90 minutes. [background noises] this hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. For thousands of years Pacific Islanders have been masters of the seat navigating oceans by canoe guided only by the stars. With Climate Change and globalization hitting their shores they have become innovators on how to save their heritage. There are over a million and a half americans and pacific pacificisland ancestry. Over 1000 citizens from freely associated state serving in the United States armed forces. This put people to people ties at the heart of our relationship to a part of the world that has been a vital and Strategic Interests of the United States. During world war ii u. S. Navy built an airstrip what is now the nation. But today it is the peoples republic of china that is planned to rebuild the former american airstrip. Beijing is signaling policing deals to provide cybersecurity and Community Policing assistance in the region. Since the islands change their recogn
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Daniel. This is about 40 minutes. Hello, everyone and thank you for joining us in person here today at the Atlantic Council and virtually around the world. For the conference titled china and the Global South Development and influence in the shifting global order to better understand and respond to the impact across the global south. My name is dave shulman senior director of the Atlantic Councils global china hub that has the mission of devising solutions to the global challenges posed by the rise leveraged in the Atlantic Councils work on china across the 16 programs and centers. Its a true pleasure to kick off the conference on a topic that couldnt be more timely and which is controlled with two Big Questions around state of the International Order and its intensifying strategic competition as well as to the state of progress towards the goals across much of world as countries look to rebound from the pandemic and address massive infrastructure financing gaps and harness the benefit
Now to a discussion to boost relations with developing countries amid influence featuring assistant secretary of state for east asian and Pacific Affairs daniel. This is about 40 minutes. Hello, everyone and thank you for joining us in person here today at the Atlantic Council and virtually around the world. For the conference titled china and the Global South Development and influence in the shif global order to better understand and respond to the impact across the global south. My name is dave shulman senior director of the Atlantic Councils global china hub that has the mission of devising solutions to the global challenges posed by the rise leveraged in the atlantic across the 16 programs and centers. Its a true pleasure to kick off the conference on a topic that couldnt be more timely and which is controlled with two Big Questions around the state of the International Order and its intensifying strategic competition as well as to the state of progress towards the goals across muc
Efforts to boost relations with developing countries in the amid chinas rising influence featuring assistant secretary of state for east asia and pacific affairs. This is about 40ni minutes. Everyone thank you for joining us in person here today at the Olympic Council and virtually round the world. For our conference titled china in the Global South Development and influence in a shift in global order. Joint effort between the council and university of Notre Dame School of Global Affairs as part of our China Global South Initiative to better understand respond to chinas impact across the global south. Of the Atlantic Council global china. Co which has the mission of devising allied solutions to the global challenges posed by chinas rise, leveraging the work on china across our 16 programs. It is a true pleasure to kick off the student conference on the topic that cannot be more ortimely than to central both he Big Questions around the state of the International Order and its intensifyi