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
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
Yee, present. Kim, present. Madame president you have a quorum president breed please join us in the pledge of allegiance. [pleage of allegiance] president breed thank you. Mdm. Clerk, either any communications . Clerk i have none to report today president breed any changes to the separate 23rd or march 1, 2016 regular Board Meeting minutes . Seeing none, is their motion to approve those minutes . Moved and seconded. Going take this without objection . Without objection those Meeting Minutes will be approved after Public Comments. The gavel president breed mdm. Clerk please read the Consent Agenda clerk items on consent are considered routine if a member of jets and item may be removed and considered separately breed president breed cnote items on the roster please call the roll clerk on items one and 2 campos aye, [adjournment] aye, farrell, aye, kim aye, mar absent, peskin aye, tang aye, wiener aye, yee aye, avalos aye, breed aye there are 10 aye president breed those items are appro
We know a big part of our Public Safety efforts are for not, thats one tool we have is to make sure we have these protections in place. Were also experiencing a crisis in Law Enforcement in San Francisco just like other places around the country and it makes sense that we strengthen our laws to build this trust and thats what this update here is about. Since we pass ted 2013 legislation due process for all, the federal fwo ft came up with Priority Enforcement Program which doesnt deal with detention letters, now they send a letter saying we should notify them when one of our persons at ice believes is undocumented. If they know whether they called the police or became a witness or a victim of a crime, that could result in a deportation, possibly their own deportation, that would put a series Chilling Effect on them wanting to pim up the phone and help police resolve crime. We need to make sure that people have that faith in our local Law Enforcement, any action they take will not lead