America. This is just over two hours. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Welcome everyone and good morning. Senatorsing to have participating both live and virtually. Since it is difficult to determine when they showed up virtually, we will go on seniority. If that is agreeable, that is what we will do. Three we welcome witnesses. David stillwell, secretary of state for east asia and pacific affairs. The senior pacific official. Assistant to pity secretary for western affairs. Today, of course, we are going to be talking about china. Obviously, china presents us with many challenges. With opportunities also. Right now, challenges. Ofre has been a lot legislation introduced as far as china is concerned. Bill we introduced earlier that tries to bring together as many as possible. I am told as recently as today or yesterday, the minority introduced a bill of which senator schumer is the lead sponsor, i am told. In any event, this is not a partisan issue. This is an
Rounds of changes of profound impact without having a lasting view of institutions, particularly institutions that have strong democratic roots. So this is what we are doing. It is very simple. It is very complex. And the president promised to deliver many things. And i will say, not first, even nine months, the First Six Months of argentina, the First Six Months of this administration. It proved that what he promised is what he did. And we have reopened the, particularly in economic terms, to the world. We have eliminated all of the hurdles that existed to business with argentina. The president has taken many bold decisions in this regard and one of the ones that clearly has had a huge impact is the agreement with the holdouts, that was there for many, many years and cost our country a lot in terms of opportunities. We are now working on the hardest part which is to translate all the policy decision, all the framework decisions, into things that impact the lives of each one of the arg