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The chair of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on asia, the pacific, and nonproliferation provided an update on Global Cooperation during the coronavirus pandemic. California congressman ami bera talked about the council how countries can Work Together to address the pandemic. Minutes,e next 25 congressman bra and i will discuss the post covid world order, and then we are going to open up the conversations to questions from our members. Thank you for joining us today, congressman. Thank you for that introduction. Certainly i want to thank the council for this opportunity. When you look at the list of participants, there are a lot of people that we use for contact expertise. Im sure we will have a lively discussion. Lets get started. Since the outbreak of the covid debatec, a fascinating has emerged about t ....
Discussion. Great. Lets get started. Since thesi outbreak of the covd pandemic, a faceting debate has emerged about the potential impact of the coronavirus on the global order. Some experts are maintaining the virus will have a transformative effect. For example, doctor Henry Kissinger has written the world will never be the same after the coronavirus, andy ward that the pandemic could up in the global order. And then there are people like professor joan i who contends that the pandemic is unlikely to be a a political turning pointd he believes many aspects of globalization will endure and suggest despite u. S. Mishandling of the pandemic that the balance of hard power and soft power will night shift fromm the unitd states to china which is of course part of the debate. Id like to start with a broad question. Do you think, congressman bera, that the pandemic will affect the global order inconsequential ways . If so, how . I certa ....
World order and we will open up to questions from members. Thank you for joining us today, congressman. Thank you for that introduction. I want to thank the counsel for this opportunity. When you look at the list of participants, there are a lot of [indiscernible] lets get started. Since the outbreak of the covid debatec, a fascinating emerged about the potential impacts of the coronavirus on the global order. Some experts are maintaining that the virus will have a transformative effect. There are people who contend that the pandemic is unlikely to be a geopolitical turning point. He believes many aspects of globalization will endure despite the u. S. Is handling the u. S. s handling of the pandemic. Frompower will not shift the and United States to china, which is part of the debate. I would like to start with a broad question. Do you think that the covid pandemic will affect the global order in consequential ways . If so, how . T ....
Well what is the problem . And when you start thinking about what is the problem, it goes to a lot of different directions. You have an issue of global migration, you have immigration and immigration policy. You have refugees and displaced persons, and you have the treatment and according to the un, there are 272 million migrants in the world, so you talk about people that have moved from country to country, that is a large number. There have been three and a half part of the global perception, but the bigger number is 70 million displaced persons, and if you think about, that we are living at a time when we see more people forced out of their lives and out of their homes. And you see these people on the move. Over half of the refugees that are in other countries are from three countries, syria afghanistan, and south sudan, which is also really striking. When you think about what this means for policies, then theres obviously policies for handling refugees, policies for migration, poli ....
Stop at 11 00 am this morning, weve got a series of votes, ant we are going to observe an actual ten minute clock. Its the first time in senate history, but thats the goal this morning. So we want to be able to hear from everyone this morning, ande have an opportunity for the very, very important conversations regarding this issue. We are here today to discuss the impact of wildfires on the reliability of our electric grid and efforts to mitigate wildfire risk and increase grid resiliency. In recent years, devastating wildfires and related electricity blackouts in california have drawn National Attention to the challenge of maintaining grid resiliency in the face of extreme conditions. Tragically, we remember last years camp fire, the deadliest and most destructive fire inou california history, which incinerated the town of paradise, killed 85 people. Ve state investigators determined that the fire was caused by degraded, 97ye ....