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THE 2024 ASPEN SECURITY FORUM: DC EDITION
December 4, 2024 | WASHINGTON, DC
THE 2025 ASPEN SECURITY FORUM
July 15 - 18, 2025 | ASPEN, CO
This Week's Content Highlights
The Aspen Security Forum in the News
Heather Adkins and Phil Venables for Google: "Introducing the Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI) and Founding Member Organizations"
Jim Garamone for DOD News: "Chairman Puts Strategic Picture in Focus During Aspen Talk"
Georgi Kantchev for The Wall Street Journal: “Falsely Accused WSJ Reporter Evan Gershkovich in Court for Hearing in Secret Russian Trial”
Mary Louise Kelly, Sarah Handel, and Jordan-Marie Smith for NPR: "'We're Inside the 10-Yard Line': Secretary of State on an Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Deal"
Ellen Knickmeyer for AP News: “Ukraine Defense Chief Says His Nation Will Find a Way No Matter Who Wins U.S. Election”
David E. Sanger for The New York Times: “What Happened to Digital Resilience?”
Guy Taylor for The Washington Times: "Top U.S. General: 'We've Got to Do Better' at Countering China, Russia in America's Own Neighborhood"
Nahal Toosi for POLITICO: “At Aspen Conference, Worries About What Comes After Attack on Trump”
Li Ya for Voice of America: "Former Diplomats, Google CEO Discuss Possible Impact of Trump, Biden Victories"
Rising Leaders Program Highlights
Features from ASG Rising Leaders
The Rising Leaders Class of 2024 joined us in Aspen for the 15th annual Aspen Security Forum last week. Thank you to everyone who has donated to support this program! Stay tuned for more announcements about the Rising Leaders Program and look out for their policy paper book, which will be published later this year.
Things to Know
Content Relevant to Aspen Security Forum Discussions
Vanessa Buschschlüter for BBC News: “Edmundo González: The Man Taking on Maduro for Venezuela's Presidency”
Matthew Dalton and Noemie Bisserbe for The Wall Street Journal: “Threats to Olympics Turn Paris Into an Open-Air Fortress”
Matthew Duss for Foreign Policy: “Harris Candidacy Gives Democrats a Chance to Pivot on Gaza”
Elizabeth Economy interviewed by Dan Kurtz-Phelan for Foreign Affairs: “China’s Vision for a New World Order”
Dexter Filkins for The New Yorker: “Will Hezbollah and Israel Go to War?”
Kathrin Hille for the Financial Times: “The Flashpoints That Threaten a Détente Between China and the Philippines”
David Ignatius for The Washington Post: “The UAE Tries to Pull off an ‘Abraham Redux’ in Gaza”
Peter Mwai, Girmay Gebru, and Merlyn Thomas for BBC News: “Satellite Images and Doctor Testimony Reveal Tigray Hunger Crisis”
Paul Sonne for The New York Times: “Russia and China Carry Out First Joint Bomber Patrol Near Alaska”
Susan Rice interviewed by Lawrence O’Donnell for MSNBC: “VP Harris ‘Ready to Serve as Commander-in-Chief’”
Meaghan Tobin and Cade Metz for The New York Times: “China Is Closing the A.I. Gap With the United States”
Salil Tripathi for Foreign Policy: “The Deep Roots of Bangladesh’s Crisis”
Highlights From the Aspen Security Forum
Revisit our most watched videos from the 2024 Aspen Security Forum.
Ng Eng Hen, Minister of Defence, Singapore
Moderator: Ravi Agrawal, Editor in Chief, Foreign Policy
Robert M. Gates, Partner, Rice, Hadley, Gates and Manuel; 22nd U.S. Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense
Condoleezza Rice, Co-Chair, Aspen Strategy Group; 66th U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State
Moderator: David Sanger, White House and National Security Correspondent, The New York Times
Stephen Biegun, Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State
Alan F. Estevez, Under Secretary of Industry and Security, U.S. Department of Commerce
Anja Manuel, Executive Director, Aspen Strategy Group and Aspen Security Forum
Eric Schmidt, Chair, Special Competitive Studies Project; Former CEO of Google
Moderator: Demetri Sevastopulo, U.S.-China Correspondent, Financial Times
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