End and a Pacific Region and they also discuss china handling of coronavirus pandemic. This is just over two hours. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Welcome everyone, good morning. We will have senators participating both live and virtually. Since it is difficult to figure out when they showed up virtually, we will go on seniority. If that is agreeable with everyone, that is what we will do. Today, we welcome three witnesses to talk with us. Julie chung is here. We appreciate you all being here this morning. Will be talking about china presents us with many challenges. Opportunities as well but right now, challenges. There has been a lot of legislation introduced as far as china is concerned. There was a bill that we introduced earlier this year. That as early as today or yesterday, the minority introduced a bill of which senator schumer is the lead sponsor of the bill. In any event, this is not a partisan issue. This is an american issue. When i put the bill
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Influence in the middle east and u. S. Policy. S this was hosted by the center for National Interest. It is just over an hour and a half. We are going to discuss a new subject what does russia want . We dont have any russians here but there quite knowledgeable experts on russia. With the institutional and political perspective. In arabia caused even more confusion so what America Needs we would probably give one answer. With as the nations security advisor and with did a very different answer and then to change significantly and then another possibility president has discovered incriminating conduct regarding other american interests. This is a very important interesting topic. The director from Georgetown University also with his books from the state department as a scholar and a practitioner sojourn of both russian government in the position if you want that perspective you will get it spirit these are too tough questions. So i will spend bedtime talking about what does russia want .
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