Yesterday in the topics they cover. Help me not focus on it. On the militia side there are proiranian militia sides. I cant say the division of iraqis and mobilization. I agree with you. Definitely under the popular mobilization, some of the militia and we are talking about dismantling the criminal ones, committing crimes. They can be accepted as part of the National Guard but my suggestion is on a personal level with dozens of people who belong to one of the regions to be integrated and find in army or National Guard. So we can get benefit of some of the shia who were fighting definite way. This brings me back to the story. If our share of the government has not been in iraq. This is only one. We are talking about 1200 something generals in iraq. We have over 1000. That is. 001 you can see the problem. Yes iraq is complicated and you will see it is democratic. Is it really a solution . Yes, there is a solution. There is an option. But there is much work to be done. Thank you very much
Information. Well, this is indeed very important part of the negotiations because that da flows across the atlantic every second, and we continue to do so. So its important we facilitate trading data and data flows in companies. This is the future in many ways and we will be discussing this in the ttip negotiations as well. When it becomes difficult is when we talk about personal data and how it is used, and thats we have so far that the Data Protection regime of europe is nose going to be negotiated with ttip. Were operating our rules. We also have the safe harbor, as i understand this is about to be very soon and i welcome that. And we are also negotiating that my colleague who is responsible for justice and the issue of an umbrella agreement between the u. S. And eu. Why that is not part of ttip it would be very beneficial to set the standard and the umbrella conditions there. So we will find a way to facilitate and is treated in accordance with u. S. The president has been very act
Services generated as a result. We support 400,000 jobs directly across the country in all 50 states on basis of the grants given out. Those are high quality jobs. You asked about global competitiveness. We were the up question leader of the world in the research until recently. Thats not longer to be taken for granted. When you see our losing ground, and we see countries like china, india india, singapore, and south korea upping their investments sometimes in double digits, we are losing that. Quick question on that. When they make increases in investments, do they have an eye on us as a target to beat us . You bet they do. Or doing it in a regime way . Its a little of both. They read our playbook from 20 years ago, and they saw what it did for americas economy and for the spinning off of Small Businesses that come out of this effort, and they want to do what we did, and so i dont know if youd say they are gunning for us, but they are basically trying to learn from our experience and
Back on track on its funding . Well, first, let me say we were thrilled, also to see whats in the 211st century cure, its the 2 billion a year of mandatory, gave a great jolt of excitement and some relief to a community thats. Really quite stressed over the last 12 years as we lost ground but to get back on a stable trajectory that would result in a healthy Biomedical Research ecosystem, which our country depended on with Great Success over 50 years, i estimate in my professional judgment, we need to be in the space of inflation plus 4 or 5 a year. Thats pretty much that dotted line plus inflation plus 3. 7 i guess, a healthy way to make sure all the talent and capabilities of this country in terms of Biomedical Research, where we led the world for decades, would be sustained, encouraged, and innovation going forth in the ways we want it to. Thank you, dr. Collins. it 2 billion a year for five years is better than nothing, but not pretend that a small temporary investment billions of d
The 17th and 1th century chinas economy was perhaps the largest in the world. So in a way, for them theyre going back to what they may have considered a normal situation 200 or 300 years ago, whereas i think we sometimes still have a certain amount of difficulty, both intellectually and motionally adjusting to the fact that china is almost a peer of ours. Its going to be a long time if ever before china can match our economy or many others in terms of per capita income. The other rising power i say rising, but, of course, it was an important power before, but i cite russia. Because with the collapse of the soviet union that we talked about earlier russia went through a period in the 1990s where it was it felt very weaken weakened. It felt like we treated, not only us, but the west in general treated russia as a defeated power. They very often use that terminology when talking to us. And there was a point in the 1990s when the russian economy, its gdp added up to something along the lev