hello, if you havejustjoined us, you are very welcome. let s crack on with the top business stories. we start in san francisco where, as you have been hearing, president biden has hailed real progress following four hours of talks with china s president xi on the sidelines of the apec summit. they agreed to reopen communications between the military on both sides and work together to stem the flow of the opioid drug fentanyl into the us. but there was no concession from the us on lifting trade sanctions on china including the export ban on advanced computer chips which president xi had complained is harming china. the united states will continue to compete vigorously with the prc, but we ll manage that competition responsibly so it doesn t veer into conflict, or accidental conflict. and where it s possible, where our interests are.coincide, we re going to work together like we did on fentanyl. that s what the world expects of us. the rest of the world expects no
important because they touch local communities. every one of them is about a local community in some way. we have to keep making that pitch. we also need to make this argument about the public relevance and how not only how much poorer we would be without them and the work that we do but how incapacitated we would become if we did not have these entities doing what they do. with only two years left of the obama administration how do you approach priorities to get as much done as you can? i was just talking about this with a few people this morning. i think we have to think about the most important things 1st of all. and sort them out. things that would be reasonably pursued in his timetable. there is a way that i and my administration might have a longer life than that. we do understand there is this big moment coming. the scope of the work that we agree to take on we don t want to take on things that could not reasonably be done for eight years. that is too far. trying a
u.s. cuba relations and wonder how much of the ideas heard the word thought i d never thought it would be a good place to be. [laughter] but we re glad you are here. but it is consistent with the other cuba related events but over the years cuba has captures the imagination i remember back when we were trying to get support for the west colombia free trade agreement that enjoys a lot of support from clocks on this panel with columbia represented the generating interest now in that was limited compared to cuba which seems to capture the imagination and. is not on the politics of the u.s. cuba relations we don t have time to go through the long history but it is an emotional issue. there are families to have the property confiscated whose families were attended and have strong views with the current government in cuba but today we will focus on the president s announcement and what the perspectives are from the legal and business community i want to mention in that category of
honors the rangers who gave their lives under heroic circumstances. we have paintings of all those rangers. they begin with steven f austin. he was very successful with his rangers. they fought not only managed to make the area reasonable safe from indian raids but when the texas war for independence broke out the rangers played a major role in texas gaining its independence by sending off the mexican army long enough to allow the colonist to build their own army and as a result texas became its own individual nation, the republic of texas for several years. . good afternoon and welcome. my name is myron bellkind, i m a professor, former bureau chief for associated press and 107th president of the national press clu club. we are committed to our future with events such as this while fostering a free press worldwide. for more information about the nation press club please visit our website at press.org. i d like to welcome our speaker and those of you attending today s event
from the center fs the citizen strategy teej it and international studies, this is an hour and 20 minutes. i think we re going to get started, if everyone could take their seats, get their coffees or waters, bring them to their tables, we re going to get started here. welcome, everybody. welcome to csis, and thank you for weathering the cold weather here in d.c. joining us today. today s event with my colleague, elizabeth nuhaus. before we get to senator blake s remarks, i just want to offer a brief explanation of what makes today s conference titled getting to normal, a legal pathway for u.s.-cuba policy reform, different from all cuba gatherings that take place here in d.c. as i look in the crowd, i see a lot of familiar faces, welcome to everybody. folks that have covered cuba for a long time, so i just want to sort of justify why on a rainy morning in washington, d.c. we re here to talk about cuba. let me start