Century. Them for giving us the space this morning. I want to thank all of you for being here. In particular, center dan sullivan from alaska who i will introduce in just a minute. Let me tell you about our program. , we have years old this radical notion that even in washington, there can be an organization as resolutely nonpartisan. We have been resolutely nonpartisan for 35 years. We meets are annually and aspen, colorado to discuss big ideas about american foreignpolicy and Global Leadership. Each year, we prepare a book based on our proceedings for publication. This book is available today, the book we are discussing today. Its called the world turning upside down america maintaining leadership in a dangerous age. We will discuss the book is morning and continuing with our friends, we will talk about major changes in how america looks at global trade position with Richard Danzig about the impact of technology on Global Leadership. We will continue with a conversation between forme
Cable television companies. And is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Former secretary of state Madeleine Albright and former National Security advisor, susan rice joined the discussion on changes to us Foreign Policy under the Trump Administration. And American Leadership in world affairs. Hosted by the Aspen Institute in washington dc, this is three hours. Good morning everyone. Good morning. Thank you for your patience. I am the director of the Aspen Strategy Group. And welcome to this session on American Global leadership in the 21st century. First i want to thank piper for giving us their space this morning. We much appreciate that. I would like to thank all of you for being here. Members of the Strategy Group. Particularly senator dan sullivan of alaska with whom i will introduce any minute. Let me tell you about the program this morning. We at the Aspen Strategy Group are 35 years old. We have this radical notion that even in washington there can be an org
A warm welcome to Worldwide Exchange on cnbc. Im wilfred frost. Lets get to the market picture. The nasdaq up yesterday a percent, the s p just less than that the dow up a half percent. We had nine out of 11 sectors higher led by telco and energy this morning were expected to open higher, about 79, 80 points for the dow. The s p up 6 points. The nasdaq up 32 points. Tenyear treasury note yields rose again yesterday. Up to about yesterday we got up to 2. 66 today 2. 62 the trend of late has been a rising and steepening yield curve. Asian trade for you, strong across the board we did have a bank of japan meeting which, as expected, kept things in line as they were. The statement also very, very similar to last month. The nikkei rallied 1. 3 . The yen not doing too much off the back of the season a strong session across all of asia we talk about the rally thats continued at the start of this year the likes of hong kong up sharply. Already strong outperformers last year. Hong kong up 3. 2
For a long period of time focused on arabic and palestinian, visavis, the israeli. Now, at least you have got three, the palestinian, israel confrontation still there. We have the gulf region and the east coast and the west coast. They are opposing each other. The third one is about the traps significance. Started from tunisia, now to many countries. So the missions are changing. And the United States meeps areans are changing. Secondly the mekchanisms, the ways of dealing with the complex situation are changing as well. For instance, the United States used to rely very much on the socalled quartet which excluded china from that. Now, with this Iranian Nuclear issue, we Work Together for p5 plus 1. This also shows china wants to play a role. Although the United States still is the first fiddle and china is the third one. The second one is the europeans but we are learning. We are still in internship to have a digression. You have your American University in beirut for more than 100 yea
Together for p5 1. And this also shows china wants to play a role though the United States is still the first fiddle. And china is the third one. The second one is the europeans. But we are learning. We are still in internship. To have a digression you have your American University in beirut for more than 100 years. And you have American University in cairo. We even dont have many confucius institutes there. So you can help us for that. The third one is there are emerging, new overlapping interests in cooperation. Like our cooperation against piracy piracy. Navigation safety security. And our cooperation on the chemical weapon issue of syria. Et cetera. So i still believe the United States is the most important factor. But you will change your ways of thinking and practicing. Thank you. You mentioned quartet versus p5 1. Brian spoke insightfully on the fact that the p5 1, if a deal is done, the first question becomes can it hold together in enforcing and supporting a deal . Then anothe