront what comes next. \nThis is more than a look back at history—it is a conversation also about the next 25 years of American security. \nBring your questions for a live discussion with our panel. \n🍷 Reception to Follow\nAll attendees are invited to a complimentary reception with light fare. Beer and wine will be available for purchase. \n🎥 Can’t attend in person?\nWatch live–or later–on YouTube and the Hayden Center website. \nThe Hayden Center is located at George Mason University‘s Schar School of Policy and Government in Arlington\, VA. General Hayden\, our founder and former Director of both the CIA and the National Security Agency\, has been a distinguished visiting professor at Schar School for 17 years.  \nFor more about the Hayden Center\, visit our website at haydencenter.gmu.edu.  \nCatch up on all of our Hayden Center events here on our YouTube channel!
URL:https://haydencenter.gmu.edu/event/25-years-after-9-11/
LOCATION:Van Metre Hall Auditorium 3351 Fairfax Drive\, Arlington\, Virginia
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