A Nonprofit Foundation in washington that deals and specializes in eurasia with terrorism and deal a lot with china. And we appreciate the people, this program or discussion today is going to be broadcast on cspan. Were very excited about getting the visibility throughout the United States and the critical importance of this speech is that randall schrivers speech today, comments are on the record. He appeared last year at the Jamestown Foundation China Defense and security conference. His comments were off the record at the time. So this year we keep progressing in how were advancing with secretary schriver and were trying to get more attention to this issue. But let me first of all say that a couple words about randy. He is has long been known in the China Community as a robust choice on china, leading strategic thinker on china. In 2008 he cofounded the project 2049 with mark stokes. Hes been very active in this region for quite a long time and has a wide and distinguished career st
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Alliance with regional and Global Security challenges, this is from hosted by the International Strategic studies. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. Thank you very much for coming. Its friday afternoon in august and you know, im delighted that your Summer Vacation plans include csis, but its really a testament to how important, influential and respected our panel today is. Im the senior vicepresident for asia and japan here csis at georgetown. Before we get started we always do a brief safety announcement. And we have about ten fourstar admirals and generals in the room, but this former boy scout will be in charge. If there is a need to evacuate and ill let you know, but well head out and head around the corner to National Geographic down 17th street. Out the back. We have simultaneous interpretation and there should be headsets on your chair. If you have a problem, wave and someone will help you. Please leave them on the chair, if you take them home wed send the new
This is a annual event that the Japan Program hosts to invade thinkers who we often dont get to listen to here in washington. This year i am extremely honored to have these leaders. They have been my mentors. I respected them deeply. They have caught me so many things over the years that i have known them. Im very very happy they agreed to come to washington and talk to us this morning. You all have a bio in the program thats in your seats. I save you from a lengthy introduction. It is to demonstrate joint operations on selfDefense Forces and we will listen to what they have in mind about future defense posture. Before i start im a director of Japan Program here. This annual event could not have happened without a lot of the sponsors and supporters of the Japan Program. I would very much like to thank all of the Japan Program supporters at this occasion. You can see the list of supporters at the back of this pro su bro sure. Hopefully this will grow over the years. A couple of administ