For dealing with china. This is 45 minutes. Okay everyone. My name is glenn howard im the president of Jamestown Foundation we are deleted to have the ninth annual conference the assistant secretary. The position in january 28, 2018 if you dont know anything about john jamestown we are nonprofit that specializes in your eurasia with terrorism and we appreciate the people to miss will be broadcast on cspan. And the critical parts of this is that the comments are on the record he appeared last year at the jamestown ei sfoundation with a security conference that is off the record at the time so we keep progressing and to give more attention to these issues. So when the China Community a robust voice and 2008 and has been very active in this region for quite a long time in quite a distinguished career before the Armitage International different areas. And with those security trendlines. With the deputys secretary of state responsible of china mongolia and the pacific islands. One of the th
That for the plenaries here and the maryland ball room, you can email questions to the panel. And hopefully well have a logo up that says questions intelsummit. Org. Lair is going to get your questions. By the miracle of technology, theyre going to appear on an ipad with vince here. Vince, if you didnt get the word, at some point larrys going to tell you last question, okay . So, its now my pleasure to introduce the moderator of our Defense Intelligence plenary Lieutenant General vincent stewart, u. S. Marine corps come on, come on retired. Thats the part i was waiting for. And vince is the founder and ceo of stewart global solutions, an International Consulting firm. He retired from the u. S. Marine corps in april of this year after more than 38 years of service to the nation. So, join me in thanking vince for his service. A career intelligence officer, vince served as the 20th director of the Intelligence Agency where he was the first africanamerican, the first jamaican american, and
A Nonprofit Foundation in washington that deals and specializes in eurasia with terrorism and deal a lot with china. And we appreciate the people, this program or discussion today is going to be broadcast on cspan. Were very excited about getting the visibility throughout the United States and the critical importance of this speech is that randall schrivers speech today, comments are on the record. He appeared last year at the Jamestown Foundation China Defense and security conference. His comments were off the record at the time. So this year we keep progressing in how were advancing with secretary schriver and were trying to get more attention to this issue. But let me first of all say that a couple words about randy. He is has long been known in the China Community as a robust choice on china, leading strategic thinker on china. In 2008 he cofounded the project 2049 with mark stokes. Hes been very active in this region for quite a long time and has a wide and distinguished career st
Help, need more credentials , need moreskills to survive in the current economy. Watch after words at 9 pm eastern on the tv on the cspan2. The pentagon wants to put more money into developing emerging technologies, asking congress for an additional 8 billion nextbudget year. Defense Department Intelligence officials recently talked about why they have put in the Largest Research and Development Budget request in 70 years. The our 10 minute was hosted by the armed forces indications and Electronic Association and the intelligence and National Security alliance area. Thank you. I was going to try and get you fired up here because those initial plenary sessions were a little bit subdued so i want you to feel free to get enthusiastic here. We got a great coming so lots of cheering for them and are going to have a great discussion. So welcome back. Before we jump into this next session, but he reminded everyone that for the plenary share and the maryland ballroom, you can email questions t
While ago. A flat yuan on the session. Lets have a quick look at whats going on in the United States. A whipsaw of a session. S p 500 down once again. We were higher a moment ago. Down about half a percent. Chairman powell speaking at the jackson hole symposium. The 10year, not a lot of movement. There was some movement in soybeans. We had a big drop only got this china headlines to the effect that china is retaliating for u. S. Tariffs. Publishable soybeans now about three quarters of a percent lower. Crude went down we got those headlines that exporting crude will be more expensive for exporters. We are still down about 1. 9 on wti. Lets get back to fed chairman powells speech in jackson hole. Joining us is matt. I make point to President Trumps tweets for thanking the fed for doing a big nothing and saying it is unclear who the u. S. s bigger enemy is, Jerome Powell or chairman xi. Very strange tweet. Atmagine thats a topic jackson hole people are talking about. The president s infl