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That is from the American Enterprise institute, live at 5 30 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Next, we hear about Chinas Nuclear Weapons Program and differing views between china and the u. S. On Nuclear Policy. This is one hour, 30 minutes. Good morning. My name is bill burns. Im the president of the Carnegie Endowment for international peace. It really is a pleasure to welcome all of you to what i think [no audio] program today. It is a great pleasure to welcome back to carnegie on our distinguished of people from carnegie. [no audio] formerly the director of the moscow center. [no audio] Evan Medeiros was a Junior Member fellow at carnegie and has gone on to do wonderful government, most recently as an advisor on asia. N now is the managing director of your asia group and also a nonresident senior scholar here at carnegie. To welcomeeasure back a wonderful colleague and friend, linton brooks. Words many years ago, he has gone on to make and contributions to National Security policy, not only
Sheer, whos our assistant secretary of defense for east asia in the pacific. You know that david was had come back from hanoi to do this job. He was our u. S. Ambassador there. David is an expert on china and Southeast Asia. I think for many of us who are sort of in the trenches every day on these issues, couldnt think of a better person for the pentagon to put into this role. Next to him is one of the top Southeast Asiaenists in the United States, and he also is singapores ambassador to the United States. Aspoke. He was most recently singapores ambassador to indonesia. He was in the past has been singapores ambassador also to australia. And to quaul la lumpur and has a long history in Singapore Foreign affairs working on asiarelated affairs. And finally, a good friend and a real hero of Southeast Asia and asian policy in the senate is chris bros. He works with senator mccain in senator mccains office. Previous before that he was senior staffer in the Senate Armed Services committee. A
And deny they are doing it. Ive been on business trips and i see them come into the Economic Zone and using violence. I think the truth of all this is to paraphrase, because im conscious that you have a program to attend to. I have to be out the door in a minute. I get the question. I think if you were to go through the analysis of each of the disputes from north to south, each has its own internal character isti characteristics. I would have different resolutions on each of them. Having spent some time looking at the underpinning legalness concern i concerning this and the positions of all seven parties, this is a highly variable feast. Its not just that we have chosen to be neutral. Theres a reason to be neutral. That is that the underpinning legal cases are if they came to jurisdiction, are so complex. If we had another hour, we could go through each of these individually. I think that would be tiresome for people in the gathering. Rather than have an adjudicat n adjudication, i poi
Chinese people are looking at that too. That has to do with the rule of law. I believe talked about it. We want everybody to observe the rule of law. Experience of the last two decades has shown that ability to observe the rule of law, in many aspects, including the wto, the manipulation of currency, the protection of its own markets, and many other problems. Communismfferent than and democracy. I am asking you which must . All of you. How to move forward so that china can observe the rule of law so we can develop a better trust and have a more stable and peaceful regional and global development, especially in the south East China Sea maam, this is a lot of questions. Just one, rule of law. Will become ana democracy. That reminds me of a book, at the end of the cold war. Basically what was said is liberty and democracy prevails with the collapse of the former soviet union. What we saw today was so Many Political chaos in young democracies like thailand, and theukraine, egypt, sovereign