Provider. Intelligence and state Department Officials from three administrations now on u. S. Policy toward china and russia amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is the host of this discussion. Welcome to todays program, u. S. China and russian china pandemic. In the 1951 scifi classic, the day the earth stood still, a planets is visited by an alien spacecraft bearing a giant robot and an emissary with a very sobering message, mend your differences or face obliteration. The movie concludes with World Leaders pottering their choice. It would be wonderful to believe whether in the form of a Global Pandemic or a threat to modern space that in fact the world would mend its differences but by the looks of things the rivalries and disputes have only grown, certainly magnified in the time of the pandemic and are likely to continue. They are accelerating preexisting patterns of tension and competition. Nowhere it seems is or are there tensions more evid
Ron klain was the evil Ebola Response cornu during the obama administration. He joint Health Policy experts for discussion on the use response to the coronavirus at the center for American Progress in washington, d. C. Good morning, everyone. My name is neera tanden and im pleased to welcome you to the center for American Progress. I am so glad you could join us for this critically important conversation. The death toll from the coronavirus now exceeds 3200 with more than 200 cases confirmed inside the United States. As Health Officials warn the coronavirus will ultimately become widespread in the United States, serious questions have emerged about have the federal government is responding. Around the world countries are beginning to take significant measures including restricting travel, closing schools, postponing religious pilgrimages and imposing quarantines. Critics say the Trump Administration has been slow to address this impending crisis. The present editing have said to downpl
Growing misuse of the currencies via money launderers, terrorist financiers and other bad players. This week representatives of the project will go to capitol hill to discuss the proposal for a crypto currency. At the Treasury Department across the u. S. Government with the International Financial community, theres been a great deal of activity recently related to the regulation and treatment of Digital Assets in crypto currency. Id like to give some brief explanatory remarks about what we have been doin been giving bt since theres lots of interest and then i will open up questions. Last month the association, a consortium of 28 businesses including a facebook subsidiary announced it is developing a crypto currency. The Treasury Department has expressed very serious concerns that libra could be misused by money launderers or terrorist financiers. Crypto currency have been exploited to support billions of dollars of Illicit Activity like cybercrime, tax evasion, extortion, ran somewhere
Recently as you know theres been a great deal of interest about Digital Assets including crypto currency such as that claim and libra. There are many regulatory and supervisory question regarding Virtual Assets and Virtual Currencies but i will focus narrowly on the concerns the treasury has regarding the growing misuse of the currencies via money launderers, terrorist financiers and other bad players. This week representatives of the project will go to capitol hill to discuss the proposal for a crypto currency. At the Treasury Department across the u. S. Government with the International Financial community, theres been a great deal of activity recently related to the regulation and treatment of Digital Assets in crypto currency. Id like to give some brief explanatory remarks about what we have been doin been giving bt since theres lots of interest and then i will open up questions. Last month the association, a consortium of 28 businesses including a facebook subsidiary announced it
We need to focus the staff people on doing the research for whats coming next. Its the same people. Its appraisers doing market data research. Supervisor excuse me. It seems as though what im hearing from president yee is at one time the Assessors Office requested more assistance, more ftes to address the backlog for so long and through diligent work, youve gone through the backlog at an impressive rate so i think what president yee is asking is why are you keeping them in the budget and youre saying theres new work now. Thats right. Supervisor but actually the funding for those particular ftes were specifically tied to the request of the backlog. I think what im paraphrasing is what president yee is questioning whether those ftes should be reevaluated by the board since the board was the one to first grant the additional ftes to address the backlog and whether the ftes should be assigned to the new job of collecting the data. I dont think were questioning theres a need but the process