Relations, this runs just over an hour. We are delighted and honored to have this as the First Program of the school year to so to speak. The council prides itself on being nonpartisan. What better way to demonstrate nonpartisanship than having this fully Bipartisan Commission here working out of the council for a couple of days, and the chair man and Ranking Member of the commission here with us . Congressman Mike Gallagher from wisconsin and congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi from illinois, thank you for agreeing to do this program today. We would love to get your perspective on, first and foremost, chinas role in the global economy. China has traditionally driven about one third of global growth. We benefit from that, in terms of being able to export there. Trading Partners Benefit from it. Germany slows down because china slows down, europe slows down, japan slows down. It affects us back here. When you look at the china challenges the commission is working on, do you want china to sl
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
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
Notices. So point three is everybody better exercise what can happen but also what might happen thats really dark and awful. And that requires leadership, that requires time and training. And a lot of people are not doing it. And thats worrisome. After that, actually a few years ago, rand had a sabrini panel. I was a member of that too. There were only two of us who were laymen. There were army generals, steve abbott, fourstar navy admiral, was the chair, i was the vice chair. It was chemical, biological, nuclear and radiological event. That was what was exercised. And we concluded, to our horror, that nobody law enforcement, National Guard, the local First Responders had a clue what a nuclear event, dirty bomb, what did it look like in terms of injured people or a chemical or a biological event. Now, have things changed since then . Certainly at the state level. But guess what . No Congressional Committee had a hearing. Amazing. We went to see one senator who said, god, this is really
Table. The multi box that was fun to use are mindful that his faults and we begin in the ukrainian capital where day has taught since the countrys parliament voted to impeach the president to yanukovich i was the climax of what being a three month loan crisis of the country now has a new interim president alexandre touching off the job is to steer the country and to elections held in late may will his close ally of the former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko made a dramatic appearance in the halls of kiev on saturday after spending two in off years in prison. Was crossed out to kiev to check in with our National President said thomas hubbard. But douglas that is so much going on that difficult or where to begin the notice. This tends to sniffing the fact that the new bed era is dawning of any new credit. Dang much writing lets out without the disappearance of the day to get a copy of the now ex president the fall in the fall of the fall of yanukovich continued use out of a job yesterday