Unilateral war, which is the impression most people get from this current administration. Thank you. No question i guess. So well just move right on here. Maam. Yeah. Hi. Marisol morales. Followup question to the gridlock and the word compromise being a fourletter word in washington, d. C. How do you feel about term limits for congress . Ive always been an advocate for term limits. Its just my personal believes. Just as im for non partisan redistricting. I think people spend too long in politics. And i dont know what the number is. Let it be ten years or whatever it might be. I just think listen, if you look at my career, ive done 30 Different Things in my whole career. I just think its important always to try and recruit, get new blood, fresh blood involved, someone to come in with new ideas, and you can say doing something too long, you just dont have that same vigor that you had when you started. So ive always been an advocate for term limits. People need to move on do something els
Modi that well resume negotiations on a High Standard bilateral investment treaty. And we seem to be miles apart from india. Even on basic definitions of investment. There is not much time left if you want to talk about it, but id like a detailed answer in writing. Im happy to get back to you in more detail. But in the minute i have lets me take a quick shot. Ive been deeply involved with the discussions with china through strategic and economic dialogues. It is a very important conversation because if it concludes successfully china will raise itself to standards that will help in a lot of ways in normalizing and improving trade balances. It empowers their reformers. It empowers their reformers to make the changes internally and stops them from doing things in International Markets that cause unfair advantage. I understand the rationale. What id like is a detailed summary where we are with this. And they are just taking the very first step very shortly putting out their first cut at w
Pure navy bill, it will devastate some part of the navy either our shipbuilding or readiness or something, because the high cost of these and because we dont recapitalize them very often. If you look back in history there is precedent for either making this a National Program because it is the most survivable leg of our deterrence or building another ship to accommodate it. The freedom in the early 60s to late 60s and the maritime maybe in 72 it was increased pretty dramatically to build these submarines. To show you in 76 to 80, the navy ship fund doubled. Our fleet still climbed by 40 because it simply wasnt enough to do both. Admiral green . Senator, first of all i think its a great start. I think we need to pursue clarity of the intent of the congress. What i mean by that is the legal ramifications for sources of the fundings we could put in there. Is it just other Navy Shipbuilding accounts . Is it just other navy appropriations, or do we mean the whole department of defense could
Weeks, the congress actively moving forward with its proposed sanctions bill could have an unpredictable effect on leadership opinion public opinion, in tehran. Just to set the scene then ill ask simon gas who is leading our delegation in the direct talks with the iranians to say something, but just to set the scene, there has been some movement over the last few weeks. We have seen some movement. There is reason for cautious optimism, signals coming out of tehran there is a desire to try to find a deal. But there is still difficult issues in which there is no movement at all. And you have to make heroic assumptions to get to the point where it is all agreed in the next two or three weeks. But i think compared to where we were when we left vienna in november, i think actually we have made quite significant progress over the last few weeks. But still very challenging. Well, firstly on the intervention, i think it cuts in both directions. You may have seen a spirited reply to the letter
Is a good idea is that they are very protective of the economy. They close too much the economy and they are more than 200 Million People, and they close the market and you need to produce things there or you pay 35 taxes. I think that should be a little easy, but it has been done by one government to be very protectionist for the industrial and the production nationally. Saud, if we come to you, your view of the challenge that carlos has laid out for us, the debate over the direction that essentially a civilization should take is fairly pronounced in some parts of the world that you operate in. I mean, how is it affecting the way that you and your company make investment decisions, think about customers and look at opportunities . Well, for us, i think we look at markets, the first thing we look at is the demographic in terms of the younger population and how quickly the population is growing. I think urban rule is very important for us and we look at those sorts of numbers and the ba