Colonel is a special assistance to the North University provost. He integrates University Departments to expand expeditionary opportunities to students so that you may learn what is like to travel abroad into lead abroad. He has done a minus other things here at Norwich University and part of that is to do with him being rotc but also his hopes and helping each one of you to be better leaders and leaving here to be the moderator of this panel. His bio is extensive i could spend time reading but i will keep it short. As i mentioned he is retired, United States air force and air force academy and the university of north carolina. His military career include three commands and for those of you who will be aviators, 6000 flying hours in combat missions in for complex. Lets welcome the kernel. [applause] thank you, travis. Thank you for attending Norwich University writers symposium, panel of warfare in the 21st century. Future battlegrounds. My name is andy heard, you and i, we are privile
Hes done a tremendous amount of things here and part of that has to do with him being stationed here and also for his hopes in helping each one of you to become better leaders and also today being the moderator of the panel. I could spend a lot of time reading about the incredible things hes done but i will keep it short. He is retired United States air force and went to the air force academy and university of north carolina. The Courier Logistics and airlift included three commands and for those that will be aviators, 6,000 flying hours in combat missions. [applause] thank you for attending the university military writers Symposium Panel at the 21st century future battlegrounds you and i are very privileged today at the peace and war center and organizefor center andorganizede with experts of the 21st century conflict. The experts on the panel are global thought leaders intimate with the battle both in planning and direct action. From their professional experience yours is to develop
Good morning. Welcome to the Wilson Center. Im the director of the Brazil Center here at the center. It is a pleasure to have you he here. This period is marked by i would say mostly difficult negative news with one good news at the very end of this period of six months which is the announcement of the agreement between the European Union 20 years in the making. Whether the agreement will be implemented remains obviously a question mark. There will be detailed negotiations now at the different elements of the agreement. Its a complicated matter, but its important that the agreement has been confirmed. Also quite important is the lift of veto the United States had on negotiations between brazil and the oecg geared towards brazi s brazils. This is a very important development. Was an accomplishment of president bolsonaros visit here in washington in april. Again, remains to be seen how the negotiations between brazil and the countries of oecg will develop. We know this was accomplished t
China is a partner with us. We exchange students, exchange faculty come all for the betterment of scholarship and for research. Not directly involved in those sordid discussions but it bears, we may be able to play along the way we might think about how we can be helpful to someone. I will add one more point because its important. Theyre making a lot of judicial changes. They established a special is ip core to your ip cases. This is a national court, not local. Its a national court, very much looking through it as an experience or judicial reform, greater amount of transparency into the recordation of their opinions, allowance of our discovery and maybe even greater damages or towards along the lines for ip rights. Those are positive changes were looking forward to. I think theyre working very hard on. I think it is a positive step. Out of are basing office weve been working with the ip court in the last six months they been established. Doing training for the judges and holding faire
About the policy. That is an improvement in the eyes of most reporters. If you are asking whether the press office or press secretary acted as an advocate on behalf of reporters in terms of access to be president and meetings taking place at the white house, that has not been my experience in this administration. The second half of that question was regarding access to wires. We had seen in previous administrations would be a mystery she would come up with a policy and be excited about it. When you talk to people at the front lines, they have no idea there has been in changing with the are supposed to do. Is there a Communications Gap . Do the people have the information they do not care chimbote you have a sense of what is happening . The great do you have a sense of what is happening . People have enough swatge to reach swathe to reach down into the a magician and make things happen. The administration and make things happen. That is usually the feedback that produces positive change