My name is matthew goodman, i old the science chair year at csis. Welcome to our online viewers, we always have a good turnout online as well. Welcome to the event, building bridges, question mark, in u. S. China relations. This is brought to us with a kind sponsorship of the Carnegie Corporation of new york which has been a supporter of the dialog that lies behind this event which ill explain in just a second and ill introduce our terrific panel in a second and invite them up. First let me make a couple of administrative announcements. As usual, please silence your phones and if theres any kind of emergency, which is unlikely, weve never had that problem, just follow me. That are emergencies hears and at National Geographic one street down on m street. And i think that is all i need to say administratively. Let me just say that the actual narrow reason for this event is that were going to be rolling out a series, a collection of essays that have been written by u. S. And chinese schol
Her folks on the project sponsor. That communication was not going anywhere. It did not result in the acceptance of the agreement. In the last two weeks i have been conversations not directly between myself or the project sponsor, but there have been conversations were once again the deal was put in front of them, we are ready to go. We will sign it this morning, and our understanding is no. Thank you. I still dont understand it, because i took what we said here as a direct invitation for those parties who were present in the room to talk to each other. I have a lineal way of thinking about that. That was the people i thought i was talking to and that didnt happen. So i dont know what to say. I dont have any comment anymore on that matter. Thank you. There is a motion on the table. I will say, my strong directive was to go back and work with the community. I expected there to be that communication, different from the last time. We heard this, the last few times we have heard this, i ha
Various channels, as of last night there was still not an agreement acceptance on the deal on the table that had been devoted to an agreed to previously. That is why we are here today say we have no deal. We are ready, we were ready last night, we were ready two weeks ago. That is the latest i have heard directly from them. Im sorry, to, you are saying that the deal that you presented today has been available since the last hearing . That is what you are saying . And that is something that you emailed to them, or how did that get communicated to united to save the mission . Weve got a lot of different folks operating the mission. Its a challenging environment. Challenging project sponsors. Challenging neighborhood groups. It is a very sensitive neighborhood. Up and until two weeks ago, there was lots of communication back and forth between larissa, her folks on the project sponsor. That communication was not going anywhere. It did not result in the acceptance of the agreement. In the l
In the last two weeks i have been conversations not directly between myself or the project sponsor, but there have been conversations were once again the deal was put in front of them, we are ready to go. We will sign it this morning, and our understanding is no. Thank you. I still dont understand it, because i took what we said here as a direct invitation for those parties who were present in the room to talk to each other. I have a lineal way of thinking about that. That was the people i thought i was talking to and that didnt happen. So i dont know what to say. I dont have any comment anymore on that matter. Thank you. There is a motion on the table. I will say, my strong directive was to go back and work with the community. I expected there to be that communication, different from the last time. We heard this, the last few times we have heard this, i have not received a lot of communication from Community Folks nor do i see lots of Community Folks here today. You know, obviously th
Im sorry, to, you are saying that the deal that you presented today has been available since the last hearing . That is what you are saying . And that is something that you emailed to them, or how did that get communicated to united to save the mission . Weve got a lot of different folks operating the mission. Its a challenging environment. Challenging project sponsors. Challenging neighborhood groups. It is a very sensitive neighborhood. Up and until two weeks ago, there was lots of communication back and forth between larissa, her folks on the project sponsor. That communication was not going anywhere. It did not result in the acceptance of the agreement. In the last two weeks i have been conversations not directly between myself or the project sponsor, but there have been conversations were once again the deal was put in front of them, we are ready to go. We will sign it this morning, and our understanding is no. Thank you. I still dont understand it, because i took what we said her