Chain in the United States. She explains the importance of diversifying supply sources and working with a trading partners to prevent future shortages. This is just over one hour. A few notes about our upcoming programs. Next week we kick off the next phase of our series on workercentric and inclusive trade by going back to the basics and trying to answer the question, why do we trade and who should trade be designed to benefit . We have an allstar panel for that event on april 8. We have an additional event on april 13. U. S. Central american trade on april 14. The next event in our series on trade and the environment on april 20. Information on all those events can be found at www. Wita. Org. We are pleased to be joined by our cosponsor women in International Trade. Thank you for bringing this idea to wita and all you do for the trade community. Welcome to those watching on cspan and youtube. We would like to give a shout out to some of those in our audience today that you cannot see
Institute. This is the 40th anniversary of president reagans inaugural year and we are marking key moments from 1981 during our yearlong 40 at 40 celebration. Next week, we will mark president reagans first foreign trip on march 10, 1981. He traveled north of the border to meet with Prime Minister trudeau of canada. Last week, President Biden held his first bilateral meeting with Prime Minister trudeau. Which brings us to our conversation today. More broadly, americas role in the world, from Foreign Policy to National Defense. We have three distinguished leaders, highly regarded Public Servants to break down the National Security threat confronting a new administration. All three are fixtures at our Reagan National Defense Forum. Our plan is for the Reagan National Defense Forum to be back in the Reagan Library in simi valley, california by the end of the year. In recognition of his distinguished career as secretary of defense, cia director, and a distinguished career in congress. One
Restrictions despite the president s promise in his inaugural distress to always level with you. Blocking access to the news media is not leveling with the american people, mr. President. Politicians and some in the news media often frame this problem superficially by the reason for the influx of migrants, well, they are complicated. Some of the exodus from Central America is because of poverty and crime and natural disasters there and would have Happened Whomever was president. After all, there was a similar spike in 2019 under President Trump despite his draconian policies, and the numbers of arrests at the border began rising in 2020 after that appropriate to us decline due to the pandemic prompting border closures, but it is also true, experts say, that some of this crisis is because President Biden has reversed trumpera policies which had previously kept migrants out and stranded in mexico creating the bottleneck that the system is now dealing with. Bear in mind, that approach did
In myanmar been protesting for a 6th consecutive day as the army detained another key aide to disposed deposed civilian leader unsung suchi demanding the release of their elected leader and earlier the United States announced it was imposing sanctions on those responsible for the military takeover a military must relinquish power it seized and demonstrate respect for the world the people of burma as expressed in the november 8th election so the day im announcing a series of a series of actions there are taking to begin imposing consequences on the leaders of the coup the Us Government is taking steps to prevent the generals from improperly having access to the 1000000000. 00 from burmas Government Funds held in none of the states. And u. S. President joe bidens had his 1st conversation with the chinese leader xi jinping zits he took office biden raised concerns about what the white house called chinas unfair economic practices and he was president of course also spoke to she about the
President over an hour and a half into the attack and this is what he tweeted and he still even at this point did not acknowledge the attack on the capitol let alone condemn it instead he further incites the mob against his own Vice President whose life was being threatened some of these insurgents were heard saying quote that they hope to find Vice President mike pence and execute him by hanging him from a capitol hill tree as a traitor the other headlines tens of thousands of people in myanmar are protesting protesting for a 6th consecutive day against the military coup but the army is not backing down and has detained another close aide of the deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi who is under house arrest earlier the United States its imposing sanctions on those responsible for the military takeover. The families of 35 workmen thought to be trapped in a tunnel in the indian state of a pecan say they are losing hope a tunnel and much of the surrounding valley was flooded when par