[chanting]. [background sounds]. [background sounds]. [background sounds]. [background sounds]. [background sounds]. This meeting will come to order. Without objection, you will have five days to submit statements of material and questions to director subject in the rules. It will begin this missus secretary, thank you for meeting with us this morning. Weeks ago, we invited you to testify about american policy towards iran and iraq abusive force. Knowing that soleimani was in danger this terrorist is important that we look at Foreign Policy in terms of whether makes american safer advances our interests. Weeks later we seen attacks and more than a hundred servicemembers and thousands more personnel back to the region. In development of our relationship with the reckon the fight against isis. And run again, pushing towards a Nuclear Weapon and you promised the American People that they would be safer and iran, would be detoured. So my wrong metrics of this policy has been a failure. Mr.
This meeting will come to order. Without objection, you will have five days to submit statements of material and questions to director subject in the rules. It will begin this missus secretary, thank you for meeting with us this morning. Weeks ago, we invited you to testify about american policy towards iran and iraq abusive force. Knowing that soleimani was in danger this terrorist is important that we look at Foreign Policy in terms of whether makes american safer advances our interests. Weeks later we seen attacks and more than a hundred servicemembers and thousands more personnel back to the region. In development of our relationship with the reckon the fight against isis. And run again, pushing towards a Nuclear Weapon and you promised the American People that they would be safer and iran, would be detoured. So my wrong metrics of this policy has been a failure. Mr. Secretary shouldnt have been so difficult to get you here in your parents here today, is far too short and all we ha
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Its a great pleasure to see this crowd. You will all get cspan so be on your best behavior. We are here to launch a very important book on the future of the u. S. China relationship called the struggle for power u. S. China relations in the 21st century. I want to say word about that but first i want to recognize some very distinguished guests. I want to recognize the cochair of our Organization Former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice who was here with us. [applause] and youll be hearing from secretary rice in about half an hour. She will be one of our conversationalists. Our other cochair, harvard ever does professor, could not be here with his buddies very much part of this effort. I want to pay tribute to our former secretary of defense and a very good friend of mine, secretary bill cohen and mrs. Janet cohen. Welcome secretary. Janet, welcome. [applause] i want to pay tribute to one of i think one of the people who for me a bodies bipartisanship whos involved in every effort to
Will have to be under wto rules. The second big element are commitments from the chinese on a few structural changes. Intellectual property enforcement. They will do more of it, they say. That is something they are doing already. The third element is something on currency. The chinese have long been accused of being a currency manipulator. In this agreement, they agreed to be more transparent about how they manage their currency. How they manage their currency. We will see what happens. The fourth element imports from china do to go into effect on sunday is also agreed to lower the rate on about 110 billion in imports from china that took effect september 1. That will go down from 15 to 17 point from 17. 5 to 15 immediately. Those are this is the first time we have seen President Trump rollback any tariffs, and that is a big confidence building measure. The big problem with this agreement, and we are already seeing folks point to it, including chuck schumer, is this does not address so