Issues at my time in congress. If you have some questions, i will take questions today. I want offer my condolences to the people of australia for the tragic loss of life and property from the wildfires across that region. Americas thoughts and prayers are with them in the personnel putting their selves in harms way and the dozens of u. S. Firefighting personnel standing sidebyside with our australian friends fighting the flames. This was in sidney just past summer, we had a truly Unbreakable Alliance and they are great friends and we are happy to be able to help the aussies in this time of need. In asia, we noted the appointment of the new head of the Hong Kong Chinese liaison office. He has expressed hopes that hong ong will return to the right path. The right path, as i said before, is for the Chinese Party to commit to the independent rule of law and freedoms that the chinese living on the mainland unfortunately do not enjoy. They will continue to work with hong kong and the Chines
Without further ado please join me in welcoming carla hill and the speakers to the panel. applause again thank, you thank you. Big well im going to encourage you to take your seats and to join the conversation here, we heard and a prior Panel Questions about trade and not so many answers so we brought together a stellar panel that really represents a broad segment a of the western hemisphere and you could not find greater talent, so it is my great honor to introduce the panelists who will talk to you about rethinking our trade agenda and the, in the americas and its a challenging topic, we live in and certain times, not only in the western hemisphere but globally. But what we do in the western hemisphere can set an example and let me just tell you a sentence or two about each of our panelists. Sitting to my left is secretary mrsa birch or, who was appointed last october, the argentine as, secretary of International Trade in the ministry of production and labor, her assignment as descri
Got some pretty good clear skies you across much of japan over the next couple of days it stay dry and it will stay dry through the end of the week in the start of the weekend so 22 celsius intake and some pretty good sunny skies color to the north into her guide to the winds are coming from the colder north and west and weve got most of his guys across the Korean Peninsula as well the cloud begins to push in from the west on saturday but staying fine for most falls across into much of a central japan now vietnam is where were seeing the very heavy amounts of rain a lot of this in fact most of this really is coming from the remnants of what was a Tropical Storm so this will continue to impact northern and coastal areas of it and over the next 23. 00 days we could see as much as 300. 00 millimeters of rain certainly around 200. 00 fairly widespread throughout much of the country meanwhile 28. 00 celsius in hong kong feeling a bit humid but mostly dry with some sunshine and that rain is
Hi im Steve Clements and i have a question is america an ally that can be trusted lets get to the bottom line. Ever since the United States adopted its america 1st stance nato has been lambasted crimeas annexation looks permanent south korea was told they should pay for the us bases in their country and theres a renewed attempt to get out of the socalled forever wars in the middle east so can anyone blame americas allies if theyre confused does anyone believe that the us will stand by them in their time of need is america 1st really mean america alone or in america on the sidelines of the big global challenges well were very fortunate today because we have 3 people in the room that have all d the answers to these questions kelly playhouses the executive editor of the american conservative magazine James Carafano works on National Security and Foreign Policy at the Heritage Foundation and richard fontayne heads the center for a new American Security great to have all of you with us here
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