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
Contributors of this report will talk on u. S. Approach to Counter China based on this report. So now introductions. This is picture i took. The rise of china and its attitude towards the world, challenged by chinas ambition. Vice president mike pence spoke at Hudson Institute, and this is very important, and said beijing government approach using Political Economic and military tools as propaganda to advance its interest and benefit its interest in the United States. So given that the United States need to win the competition, cooperation will arise in likeminded countries is key because historically number of Political Partners has been a deciding factor in the geopolitical struggle. For example, the wild, wild west the winning side comprise but the losing side was composed of just four. During the u. S. Soviet cold war, 54 versus 26 eric so these facts indicate that the number of supporters correlate to the likelihood of winning the competition. Therefore, maintaining improving coll
Doesnt mean he wont go through with it over the next couple weeks. Taking a look at where the nikkei is, ending the year lower by 0. 5 . The nikkei recovered 50 of its slide since its record in 2009. Goldman among those expecting some kind of lift for japanese stocks in the coming year. Fromys japan will benefit a Global Economic recovery. Lets turn the page and look at where we are in terms of currencies. We know it has been a quiet volatility at a five year low. If history is any guide, the , it ishe currency to buy a favorable month and it has risen seven out of the last 10 years. The hong kong dollar, it may be six months of the protest, the hong kong dollar said to have its strongest month in 16 years. This is how it is looking at this point. David since 2000 three, that was the last time we saw a gain of this magnitude for the hong kong currency. We are looking ahead to the open in india, it was quite a steep gain we had friday although i should point out, depending on which inde
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