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Breakfast at st. Anthem chej in manchester, new hampshire, live over on cspan 2. You can watch online at cspan. Org or listen live on the free cspan radio app. Next, a discussion on the political situation in afghanistan, and the role that taliban and other power brokers like the u. S. , china, russia and pakistan may play in future peace arrangements. From the Brookings Institution earlier this week, this is just over an hour and a half. Welcome. Im mike owe han lon briefly playing the role of mc to say hello and welcome you before i hand it over to tom bowman. Tom is a very distinguished and accomplished npr reporter. Thrilled that he would join us. He spent time in the field in afghanistan, embedded with u. S. Combat units and other parts of the broader effort there that no of course is approaching the end of its second decade. Before i hand the baton to him ill introduce laura miller, who was the acting special represen ....
Limited in that. I have to give my presentation and not go through the question and answer period, which frankly i would have rather almost flipped that because i think the question period is sometimes more significant. But i do appreciate this opportunity to speak to the council on competitiveness. Im hopeful ill have a chance to continue this dialogue. I think this conversation and this issue is the issue of our time. So what im going to talk about today is u. S. china relations and maintaining United States competitive edge. I think today there is a widespread understanding that addressing a rise in china is the great Foreign Policy challenge of our time. So, again, this could not be a more important time or a more important conversation. I believe we can and must retain our leadership and Global Competitive advant ....