Good afternoon and welcome to the council on foreign relations. I am president of the council and we are delighted and honored to have this is the first officiale program. Thi see a lot of friends out there, members of congress and its a particular honor. At the council for a couple of days and the chairman and the Ranking Member with us and congressman. Talking to businesses and a wide range of stakeholders about this we would love to get your perspective on first and foremost chinas role in the global economy. A. China has driven about a third of global growth. Do you want to china to slow down and the growth to slow down. Thank you for your hospitality. For those who dont know we have about ten members of our committee here. We started the day off by going to the 9 11 ceremony at ground zero which is very powerful and we will have a series of engagements today with people from the financial and economic leaders. A lot of wall street leaders and tonight we will do a tabletop exercise
Im sick and tired of not getting anything done. My full name, your listeners, please record this. My full name is martin hufford. My number is 717562 host you can continue watching washington journal if you go to our website, cspan. Org. We leave this to join the discussion on the Chinese Communist party, on u. S. Competition with china. This event hosted by the council on foreign relations. Wait for one of these microphones can introduce yourself, and then ask your question. For those joining virtually, click on the raisedhand icon at any point. If you hear your name called out, click on the unmute prompt. Your video will remain off but your microphone will be unmuted. Thank you, everyone. Well, good afternoon, and welcome to the council on foreign relations. Im mike froman, president of the council, and we are delighted to have this is our First Official program of the school year, so to speak. I see a lot of friends out there, members of congress as well. For me its a particular hon
Im sick and tired of not getting anything done. My full name, your listeners, please record this. My full name is martin hufford. My number is 717562 host you can continue watching washington journal if you go to our website, cspan. Org. We leave this to join the discussion on the Chinese Communist party, on u. S. Competition with china. This event hosted by the council on foreign relations. Wait for one of these microphones can introduce yourself, and then ask your question. For those joining virtually, click on the raisedhand icon at any point. If you hear your name called out, click on the unmute prompt. Your video will remain off but your microphone will be unmuted. Thank you, everyone. Well, good afternoon, and welcome to the council on foreign relations. Im mike froman, president of the council, and we are delighted to have this is our First Official program of the school year, so to speak. I see a lot of friends out there, members of congress as well. For me its a particular hon
Told me to tell you. To every man there comes a time in his life when he is figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a great and mighty work, unique to him thats church hill. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress is dependent upon the unreasonable man. Michael jordan was unreasonable enough to think that he could play in the nba even though he got cut from his high school team. Jesus christ was unreasonable enough to think through him being lifted up, all men could be forgiven for their sins. Barack obama was unreasonable enough to think he could do a good job for black folks, but he failed, but i digress. Donald trump and steve bannon are two of the most unreasonable people in the world. Steve bannon is unreasonable enough to think that the black vote, the black business community, the the latino, asian business community, has value. This guy is busy as heck all over the world,
More African Americans involved in the republican party. So, im going to introduce to you guys your speaker, but my friend. Some of you have heard me ask this in the past. There are a lot of new folks here. How many of you all consider yourselves reasonable people . Most of you all. You all are the wrong people. [ laughter ] how many of you all are familiar with George Bernard shaw, the british play right . Yeah, i had breakfast with him this morning, and heres what he told me to tell you. To every man there comes a time in his life when he is figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a great and mighty work, unique to him thats church hill. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress is dependent upon the unreasonable man. Michael jordan was unreasonable enough to think that he could play in the nba even though he got cut from his high school team. Jesus christ was unreasonable enough