Developing space projects. Please welcome Christian Zur of the Space Industry Council, us chamber of commerce. Good morning and thank you to the chamber of commerce, launching the space economy. Our Second Annual space summit. Events such as this are team effort and we appreciate the support of our sponsors, boeing, northrup, rocket lab, one web, hawkeye 360, we have been busy in the past year from policy discussions ranging from management of commercial aviation and space launch airspace to small satellite encryption and the orbit assurance, commercial opportunities aboard the iss and future gateway. We convened a roundtable for the coast guard regarding the need for greater use of space surveillance in the arctic waterways. And Space Industry Council has an effort for policy pursuits. Fortunately we have an enthusiastic space industry ceo. And it sums up the chambers approach to the entire sector for which i will quote. Harnessing the potential of space will be no easy feat. It took
In december 28th china marks the 40th anniversary of its Economic Reform Program president xi jinping announced that the efforts would continue. To find that there is no text book for reform and development. And no one is in a position to dictate to us what we should or should not do. Shes warning was almost certainly directed at u. S. President donald trump who has criticized chinas trade policies since the day he took office. They engage in relentless product dumping. Forced. Technology transfer and the theft of intellectual property but those days are over. The United States has Just Announced tariffs on another 200000000000. 00 in chinese made goods for a total so far of 250000000000. 00 chinas market distortions. And the way they deal. Cannot be tolerated. The tensions between washington and beijing have put germany in a difficult position at the 21000 Munich Security Conference chancellor Angela Merkel to try to explain why china behaves the way it does. And you know she nothing
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Good morning, and welcome to the u. S. Chamber of commerce and to launch, the space economy, our Second Annual space summit. Events such as this are a team effort and we deeply appreciate the support of our sponsors, boeing, northrop, rocket lab, oneweb, hawkeye 360, and ascend. We have been businessy over the past year. From policy discussions ranging from management of commercial aviation and space launch airspace, to small satellite encryption and deorbit insurance and commercial opportunities aboard the iss and future gateway. We even convened a roundtable with a commandant of the u. S. Coast guard regarding the need of greater use of spaceenabled surveillance of the arctic waterways. Suffice to say the chambers procurement and Space Industry Council has an everexpanding set of policy pursuits. Fortunately, we have an enthusiastic space industry ceo here at the chamber. After last years summit tom donahue bro an articwrote an ar which i will quote. He wrote, harnessing the economic
Saturday as an awful day. As thousands of personnel tackle raging infernos, the countrys Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, has been heavily criticised for being on holiday in hawaii, but the pm has cut short his trip to return home. I get it that people would have been upset to know that i was holidaying with my family while their families were under great stress. They know that i am not going to stand there and hold a hose, iam not a trained firefighter. Im conforted by the fact that australians would like me to be herejust simply so i can be here. An areas the size of belgium has been torched by the fires. Hundreds of homes have been destroyed and at least ten people killed. Two firefighters are among those to have lost their lives. This week has seen record high temperatures repeatedly broken. With australia hotting up, the Prime Minister says the government would take action on Climate Change. There is no argument about the links between, in my view and the governments view, and any