America. This is just over two hours. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Welcome everyone and good morning. Senatorsing to have participating both live and virtually. Since it is difficult to determine when they showed up virtually, we will go on seniority. If that is agreeable, that is what we will do. Three we welcome witnesses. David stillwell, secretary of state for east asia and pacific affairs. The senior pacific official. Assistant to pity secretary for western affairs. Today, of course, we are going to be talking about china. Obviously, china presents us with many challenges. With opportunities also. Right now, challenges. Ofre has been a lot legislation introduced as far as china is concerned. Bill we introduced earlier that tries to bring together as many as possible. I am told as recently as today or yesterday, the minority introduced a bill of which senator schumer is the lead sponsor, i am told. In any event, this is not a partisan issue. This is an
To Hudson Institute. Im flexing your fellow here who focuses on northeast asia economics and technology issues. Thank you for going yesterday for our important event titled furthering u. S. Japan collaboration on Communication Security. Communications is essential to our modern economies as themando increase. There are, of course, a lot of concerns about the diversity ofs infrastructure whether it is undersea cables, satellites, various as open ram and the security, Cyber Security throughout these systems. Weve pulled together an excellent panel today to talk about this. Folks from both the u. S. And japan who are experts in thisdi, i should say, coming from various different agencies and organizations. But we will do is i will give brief introductions and then allow them to share their wisdom. Afterwards, we will open up for questions and answers from the audience. I encourage everyone to think about what they would like to ask. And that will be it. Up first, to my left we have the De
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[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and visit ncicap. Org] good morning, welcome tim flexing your fellow here who focuses on northeast asia economics and technology issues. Thank you for going yesterday for our important event titled furthering u. S. Japan collaboration on Communication Security. Communications is essential to our modern economies as the demand for flow continues to increase. There are, of course, a lot of concerns about the diversity of Telecommunications Infrastructure whether it is undersea cables, satellites, various technologies such as open ram and the security, c security throughout these systems. Weve pulled together an excellent panel today to talk about this. Folks from both the u. S. And japan who are experts in this field. Diverse expertise in this field i should say, coming from various different agencies and organizations. But we will do is i will give brief introductions and then allow