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
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From the dean of the Miami Harvard Business School and we have a lot to get cute but. We begin with the unemployment numbers as weekly jobless claims took an unexpected turn for the worse now for the week ending september 19th Labor Department reported 870000 americans filed for unemployment thats up from the week prior with 166000 the Labor Department remains stuck at a pretty high level here still above their peak 65065000 during the Great Recession that was between 20072009 the data comes as u. S. Lawmakers still havent come to an agreement on a new round of stimulus something the Federal Reserve argues is needed for economic recovery earlier this week Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell and u. S. Treasury secretary Stephen Newton well they expressed concerns over more need for aid. Password will depend on keeping the virus under control and on policy all see actions taken at all levels of government we continue to work with congress on a bipartisan basis to pass a face for Relie
A high stakes game of poker because what Boris Johnson was Prime Minister is trying to sort of could jolt push and blackmail the e. U. Into the into the position that they say ok rather than have this bill that will create the endless trouble in Northern Ireland and was the keeping the borders between the republic of ireland and all of ireland open trade flowing and all those important things rather than sort of get into that dangerous zone we will give them the trade deal it seems a bit far fetched but more or less along those lines of thinking seems to be going in london and the youth is calling their bluff and saying ok were not going to play that way because well take you to court over this you have to take the spec we will not engage in those sorts of games and you diplomats make it quite clear if the internal market builders incriminated bill is not taken back by the end of the is not going to be a trade deal coming into force a bigot in london do you agree or is this all just ta
Disinformation is a major topic we need to discuss. We need to share our experiences in dealing with china. A forum where we can review all aspects of the chinese presence in europe, globally, and how we deal with that. They plan to kick this off. We are looking for a date in the near future. Trying to do scheduling. I think we are resigned to the fact that this may have to be virtual. Step in person. Just given the pandemic requirements. The deputy secretary has agreed to participate in a number of conversations. Directors of all the Member States will gather and have this on their agenda. The german presidency. That is an opportunity for Member States to engage. At both member state experiences and overall approach. I hope we can kick this off. We can see this as a longterm project. So we can really Exchange Ideas and experiences. Thank you. I dont think anyone would disagree that this will be a long project. As you know, i and members of introducettee legislation to strengthen ameri