U. S. Foreign policy in africa hosted by the Hudson Institute in washington, d. C. Following the trump administrations unveiling the new diplomatic plan called Africa Strategy. Good afternoon, everyone. Im a fellow here at the Hudson Institute and because we have a short amount of time, im going to go as as we can to our excellent panel and luckily i do not have to give reminder about the rules. We are on the record is so thank you for joining us for this discussion about the future of u. S. Africa relations. Those of you in the room and those viewing on cspan online i am delighted to be joined by a really outstanding panel i will go ahead and introduce them into dive into questions. We have about 40 minutes and try to reserve ten to 15 of that for questions from the audience. Immediately to my left, we have the ambassador senior fellow at the Atlantic Councils African Center and teacher of african affairs. She had a very distinguished career in Public Service in france including as th
Cspan is your unfiltered view of government next a discussion about u. S. Foreign policy in africa after the trump administrations we will hear about chinas growing investment and influence throughout africa and Global Political considerations. This is held by the hudson institute. Good afternoon everyone. I am and because we have a short amount of time, i am going to pin it as quickly as we can to our excellent panel and hopefully i do not have to give out reminders for thank you for joining us for this discussion about the future of u. S. Africa relations. Those of you in the room and on cspan online, i am surrounded by an outstanding panel. I will introduce them. We have about 40 minutes. I will reserve 10 to 15 of those for questions from the audience. Immediately to my left, we have a teacher of african affairs. And the ambassador to france in new mexico, we are happy to have her in washington and sharing her insights with us. Next to her, joshua is a he was previously last but no
Delighted to see the crowd here and the press coverage for our event today which focuses, as you can see, caught in the crossfire, balancing eu relations with the u. S. And china. China is omnipresent these days from investments to High Technology to geostrategy, and its also become quite a factor in u. S. eu relations as well. The United States under President Trump announced a fundamental shift in u. S. Policy towards china, a whole of government approach that was announced here at Hudson Institute by Vice President pence in his historic october 4th speech, and now after years of largely benign view in china, of china in the eu, a view that was parallel to largely benign views held here in the United States by leading opinion makers, viewing china as a strategic partner, as an engine for markets and investments, china is now viewed with shall we say greater nuance in the European Union. Recent guidelines given by the European Commission and european internal Affairs Service talked ab
Im nicholas from the American Enterprise institute. Im going to be your moderator today. Im a ringer from outside. Its an honor for me to be part of this hudson government of japan hrnk event. For translation, English Channel 1. Japanese, channel 2. Korean, channel 3. I think we have compelling testimony and commentary for you today. If i could leave you with two thoughts they would be these. Number one, you will see that the abduction issue is not a small sectarian japan only issue. North korean abductions of innocent civilian occur victim populations the world over. This is an organized state run crime syndicate. Point number two, the north korean government does not abduct innocent victims from nations abroad as a sort of a random, unusual predilection of their state. The violation of human rights that you learn about from worldwide abductions is in the dna of the north korean state. And it is the same contempt for innocent victims abroad that you see visited upon the hapless subjec
Coming back from something but i wanted to be here with you. I wanted to be here also, this is an opportunity for us. Id like to say in advance, the next see and know, you have to be respectful in request, it he cant answer everything. Hes in the environment, where we will not get him in trouble. You want him confirmed. Were not want to make it awkward for him. If he chooses not to answer a question, just accept that. Thats for all of us as we want him to be confirmed. When we have outside groups, we start with a little safety announcement. You may hear, weve never had happened here but we are responsible for it. If we do here and announcement, go through this door over here. Take this down to the ground level, to attend turns into right. National geographic, catalyst exhibit right now. [laughter] if we had to go out there, we dont have an emergency, you do pay for your own ticket. We are very lucky to have him here. Its a difficult time for the country. We got uncertainty about the ch