Activity and turmoil going on around us. Many of us are back in washington today. Were holding this committee virtually in compliance with the regulations for Remote Committee proceedings pursuant to House Resolution 965. This authority has allowed us to continue to do our work on behalf of the American People, while keeping our staff, families, and the Broader Community safe. We have all started to become familiar with navigating this technology, i do want to remind members of a few procedures. First, consistent with the regulations, the committee will keep microphones muted to limit background noise. Members are responsible for unmuting themselves when they seek recognition or when recognized for their five minutes. Members and witnesses must have their cameras on at all times. Weve got to keep track of you even if you step away from the proceedings. Please leave your camera on rather than logging out. Finally, as you know, we may have votes during todays hearing. It looks like theyr
Issues, not economic ones. That being said, although they are intertwined these days when security is so critical to the United States and japan and to the philippines as well, that being said and the japanese as we all know are too polite to say this, there is unhappiness in japan over president bidens decision to publicly oppose the sale of u. S. Steel to nippon steel so we thought to focus on the importance of u. S. Japan cooperation on Economic Security, on reliable supply chains, on japans significant and longstanding direct investment across the United States and the potential benefits that an enriched u. S. Japan Partnership Offers to American Workers and allied technological leadership. All these things will be on the agenda at the white house next week. We have two panels of experts today. One on Economic Security that i will moderate and another on Foreign Direct Investments that my japan chair colleague will moderate. But first we have the honor of a keynote and discussion w
Between the United States and japan with leaders from the Defense Department and Japanese Ministry officials. The Hudson Institute hosted this visit. Good morning and welcome to Hudson Institute. I serve as japan chair at hudson and i want to welcome our audience here at the bessy and walter Stern Policy Center in washington and i want to welcome our audience on liep and online and through cspan. On the eve of Prime Minister Fumio Kishidas historic visit to the United States on april 10, it seemed like an appropriate moment to examine the benefits of the deep and expanding u. S. And Japan Economic relationship and as all of us in this room have seen on the news reports, including by certain members of our audience here today in the press, about the impressive deliverables that will be coming out of both the u. S. Japan summit on the 10th and u. S. Japanphilippines trilateral summit on the 11th, most of the focus object the discussions will be on security issues, not economic ones. That
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