Putin looks confident, well, this is understandable, because serbia and hungary, they have, lets say, financial projects with china, in the infrastructure sphere and not only, there in serbia, china helps to build railways, roads, and so on, and in hungary, similar, as a matter of fact, budapestbelgrade, the big, big highway, the big autobahn, which they are helping there, they are investing in it, well, but if he speaks. In general about what is happening these days in china, it is clear that sidzinpil is trying to use it in his own interests, to demonstrate that china can be a center of attraction for those who at some point in some way disagree with the policies of the west, as they say, that is, with the United States and the european union, and it is clear that they are challenging the west, this whole project in general one. Train one way, it is a struggle, a geopolitical, powerful, struggle of land against the sea, the sea, which represents globally, the United States, now repre
Eastern. Listen to it live with the free cspan cap. Ofnext, a look at the future u. S. Global leadership from the aspen institute. This portion includes senator dan sullivan. And a discussion on trade. It is an hour 10 minutes. Good morning everyone. Thank you for your patience. Im nick burns, director of the Aspen Strategy Group. This session on American Global leadership in the 21st century. I want to thank all of you for being here, members of our strategy group, dan sullivan of alaska who i am to introduce in a minute. Let me tell you about our program. We at the Aspen Strategy Group are 35 years old. We have this radical notion that even in washington there can be an organization that is resolutely nonpartisan. Resolutely nonpartisan for 35 years. Founders are bill perry much own. , rents go cross we meet to discuss and debate the big ideas about american foreignpolicy. Each year we prepare a book based on our proceedings for publication. This years book is available today. The bo
Cable television companies. And is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Former secretary of state Madeleine Albright and former National Security advisor, susan rice joined the discussion on changes to us Foreign Policy under the Trump Administration. And American Leadership in world affairs. Hosted by the Aspen Institute in washington dc, this is three hours. Good morning everyone. Good morning. Thank you for your patience. I am the director of the Aspen Strategy Group. And welcome to this session on American Global leadership in the 21st century. First i want to thank piper for giving us their space this morning. We much appreciate that. I would like to thank all of you for being here. Members of the Strategy Group. Particularly senator dan sullivan of alaska with whom i will introduce any minute. Let me tell you about the program this morning. We at the Aspen Strategy Group are 35 years old. We have this radical notion that even in washington there can be an org
As an opportunity to capture by the state and its associated special interests. And possibly get up to no good abroad. Iran is a large and sophisticated economy. About the same size in terms of population and income as turkey. An economy about 40 larger and 40 richer perperson roughly than egypt. It is much more than an oil economy or an oil state. Presanctions, it produced 1. 6 million cars. That is almost three times as many as italy produces today. Admittedly, italy is not a good example of efficiency. [laughter] i was working in italy when they were producing 2 million cars. 1975. Opening up iran has an effect on world trade and investment at a time when world trade is stuttering. The report says iran could attract the number could be much higher than that. Turkey attracted 13 billion in 2013 and turkey does not have huge oil reserves in need of technology and money to restart and expand. As for the effect on oil markets, the report stresses the biggest gain for the world economy.
Would preemptively strike it. I think its fair to say that we have opportunities within the Energy Sector to help advance this country when it comes to our Energy Security, our National Security, and our economic security. But we need to be able to move forward with that. So what we are able to do within this instruction that is pretty wide open is, is to focus on those areas where we might be able to see increased Energy Production that could bring us new wealth, create new wealth in this country. So im going to be the first to agree that some of our options within this open instructions are better than others. Some will create jobs. Some may end jobs. Some will reduce energy costs as opposed to raising them. Some will actually increase our energy and mineral security as opposed to sacrifice or selling it off. And so what i would hope that members would do is look at this instruction as an opportunity to do something constructive for the country. And the best example of that really is