Teleconference. The white house woking on new guidelines with those governors to put restart plans into operation. The cdc and fema reportedly coming up with recommendations. Advising states to come out of mitigation in a controlled way with robust Monitoring Systems in place to contain new cases and outbreaks. Adding leaders at all levels will need to prepare communities for occasionally returning to mitigation measures for a brief period to continue containing the disease. President trump is suggesting some states that are the least hard hit may be able to reopen by the end of the month and some perhaps sooner. President trump it will be very, very close maybe even before the date of may 1. So that will be for some states. Actually there are over 20 that are in extremely good shape. And we think well be able to get them open fairly quickly. Others will follow. The federal government will be watching them closely. And well be there to help. Lou the deadly wuhan virus that shut down mu
Thank you very much for coming. This report, strategy in indopacific. Thanks to the contributors, it has happened. I appreciate your support in the participation today. We with like to thank japan foundation, center for Global Partnership for their support of this. The opinions in the report belong to the authors. Today after i introduce the report and contributors will talk. Now introduction. This is picture i took. The rise of china and its attitude force the United States to address challenge. Vicepresident mike pence spoke at Hudson Institute, very important, and said government approach using political, economic and military tools as well as propaganda to advance its influence and benefit its interest in the United States. Given the United States need to win the competition, cooperation with likeminded countries is key because historically number of Political Partners has been a factor in the geopolitical struggle. For example, in world war i, the winning side comprised 32 countri
Admiral blair serves as a member of the Energy Security leadership council, the National Bureau of Asian Research, u. S. China relations in the atlantic council. Previously served as director of National Intelligence from january 2009 to may 2010 and prior to retiring from the navy he was after 34 years commander of u. S. Pacific command, admiral blair will provide testimony on the drivers of chinas development of expeditionary capabilities. After admiral blair we will hear from kristin, chief executive officer of Vantage Point asia llc, a consultancy that provides expertise on the Indo Pacific Region with a focus on Chinese Foreign policy and Security Issues. She also holds a position of abject senior policy analyst at asd, formally she served director of the navy asiapacific Advisory Group at the pentagon. And was a senior project director for Chinese Military writtenrity, she has extensively on Chinese Foreign policy security and military affairs. She will address how bri furthers t
[inaudible conversations] good morning, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the second hearing of the u. S. China economic and security review commissions 2020 annual report cycle and thank you for joining us, especially to our witnesses for the time and effort that they have put in to the testimonies. Youre going to be treated to some really, really good things here today. Wed also like to thank the House Foreign Affairs committee for securing this room for our use today. Todays hearing examines chinas ability to project military power and influence beyond its shores. And the implications of these growing capabilities for u. S. Interests. In january, 2016, after communist Party General secretary and Central Military Commission Chairman xi jinping reorganized the Peoples Liberation army, this commission explored the push toward making the pla a force more capable of conducting Global Operations and i think commissi commissioner was the cochair for that, too. And four years later were exam
Contracted report for the commission on chinas expeditionary capabilities. Were really looking forward to that. At james, he specializes in emerging technologies, threat assessment, forecasting and data science. Much of his work analyzes chinas Armed Forces Modernization and u. S. Longrange strategic planning. Before joining james he was an extra Research Assistant for Yale University department of medical science where he did research on chinas naval modernization. Mr. Peltier has a master of arts in International Science from university of chicago. Good political real school. We will next year from kevin mccauley. Hes an independent analyst and was formally the scene Intelligence Officer for the soviet union, russia, china and taiwan during his 31 years in the u. S. Government. Hes senior china analyst for the armys National Ground Intelligence Center and he served on Advisory Board and working groups supporting the intelligence community, the National Intelligence council and the u.