Discussion. Theres going theres going to be pressure from the bottom up. People cannot live under those conditions. The chinese know this, the chinese know and there are real worries about the chinese and about what that instability will lead to in terms of them. So that that leads me to my third point, that is, when we talk about china, its not getting china involved, china is very involved with the consequences. It may have its own agenda about what it wants to do this. The question is, besides pressure on china, and we have heard a lot what are the ways of partnership with china lacks what do you see as opportunities at this moment to be dealing with . Thank you very much. Very insightful thoughts and questions. If there is no other Opening Statements im going to move to the panel first of all introducing three great experts on this issue. First is the Senior Adviser and the chair of the center for study jack and International Studies. Its good to see you again. A the Senior Researc
We talk a lot about infrastructure on this show. So let me just remind you of what the state of americas infrastructure is. If you got a grade, it would be a dplus. Im talking about our roads, our bridges, rare ways communications and more. Collectively they get nothing more than a dplus. This report card was put out in 2013 by the American Society of civil engineers. Arguebly they may have a dog in this hunt, but not only are we not doing enough to modernize our public infrastructure, were barely maintaining what we have now. President obama has spent years calling for a publicprivate Infrastructure Bank that could jump start financing on big projects. The idea would be to attract billions of dollars in investment from the private sector to Fund Infrastructure fixes and upgrades in return investors would receive guarantees from the federal government that could serve to attract more private investors into public projects. That idea has gone nowhere, and its going nowhere now that we h
We talk a lot about infrastructure on this show. So let me just remind you of what the state of americas infrastructure is. If you got a grade it would be a dplus. Im talking about our roads our bridges, rare ways, communications and more. Collectively they get nothing more than a dplus. This report card was put out in 2013 by the American Society of civil engineers. Arguebly they may have a dog in this hunt, but not only are we not doing enough to modernize our public infrastructure, were barely maintaining what we have now. President obama has spent years calling for a publicprivate Infrastructure Bank that could jump start financing on big projects. The idea would be to attract billions of dollars in investment from the private sector to Fund Infrastructure fixes and upgrades in return investors would receive guarantees from the federal government that could serve to attract more private investors into public projects. That idea has gone nowhere and its going nowhere now that we hav
We talk a lot about infrastructure on this show. So let me just remind you of what the state of americas infrastructure is. If you got a grade, it would be a dplus. Im talking about our roads, our bridges, rare ways communications and more. Collectively they get nothing more than a dplus. This report card was put out in 2013 by the American Society of civil engineers. Arguebly they may have a dog in this hunt, but not only are we not doing enough to modernize our public infrastructure, were barely maintaining what we have now. President obama has spent years calling for a publicprivate Infrastructure Bank that could jump start financing on big projects. The idea would be to attract billions of dollars in investment from the private sector to Fund Infrastructure fixes and upgrades in return investors would receive guarantees from the federal government that could serve to attract more private investors into public projects. That idea has gone nowhere, and its going nowhere now that we h
You can ask if youre trying to do intelligence to make better policy. On ukraine, i havent really looked hard at it. It was kind of in motion when i got there so i dont think i have a very tutored view of how well we did or didnt do it. Of course it depends a lot on what you think mr. Putins time horizon and Decision Making was like. I think well make this the last question with one wrapup question from me. Then i think youre all then, after then, invited to a reception outside, too. Joe marks from politico. Want to follow up on the Cyber Security issue that you mentioned a couple of times. You said it was one of the things you were looking at most in the long range. Im wondering how nic looks an issue like cyber where you are looking at technological change over a series of 10 or 15 years as opposed to one Nations National interest. Well me pile on to that since this is the closing question. Lets take that one, and also your expanding to and this is not entirely cyber. Its broader in