Thank you, everyone, very much for joining us today. Why dont we get started. I am paul saunders, the executive director of the center for the National Interest. Were pleased to see such a big group in the middle of august in washington. The traffic led me to think that the city was a little bit depopulated, but attendance clearly demonstrates otherwise and we appreciate all of you taking the time to come and be with us. We appreciate all of you taking the time to come be with us. I think we will have very interesting conversation today onut the new u. S. Sanctions russia. We have a couple of highly experienced speakers who will give us some perspective on that and we are quite grateful to them for taking the time out of their day to be with us. To my right we have dan russell, the president and ceo of the u. S. Russia business council. Diplomatformer career who was Deputy Assistant secretary of state responsible for russia, ukraine, moldova, belarus, and other matters. During the prev
Thank you, everyone, very much for joining us today. Why dont we get started. I am paul saunders, the executive director of the center for the National Interest. Were pleased to see such a big group in the middle of august in washington. The traffic led me to think that the city was a little bit depopulated, but attendance clearly demonstrates otherwise and we appreciate all of you taking the time to come and be with us. We appreciate all of you taking the time to come be with us. I think we will have very interesting conversation today onut the new u. S. Sanctions russia. We have a couple of highly experienced speakers who will give us some perspective on that and we are quite grateful to them for taking the time out of their day to be with us. To my right we have dan russell, the president and ceo of the u. S. Russia business council. Diplomatformer career who was Deputy Assistant secretary of state responsible for russia, ukraine, moldova, belarus, and other matters. During the prev
Thank you very much for joining us, i am paul saunders, executive director, pleased to see such a big group in the middle of august in washington. The traffic led me to think the city was depopulated that it clearly demonstrates otherwise and we appreciate you taking the time to be with us. We have interesting conversation about the new us sanctions on russia, and highly experienced speakers will give us some perspective and quite grateful to them for taking their time to be with us. Tomy right, dan russell, the president and ceo of the us russia business council. Dan is a former career diplomat, Deputy Assistant secretary of state responsible for russia, ukraine, belarus, arms control and other matters. During the previous administration, the Obama Administration, deputy chief at the us embassy in moscow in dan. To the left is george beebe, senior director for director for intelligence programs at the center of the nassau interest, george was career Us Intelligence professional, the r
Director of the center for National Interest. A bigleased to see such group in the middle of august and washington. The traffic led me to think the city was a little bit depopulated but the attendance clearly demonstrates otherwise. We appreciate all of you taking the time to come be with us. I think we will have very interesting conversation today onut the new u. S. Sanctions russia. We have a couple of highly experienced speakers who will give us some perspective on that and we are quite grateful to them for taking the time out of their day to be with us. To my right we have dan russell, the president and ceo of the u. S. Russia business council. Diplomatformer career who was Deputy Assistant secretary of state responsible for russia, ukraine, moldova, belarus, and other matters. During the previous administration, the Obama Administration, he was also the deputy chief at the u. S. Embassy embassyw and the u. S. In cause extent in addition to a number of other important posts. George
We have world coverage here on daybreak asia. We will look at chinas latest move to boost the economy and find out why bhp has cut its copper forecast. Here in new york we look at the risk surrounding trumps tracks tax plan to be unveiled. And netflix trying to break into china. An incredibly contentious investor wells fargo investor meeting in seattle. More members narrowly surviving that shareholder vote. This is daybreak asia live from bloombergs u. S. And asian headquarters. I am betty liu where it is just after 7 00. I am yvonne man. We will hold onto the big gaps we saw after the French Election. We are talking about hitting records again on wall street. It seems earnings was a big driver today. Earnings as well as the anticipation we will get and be delivered this immense tax reform which includes a big tax rate,he corporate that will bring the animals. Back to the business world. We have seen it so many times, the anticipation of this is enough to drive the markets to these rec