Good afternoon i hope everybody had a good thanksgiving break. Welcome back to washington, welcome to brookings im bruce jones the director of the policy program at brookings and its my pleasure to welcome you to our event for east Asian Pacific affairs. David stillwell is appointed as assistant secretary of state by President Trump of the 20th of june he served in the air force for 35 years beginning as a Korean League west in 1980 and retiring in 2015 as a Brigadier General he was the asia adviser to the chairman of the joint death of staff from 21 to 2013 you also recently served as the director of the u. S. Focus group. He was also an adjunct fellow thank you to your service to this country. As you can see from his background the david has been at the forefront of managing the policy questions the shape the u. S. And china friendship. Working tirelessly behind the scenes to build policy with china is also then keeping our wider focus on the region as a whole. Where we have a huge n
Betterthanexpected chinese data, giving a lift to the market. It may have gotten a little bit better. Opec up 1. 7 . Of november manufacturing also ,oming out, that tmi figure indicating a contraction because its below 50 but better than the 46. 6 that was our preliminary preview. Coming up its merger monday, all things deals with the cohead of global m a a jp morgan. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Signaling they will consider deeper cuts ahead of the latest opec plus summit. This is despite the rest of the coalition showing reluctance to refuse output reduce output even further. The meeting in vienna starts in december the fifth. The Junior Coalition partner in the German Government electing a new leadership, throwing the government into crisis. Social democrats are bringing in a team that vocally opposes the alliance with chancellor Angela Merkel. The new leadership signaling it wont bring an abrupt end to the coalition and its more likely to put forward a set of
Good afternoon i hope everybody had a good thanksgiving break. Welcome back to washington, welcome to brookings im bruce jones the director of the policy program at brookings and its my pleasure to welcome you to our event for east Asian Pacific affairs. David stillwell is appointed as assistant secretary of state by President Trump of the 20th of june he served in the air force for 35 years beginning as a Korean League west in 1980 and retiring in 2015 as a Brigadier General he was the asia adviser to the chairman of the joint death of staff from 21 to 2013 you also recently served as the director of the u. S. Focus group. He was also an adjunct fellow thank you to your service to this country. As you can see from his background the david has been at the forefront of managing the policy questions the shape the u. S. And china friendship. Working tirelessly behind the scenes to build policy with china is also then keeping our wider focus on the region as a whole. Where we have a huge n
Brookings. David was appointed assistant secretary of state by donald trump. He previously served in the air force for 35 years, beginning as a linguist in 1980, retiring as a brigadier general. He was the advisor to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and served as the defensive attache in beijing. He recently served as the director of the China Strategic Focus Group in hawaii from 2017 to 2019, where he was an abjects adjunct senior fellow. David, thank you for your service to our country and the important work you are doing now. As you can see from his background, he has been at the forefront of managing policy questions that shape the future of these relationships and has been working tirelessly behind the scenes to build policy to china and is preoccupied with keeping our wider focus on the region as a whole, where we have a huge number of relationships, partners, allies, and interests that go beyond simply the question of china. Assistant secretary stillwell and i were here
Different this time and what can we do to ensure that the coming era of change leads to not just productivity growth, but some degree of shared prosperity. And our focus is on the labor market on how we make the labor market function while for as many workers as possible, but that is where we see this as the opportunity and also the challenge. The lesson if you read the report from just last week one of the things we say is coming and im kind of critical on this with a well functioning labor market is the foundation for tha healthy middle class and the political system and without the foundation of opportunity and prosperity it is difficult for other things to work well. So our focus is on making the work work and that is why it is such an honor to have mary here today from the Indiana University research talking about her book and here is a photograph and here is the actual person. Just to give you a tiny bit of background, the earlier work has been on the sort of communication and us