Good morning everyone. Im going to ask everyone to do me a small favor. If youre sitting in the back, if you dont mind moving up a few rows. Love you. Love you too. Good morning. Welcome and thank you for coming out to join us this morning for the center for critical race and digital studies events on race, technology and the future setting the agenda. Thank you all for making the time. We hope youre able to stick with us for as much of the day as possible. Before we go much further, i want to make a brief acknowledgme acknowledgment. Were gathered on the part of the algonquin people for whom the Anacostia River is named. As we share this space together to critically reflect on issues of race and technology, we begin by acknowledging the forced relocation of Indigenous Peoples as well as the connection to homeland that have endured through Indigenous Strategies of resistance. Again, thank you. My name is charlton mcilwain. I am the vice provost for faculty engagement and development fo
So much for coming on this incredibly dreary night. So cheers to you all for braving it. I think that especially in the pen or whatever were in right now, it feels like the. Its a lot easier to decide not go to something than it might have been before. So cheers to all of you. Im torie bosch and im the editor of future tense, which is a Longstanding Partnership of new america. Arizona state university, slate magazine. And what we do, we look at the intersection of technology, policy and society. We have a channel slate and its up to the slate team here at slate. Com slash future tense. We cover the future and historically we have live events course. Theyve mostly been online for the past two years. So this is of our very first inperson events and its really wonderful to be back here at new america. Were here tonight. Talk about a book i edited for Princeton University press called are not expected to understand this. How six lines of code change the world. Its made up of 26 essays by t
Appropriations committee will please come to order. We are here today to discuss the u. S. China relationship and the investments that we need to keep our nations secure, competitive, strong, and maintain our leadership on the world stage. Let me make clear, from the outset, when we talk about competing against china, and countering chinese influence, we are talking about competing against its government, not the Chinese People or the millions of Chinese Americans who helped make our country great. I am great secretary austin, blinken, and raimondo here to discuss the all of government approach that we need to meet this challenge. This is our first full committee hearing, i do want to thank a vice chair collins, as well as our chairs and Ranking Members testers, coons, shaheen, tester, and moran. For working on us with this topic and others that every member cares about. I want to thank all of my colleagues with their work in the recent weeks to jumpstart the appropriation process. And
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