Bilateral deal is operational the partners will begin to phase out trade. Its the e. U. s 1st trade agreement with a member of the association of Southeast Asian nations or group of countries in the in the region that have teamed up to promote Economic Growth the deal aims to eliminate most arrows within the next 5 years sections of some fisheries and Farm Products bilateral trade in goods alone between the us singapore amounts to 53000000000. 00 euros a year its hoped the agreement will result in a rise of up to 10 percent in trade the e. U. Is already singapores most important export destination for Services Singapore is one of the e. U. s latest largest trading partners in South East Asia now lets take a closer look at the matter with kevin haydn of irish hes with the association of german jumbos of industry and commerce and joins us in the studio now kevin this is the 1st race of the u. S. Planes with member why Singapore Singapore is a very small country if you look at the size of
The United States. A federal state utility collaboration. This is a little bit of a different topic for usc a, but one that we are very eager to have a conversation about and im hoping that this will be the first of a continuing conversation because the matters that were going to address this afternoon are taking out of the degree of urgency. Always been urgent what i think myself that urgency is growing so thank you for coming we have an excellent panel here today. For our discussion. We hope to have audience participation as well. Monitoring in todays session is our luck. Mark will provide the discussion and moderate the discussion in the need for Energy Assistance. He is an economist, and is an expert on local and Regional Energy and housingfinancing. He is consulted regularly for federal, state foundation and nonprofit agencies. Hes experience at testifying before congress and he is the executive director of the National Energy assistance Directors Association and the Energy Progra
Today we are discussing the japansouth korea trade dispute. Its obviously a a very sensit, a very difficult issue between two countries that are critically important to the United States as allies, as Economic Partners, as fellow democracies, and as friends. You will notice the title of event includes ramifications and the path forward. I emphasize forward because the current dispute is due in part to events that have taken place months or years or decades or centuries ago. But rather than dwelling on those issues, we want to identify away from for both cos and in the three countries including the United States to move forward. Now, the current dispute is part of a a cyclical pattern that ss to research every few years, and each time it felt to those officials and experts working that each time was the worst. But i think all of us now have seen that this time is very different. In the past the economic and the security realms seemed exempt and, indeed, they were moderating or mitigatin
In the past u. S. Experts and officials have always had really private sometimes stern messages for both sides to take auction to move forward and we will see how are panelists come down on that issue today. And we really have a group of stiller panelists and i will introduce them later but first we have for what many of you will be a surprise guest, we only heard formal confirmation late yesterday that mike will begin the opening remarks, mr. Napper, his appearance may not be on the website yet and people may not have been aware of it, but mr. Knapper, member of senior Foreign Department of state and hes serving as the Deputy Assistant secretary for korea and japan and i first met mark when he was the head of the political military unit in the embassy in tokyo, well, probably more years than either one of us would want to admit and since then hes had any number of jobs, any number of business cards i think i have in my collection, its not to say he cant keep a job, expertise on so man
We hear. So i consider this to be child abuse and the sexual mutilation of children on a on an industrial scale so it makes me feel terrible i cant believe that a mother would do this to her son. Live from moscow. Thanks for joining us on the program. A President Trump work with the British Ambassador to the United States. Could now become the 1st to be expelled from in over a century in which he described trump. Dysfunctional. As the story. Washington will be cutting its ties with British Ambassador kim derek now this comes on the heels of a damning assessment of the trumpet ministration in leaked diplomatic cables which have just recently been made public heres what donald trump had to say in response to these leaks regarding critical statements about the white house. I do not know the embassador but hes not like or will photo within the us will no longer deal with him the good news for the wonderful United Kingdom is that they will soon have a new Prime Minister now these diplomatic