[inaudible conversations] good morning and welcome to the Hudson Institute. I am tim weinstein, president and ceo and im delighted to welcome everyone here this morning. Today as they think everyone in this room knows kicks off a very critical week for the u. S. India relationship. As Prime Minister modi is here in washington for a first meeting with President Trump. Here at Hudson Institute, we are delighted to host a special event hosted on the future of the u. S. India commercial partnership and we are also grateful to our friends at cspan for covering this event live. U. S. India bilateral trade has an estimated 11,420,000,000,000, less than one fifth of the u. S. China 640 billion bilateral trade relationship. India is americas ninth largest supplier of foreign goods and 18th largest export market. The worlds first in the worlds six largest economies respectively, we are hesitant to believe there is significant room for growth. The u. S. India relationship is an important one here
Because the routine tasks will become automated. We dont need some of the programming that was done by hundreds of people, doesnt need to be done by as many people because some of the simple stuff can be automated so were moving up the food chain in terms of what do the people need. They need cutting edge skills in ai and in other areas that didnt etxist ten years ago. Thats where the investment needs to be made. If we make those investments, well be in better shape. Similar comments. High skilled workers are key to ge and are in large part a sector of the work force that we cant almost fully adequately address here from the u. S. Work force. I hate talking about automation and work force. Sometimes it sounds academic when were talking about peoples lives and coming up with the right solutions for the right transitions to new economies and inevitable change. It is inevitable. Ge has a strong focus on stem programs in Public Schools and around the United States and the bottom line is, w
Levinson. But, you know with nafta we engaged in the negotiations, opposed the ultimate agreement. We used the agreement when i was in place, and in particular we used the labor chapter, the labor Side Agreement very sig rousely dozens of times over the course of the last to or so years and it was a frustrating experience because i think Everybody Knows the critique of the nafta Side Agreement was that it wasnt enforceable, the provisions are weak and it does designed not to be used and never to come to actual dispute settlement. Its fulfilled that promise very well. But weve also criticized the nafta template. Thats what i would like to focus on today. We have one question in front of us, which is will nafta be renegotiated if at all, should bit renegotiated, how should it be renegotiated. But what does the nafta agreement immediate for our trade policy and what should be the principles that guide our tried policies going forward. I want to talk about nafta absolutely but i also want
In the trade well, war is too strong. Debate is too tame. The vigorous trade discussions weve had in washington over the last 20 years. Were certainly at an even in the scope of those discussions, we are at an unprecedented moment right now awaiting to see the unrolling of the administrations new trade strategy. We have been weve heard a lot from the president , when he was a candidate, when he was president elect. Since becoming president weve heard a lot about mexico, weve heard a lot about mexicans. Weve heard a lot about nafta. Weve heard a lot about china. Weve heard a lot about tpp. A lot of things are going to be ripped up. A lot of things are going to be done away with. A lot of things are going to be changed. And yet we have little in the way of actual specifics that have come out. The president s trade team, some of them have been named formally named. Wilber ross is i guess his nomination is somewhere on the floor of the senate. Theyll get to him at some point as theyve marc
The business, im concerned about boys as victims of a pernicious feminism. And that it had carried out into the rise in suicide statistics from white men of a certain social class. And i wondered how, its, how do we take this religious anthropology, the people are hungry for something and that they dont know what they are hungry for. Anytime we are eating each other alive and mothers of young sons, i look at them and they really dont know what they are supposed to do with these little boys in the future that these little boys are facing. Its a question that comes up in. Conferences in a bleak way. Where is that discussion . We have feminism but there seems to me that mean that a certain social class, im talking about middleclass and uppermiddleclass are sort of like forced into quietude. Where does that fit in . Kind of a crisis, a crisis for young boys as they mature into a cultural environment that doesnt provide them with any kind of pattern of life that make sense. Im not trying to