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
Again, good morning and welcome to the fifth annual United Statesjapankorea trilateral symposium organized by International Student conferences and generously sponsored by Sasakawa Peace foundation usa and the Korea Foundation. We thank you all for joining us on this cold and blustery day as impacted hopefully other parts of the east coast more than us but we know it wasnt the easiest commute this morning. For those of you that i follow us and paying attention today on social media we like to point out that we have greater a hashtag for todays conference and that is hashtag isctrilat. For those of you not following on instream and twitter that at so my name is Alexander Evans and i will be your master of ceremonies for todays event and i currently work as the research and Program Coordinator at the center for east Asian Studies within Johns Hopkins. The preps perhaps more portly r todays event i am a lump of the 63rd japan america student conference back in 2011. I think in a lot of wa
bonnie: diplomats in the foreign service are the face of america around the world. they re charged with promoting peace and prosperity, advancing the interests of the united states and protecting. americans abroad. in the past two decades three women and two african-americans have served as secretary of state, the top u.s. diplomat. butts diplomacy has not always been diverse about. lia miller: the chemistry and the makeup of the diplomatic corps did not represent the american people. it was predominantly male. it was predominantly white. it was predominantly middle and upper class. bonnie: to recast that image, the department has created programs and launched initiatives designed to ensure u.s. embassies and consulates around the world look like america today, diverse and multi-cultural. the goal is ambitious and the results so far are mixed. linda thomas greenfield: we ve had to make some changes in the process so that we can target minority and women. i think we ve
diversity is our strength. bonnie: diplomats in the foreign service are the face of america around the world. they re charged with promoting peace and prosperity, advancing the interests of the united states and protecting. americans abroad. in the past two decades three women and two african-americans have served as secretary of state, the top u.s. diplomat. butts diplomacy has not always been diverse about. lia miller: the chemistry and the makeup of the diplomatic corps did not represent the american people. it was predominantly male. it was predominantly white. it was predominantly middle and upper class. bonnie: to recast that image the department has created programs and launched initiatives designed to ensure u.s. embassies and consulates around the world look like america today, diverse and multi-cultural. the goal is ambitious and the results so far are mixed. linda thomas greenfield: we ve had to make some changes in the process so that we can target minorit
4:00 in the afternoon out west. i m monica cabrera in new york. right now two countries, both in crisis at the highest level. one is the united states. launched into a state of national emergency by president trump, who insists that drugs and deadly crime are pouring in from mexico. and that only a wall can stop them. democrats in congress call this crisis fake. they are pushing back. another national emergency in our hemisphere a little more obvious. venezuela. crippling poverty, and political unrest there created a full-blown humanitarian catastrophe. and this weekend u.s. air force cargo planes are again delivering food, medicine and relief supplies to areas just outside venezuela s border. joining me now, in a u.s. network exclusive, senator marco rubio of florida. he is in colombia, where u.s. humanitarian aid just arrived yesterday. senator, tell us, what are you doing there on the venezuela border today, and why was it important for you to be there? well, i mean,