Dialogue can contribute and not fashion to peace and prosperity in a very important region of the world. And they can also stimulate and form and other faith public debate on the risks and opportunities that policymakers in washington, seoul and beijing are dealing with. To get us started, we have a distinguished american official who was very much involved in policymaking here in washington and also in the stewardship of u. S. Relations with the republic of korea, peoples republic of china and other important nations in that region. Danny russell, whom ive had the honor of knowing and working with for many years as assistant secretary of state for east asia and pacific affairs. He recently within the last couple of weeks returned from travels with president obama to china, burma and australia. He is going to provide us with an overview of u. S. Interests and policies in the region. So danny, welcome back to brookings and thanks for giving us the view from washington and the view from
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Viable in the philippines. Again, human behavior. Its taken them ten years to pass the Renewable Energy act. Its taken them another five years. Human behavior effects this. And i think theres a lot of opportunities where asia can do better. Biofuels, and i call this more efficient use of coal. When i was in charge of the clean energy program, i got hammered i used to get hammered all the time by grease peace, because it was called the asian dams and bridges bank and we finance a lot of coal, they say its changed. But they use to hammer us all the time and say, no, you cant use clean coal because youre whitewashing the problem. Theres no such thing as clean coal. Coal is dirty. And so we in the peace treaty we decided that whenever we talk about clean coal, supposed to call it more efficient use of coal. When i say more efficient use of coal, i mean ccs. And we have some funding from the ccs institute. And weve been working in india, china, vietnam and chio on the for ccs. And weve been
I think its completely crazy were doing substantive work on the 17th of december. I cant imagine were holding real conferences here right the week before christmas, but we are, but thats because theres so much to talk about, and im so glad to have you all come. Thank you, thank you all for being here. My name is john hamre, im the president at csis. I wanted to say special thanks to Julio Friedmann who is a friend. We have known each other for many years. Hes fortunately in town serving in government more directly. Hes a government guy, hes out at Lawrence Livermore labs but were so pleased he can be here leading at a crucial time when we need to be thinking through a lot of important issues. For a very strange reason, recently i have been doing some personal reading on the history of philosophy, and i was recently reading about Thomas Robert maltous, a british cleric who in the early 18th century who was a very provocative philosopher because he had very dark views about the future of