Its a great pleasure to see this crowd. You will all get cspan so be on your best behavior. We are here to launch a very important book on the future of the u. S. China relationship called the struggle for power u. S. China relations in the 21st century. I want to say word about that but first i want to recognize some very distinguished guests. I want to recognize the cochair of our Organization Former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice who was here with us. [applause] and youll be hearing from secretary rice in about half an hour. She will be one of our conversationalists. Our other cochair, harvard ever does professor, could not be here with his buddies very much part of this effort. I want to pay tribute to our former secretary of defense and a very good friend of mine, secretary bill cohen and mrs. Janet cohen. Welcome secretary. Janet, welcome. [applause] i want to pay tribute to one of i think one of the people who for me a bodies bipartisanship whos involved in every effort to
[inaudible] next we are going to have a number of important discussions. We particularly appreciate the work being done on peace building and countering violent extremism. And just nominated if you want f1 in building peace where we want to celebrate in their local context and also as a reminder there are people watching online on youtube and twitter. Please join the conversation with politics fragility. Any of our approaches to addressing fragility in gold locally Led Solutions and i can think of no better panel to help us better understand what that looks like than the one we have here. Really happy to introduce raj who will moderate the discussion and will introduce the panelist for us. Hes the president and editor in chief of the leading media platform for Global Development community. Community. Would you please join me in welcoming the panelists and [applause] good morning. I have to agree this is a Remarkable Group of being in the News Business i can say that its rare and in fac
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Next we are going to have a number of important discussions. We particularly appreciate the work being done on peace building and countering violent extremism. And just nominated if you want f1 in building peace where we want to celebrate in their local context and also as a reminder there are people watching online on youtube and twitter. Please join the conversation with politics fragility. Any of our approaches to addressing fragility in gold locally Led Solutions and i can think of no better panel to help us better understand what that looks like than the one we have here. Really happy to introduce raj who will moderate the discussion and will introduce the panelist for us. Hes the president and editor in chief of the leading media platform for Global Development community. Community. Would you please join me in welcoming the panelists and [applause] good morning. I have to agree this is a Remarkable Group of being in the News Business i can say that its rare and in fact maybe its
[inaudible] next we are going to have a number of important discussions. We particularly appreciate the work being done on peace building and countering violent extremism. And just nominated if you want f1 in building peace where we want to celebrate in their local context and also as a reminder there are people watching online on youtube and twitter. Please join the conversation with politics fragility. Any of our approaches to addressing fragility in gold locally Led Solutions and i can think of no better panel to help us better understand what that looks like than the one we have here. Really happy to introduce raj who will moderate the discussion and will introduce the panelist for us. Hes the president and editor in chief of the leading media platform for Global Development community. Community. Would you please join me in welcoming the panelists and [applause] good morning. I have to agree this is a Remarkable Group of being in the News Business i can say that its rare and in fac