The show. A new Prime Minister for japan tokyos parliament confirms your shahid a sukkah as successor to shinzo all day the former Health Minister says his priorities are fighting the pandemic and strengthening japans whaling and cars. And israel signs historic agreements after the white house with bahrain and the United Arab Emirates establishing diplomatic relations present trump says theyre just the 1st of many such deals to come. Im brian thomas could have you with us today European Commission president to ursula fong the lion will shortly give her 1st state of the Union Address shes expected to unveil her vision for a more ambitious. Climate deal for the block migration also expected to figure prominently final line will also outline plans to relaunch europes economy which has been hard hit by the coronavirus and denmark. Lets go live now to the abuse of Brussels Bureau chief alexander phenomena whos standing by there for us where the speech is about to begin shortly this speech a
The committee will come to order. Thank you all for coming today, i dont think all of you for being here. It is our honor to have the deputy secretary of state here to testify on u. S. Policy regarding peoples republic of china. I originally defaulting back in march, however, our need to focus on the Community Protests from doing that. It is important this committee continue its work on its most committing Foreign Policy challenges, obviously china is one of those. As a complete mistrust correctly recognized, china is a strategic in global competitor of the United States. It would be the greatest Foreign Policy challenge the United States faces in decades to come. Policies of the Chinese Communist party undermine u. S. Interests and values, as we share with partners around the world. Covid19 has brought this challenge the fork front of american life. We now know just how much the Chinese Communist partys decisions and actions directly affect u. S. Citizens, our allies and partners in t
Have deputy secretary of state Steven Biegun here to testify. Originally planned to hold this hearing back in march but the need to focus on covid19 prevented us from doing that even as we continue to address the pandemic and the impact on the u. S. Citizens. It is important this can many continue it to work on the most pressing Foreign Policy challenges and obviously chinas one of those. This is especially the case and the topic we are discussing today is a Trump Administration is correctly recognized china as a strategic and global pedant competitor of the United States it will be the greatest foreignpolicy challenge in the decades to come. The policies of the Chinese Communist partys undermined u. S. Interests and values including those we share with allies and partners around the world. Covid19 has brought this challenge to the fore front of american lyford we now know just how much the Chinese Communist partys decisions and actions directly affect u. S. Citizens, our allies and pa
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Will tell margaret or you have to go to your people and you have to tell them that it is in their interest that we will still have an internal market in one or 2 years time that the whole european edifice it wont be come crashing down through a huge economic crisis because then it will pull the netherlands down with it and its this short term thinking in some countries where the Prime Ministers are seem to be afraid to sort of go out with this message and say folks we cant just look at the moment we have to look to the new year next year the year after that and into the next 5 years and if we want to maintain our own wealth we have to sort of give something at the moment and so far that message doesnt really have to see being well received we heard from one dutch diplomat earlier in the day that they said positions are far apart and they no consensus can is to be had on the spaces so she will really have to move hearts and minds at this is really being seen as a turning point for the E