Programs pop. Global leaders, city, delight and united airlines, corporate partners, we would also like to thank our coorganizer, the young china watchers. It is a great flour be working with them for tonights program. Now it is my pleasure to welcome miss vicki lai, the cofounder and head of the new york chapter of young china watcher ford her brief remarks. [applause] good evening, everyone. Im vic year and lai and im the head of the young china watch america new york. Im behalf of the young chinaer watchers in new York Leadership Team who is in front, we would like to thank the Japan Society for this amazing opportunity to host this evening together. And thank you all for joining us. We have a fantastic evening for you. Our Organization Young china watchers is a Dynamic Group of china focuses young professionals. Through regular roundtables and talks with senior figures in the china academic policy and business communities, we provide a chance for engaged individuals to interact and
Idea is essentially to try and make peace with the arab world 1st israel to talk and make peace we are the world 1st and then sort out an agreement with the palestinians rather than what is the current idea which is for israel to reach a deal with the palestinians and then make peace with the rest of the arab world this conference is sort of helping to create this scenario or this sets up where they are world and dealing with arab world comes 1st dealing with palestinians comes seconds is sort of chicken and egg situation sort of burnet i suppose because if you wonder what the long term aim that is the of the conference is with regard to the fact that the Political Part of the deal apparently isnt going to be released until after the israeli general election in september and therefore the ground realities could be very different bye then. Well a bit where we do we do know that jarrett cushion has essentially said in the interview that he gave with aljazeera before this conference start
Breaking overnight, the iranian president and foreign minister of iran killed in a Helicopter Crash. Lets get to correspondent Richard Engel with more. Reporter we just got word a few hours ago that the helicopter carrying the president of iran, raisi and the foreign minister and others crashed. There was a search and rescue operation where they did not find any survivors in the crash debris. This delegation of three helicopters and one went down carrying the president after he left the border area of iran and azerbaijan in foggy conditions. I have spoken with u. S. Officials who say the cause was foul weather. Iran, lots of speculation on social media, eiran is not pointing fingers at israel or the United States. This does create a few leadership issues or potential succession crisis for the Supreme Leader in iran. The president in iran doesnt call the shots. He carries out the policy of the Supreme Leader. President raisi was not exactly tapped. It is more hidden politics in iran. He
[inaudible conversations] im looking for someone to give me a thumbs up here. So im just going to assume that we have achieved conditions for launch. So were going to go and try to follow an excellent set of keynote addresses from duelling Foreign Ministers, secretary of states, and outlined the session well. I know i speak for the entire panel and really want to make a strong contribution to this really important event here today in washington. To try to keep up with, again, the secretary and foreign minister, we do have an allstar panel to kick this off and i am going to go through their bios very, very briefly, the truncated version. Theyre famous already, and look online for their storied past and were going into the future. And left to right, i wasnt told that i would be in the middle. Ambassador Kathy Stevens to start. Everybody knows kathy, currently the president and ceo of kei, chair of the Korea Society, a fantastic gala last week up in new york. Former ambassador to the Unit
Then we would understand the burden we p put on the backs of small businesses. A couple things you would see in my bill not our plan is immediate expensing that accelerates the path of more Resources Available immediately for small businesses. The secondo say thing you would do is cut taxes. We did that in 2017. 2017. In 2017 that was one01 of the three wee believe this at the point and you can watch it in full cspan. Org. We take you live now to a forum looking at the use Korea Alliance. It is being hosted by the center for strategic and International Studies you will hear from secretary of state Antony Blinken and maryland senator chris van hollen. You are watching live coverage on cspan2. The cree Foundation Fred kempe is here dash that weve had this conference and its always been for me to highlight and is always been very important probably never as important as it is this year when you think that everything that is going on. Weve got, well, we dont really know whats going on in c