Business climate in china and how it could affect trade relations with the u. S. This is one hour. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. If you will kindly take your seats. Latecomers will be accommodated. There are handouts over on the right you will want to have with you or take away with you. Please help yourself to some coffee. Welcome to the u. S. China Business Council. This is a press conference talking about our annual member survey, and it will be done in three parts. The first part i will introduce our president , craig allen, and then after that our Senior Vice President , jake parker, will walk you through some of the highlights of the survey, and then we will open it to questions. So at this point, its my pleasure to introduce you to president alan. Alan good morning, everyone, and thank you very much for joining us today. My name again is craig allen and the president of the u. S. China Business Council, and we would like to welcome you here to discuss our most recent surve