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"We Stand with Free People" — U.K. Security & Strategy with Tom Tugendhat

2025/2/17
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Tom Tugendhat: 作为安全大臣，我的工作性质特殊，虽然隶属于内政部，但又相对独立，可以直接向首相汇报某些事务，并与其他政府部门合作。我的职责包括监督情报部门的预算，直接监管国内情报工作，并对其他情报部门进行辅助监督。这使我对正在发生的大部分事情有更深入的了解。在女王去世后，我立即参与了葬礼的组织工作，这是一项重大的公共活动，需要保护成千上万聚集的人群，同时确保安保措施不会显得具有侵略性或令人反感。此外，我还负责协调大约100位外国政要的到访，这无疑是一次严峻的考验。

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Member of U.K. Parliament and military veteran Tom Tugendhat was recently in Washington and was kind enough to join Ryan for a short but weighty conversation. Tugendhat chaired the Foreign Affairs Select Committee between 2017 and 2022 and then served in the previous government as minister of state for security. They discussed his time in government as well as the landscape of threats, including (not surprisingly) Russia — and how the war might best end — as well as China, informed by his recent trip to Taiwan. Please note this episode was recorded before the Munich Security Conference.