Sheer, whos our assistant secretary of defense for east asia in the pacific. You know that david was had come back from hanoi to do this job. He was our u. S. Ambassador there. David is an expert on china and Southeast Asia. I think for many of us who are sort of in the trenches every day on these issues, couldnt think of a better person for the pentagon to put into this role. Next to him is one of the top Southeast Asiaenists in the United States, and he also is singapores ambassador to the United States. Aspoke. He was most recently singapores ambassador to indonesia. He was in the past has been singapores ambassador also to australia. And to quaul la lumpur and has a long history in Singapore Foreign affairs working on asiarelated affairs. And finally, a good friend and a real hero of Southeast Asia and asian policy in the senate is chris bros. He works with senator mccain in senator mccains office. Previous before that he was senior staffer in the Senate Armed Services committee. A
The cdc is doing its traditional tracking and working with Health Departments across the country to understand when there are cases and make sure the appropriate whether it is that virus or not. We are doing the tracking in terms of the numbers and the numbers by state and locality so we have an understanding of that. The other thing the cdc is doing is communicating clearly about the things we believe are most important and i would encourage everyone in this room to step up your handwashing and if you have children to make sure you are encouraging that kind of handwashing. Thats one of the basic things and something that before meals and before everything making sure we are doing that. The last point gets to the core of your question is cdc is working with individual Health Departments to do the investigatory work to understand in these cases whether its a question of paralysis or a question of visit directly related to the virus. We are part of that investigative process to determine
To put its best foot forward. A strange question because it doesnt work with the framework that you follow. You are from el paso so maybe you could. I think the reason is chief of police and the community that supports law and order and law enforcement, they do a great job and the crime is different. Its entirely different. Bridge cases is a major problem. We have time for one last question. I had the opportunity to talk about that at the end of july and work with refugees. I think they have been pretty poorly portrayed by the media. There are a lot of desperate people trying to flee bad circumstances but my question really is, because we have such a polarized nation, what are the representatives of the state of texas doing to let Homeland Security and every other representative and senator from every other state in the union understand that we will never be able to build a wall along the entire edge of texas that will keep people in our out because if you want to know how it felt to m
Rebuild, its always your prerogative to destroy. But i do think we ought to be paying attention to how that issue gets resolve ised because resolved because people will be brokering for power positions in the process of rebuilding, and its a new way to establish dominance. And perhaps through the ngoization of the area to undermine popular struggles for political selfdetermination. In the corner over here. And then well come back. Thank you very much for being here. I wanted to explore a little bit your discussion of working in solidarity with palestinians and, in fact, other oppressed peoples. From where you stand. As a, um, half jewish women with a palestinianamerican daughter who lived in palestine for several years but now living here in the United States, how does one do that with integrity . Because, you know, as someone whos an activist, as a writer, im also aware of this concept and have, in fact, been told, well, you must work in your community. What does that mean to you . Ho
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