Good morning i am jane harmon. President and ceo of the Wilson Center. Happy to be speaking to a packed crowd and to welcome secretary Rex Tillerson back to the Wilson Center. As you know mr. Secretary, the Wilson Center has a tradition of honoring business and political leaders who follow our 20th president s victim, that would be woodrow wilson. To quote enable the world, live with greater vision, a finer spirit of hope and achievement. The Center Honors you in 2010. And you wanted us by attending our event in dallas in 2014 where richard fisher, outgoing chairman of the received our Public Service award. You and i said together. We are delighted to welcome you back this morning to talk about the future of us relations with europe and to take some questions from me and some of you in the audience. Since we only have 50 minutes of your time, those here today submitted questions on arrival and we elected a few at random which i will put to secretary. Your predecessors and most recently
Newspapers and see iing this wi respect to the u. S. Firms, the mortgage problems, libor, forex issues. You cant just been telling yourself a few bad apples. Theres something about the structure of incentives and expectations within firms that needs to be addressed and i think a lot of boards and management know it needs to be b addressed, but this is almost surely the classic case of needing to take some changes that in some instances, are not going to manifest themselves immediately. Thank you so much for coming on a rainy saturday morning. Thanks, tim. And president obamas in china today and announce tad u. S. And china would begin granting visas to each others citizens that would be value itd for up to ten years. P president arrived in beijing today and is also pursuing a trade pact. This is part of a week long foreign trip for the trip. Hell meet wednesday with the chinese president. On thursday and friday, hell been b in myanmar and the trip will wrap up in australia for the g20
A deception. They put out the missile that was expected and put out another on top of it. Why is that so significant . Its because this is now the configuration that gives the North Koreans the eventual capability for that Intercontinental Ballistic Missile that could hit the u. S. , are they there yet . No, this is just demonstrating that capability. They will have to make a lot of improvements to actually make it hit an intercontinental target, specifically the west coast of alaska. But what the u. S. Is seeing, is north korea living up to the threat. They said they were going to test, they said they were going to develop, and thats exactly what theyre doing. Now putting President Trump in the position as he heads towards the g20 summit meeting with the russian president , with other world leaders, having to come up with a plan about what to do. We saw the u. S. Yesterday fire back a drill, a test of its own missiles that could strike targets in north korea. Nobodys looking for a mil
The unique insights, experiences and expertise of Arctic peoples, as well as the challenges they face in the modern world, were highlighted at a special 'Indigenous Leadership' event co-hosted by the Fondation Prince Albert II de Monaco at the Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavík.