Margaret thank you to all of you for joining us tonight, to our dedicated staff here at George Washington university. To our media partner, cbs news and sirius xm and our incredible production team. Thanks for helping the Bipartisan Policy Center sponsor this wonderful debate. Its the fourth in a series by the senate project. Tonight promises to be an interesting and informative discussion on some of the most Critical Issues facing our country and our world. We are honored that senator chris coons and senator marco rubio agreed to participate in this important program. Thanks to both of them. As you saw in those two video, the genesis of the senate project came from two u. S. Senators who had very different points of view but looked for Common Ground. Youll be hearing from senator tom daschle in a moment with more on their relationship and what it meant for the senate as an institution and for our country and all of us. I also have the privilege of collaborating with senators kennedy a
Let me start from the top. Our universities today are getting universally dependent on foreign students. Many of them Chinese Students who pay full tuition. That is my first point. 2, there are Disciplines Research that the universities do, that are critical to National Defense and to our economy in some ways. We have two seriously limit the students who are involved in that, so this is not a revolving door and pipeline straight back to china, korea, russia, or whatever, of our technology and research. As ilaria pointed out, coupled with that should be the ability to apply this commercially, to take it to use. So, yes, the answer is we have to look at who we have enrolled in these disciplines in our universities. Take a good, hard look at that. Thank you very much. Commissioner shriver . Just my thanks to the witnesses, most at least most of my questions have been addressed. I will pass point the mission or wessel . Thank you. Dr. Gopal, i appreciate your recognition of rahman barrys w
Coupled with that should be the ability of how we apply this and take it commercial. So, the answer is that we have to look at who we have enrolled into many of these disciplines in several of our universities. To take a good hard look at that. Thank you very much. Commissioner schreiber. I just want to add my thanks to the witnesses and i think most of my questions have been addressed. Commissioner wessel . Thank you. I appreciate your recognition of robin barrys work. They have been toiling in this field as you have any years. You referred to and used the term willful blindness and i appreciate your recognition of the longterm work of this commission. I will argue to you that blindness continues to Cloud Visibility as to many of the challenges we face. You know, recently in appreciating the work of the administration on an outbound executive they need an Outbound Investment executive order, it is Still Limited in terms of providing us the data on critical supply chains. Batteries, ph
Margaret thank you to all of you for joining us tonight, to our dedicated staff here at George Washington university. To our media partner, cbs news and sirius xm and our incredible production team. Thanks for helping the Bipartisan Policy Center sponsor this wonderful debate. Its the fourth in a series by the senate project. Tonight promises to be an interesting and informative discussion on some of the most Critical Issues facing our country and our world. We are honored that senator chris coons and senator marco rubio agreed to participate in this important program. Thanks to both of them. As you saw in those two video, the genesis of the senate project came from two u. S. Senators who had very different points of view but looked for Common Ground. Youll be hearing from senator tom daschle in a moment with more on their relationship and what it meant for the senate as an institution and for our country and all of us. I also have the privilege of collaborating with senators kennedy a
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