Good morning. My name is chairmans mark. Im a senior fellow with the Geoeconomics Center of Atlantic Council. I would like to welcome you to our next session where we are going to dig into development and finance, chinas lending, aid, its investments and what is being called the global south. Im going to use the moderators privilege and refer to low income and middle Income Countries. That seems to be a more neutral term than what we were using before. Real quickly, just to introduce the topic. We found a great deal today about a lot of the big picture aspects of chinas interaction with the developing world. And to think what were going to try to do here is sort of dig into the lifeblood of this interaction, which is money. The lending investment and a that china has offered to both low income and middle Income Countries over the past decade amounts to a vast sum, well over a trillion dollars. Based on a data statistics the commitment or even larger than that. Theres a lot of issues th
And with that i will turn it over to linda. Thank you, sandy. We will move right into logistics. Im going to in this helen osman, secretary of communications for the u. S. Catholic conference of bishops, court in getting Media Coverage next month which, of course, is why we are all the. Shes been with usccb since 2007 and has been a major player in bringing the church into the digital and social media age. In 2012 the Catholic Press association honored her with the st. Francis award for personal achievement and were happy to have her with us today. Thank you, linda. I appreciate evolving willing to work with me on Getting Started on time. I have some meetings thats mandatory for me answer of my colleagues to be at, at 10 00. I have a few slides, but i like to give more time for yall to ask questions if thats okay with everyone. I thought i would go over very quickly, but of whats different from previous papal visit. I was in the same role in 2008 when Pope Benedict game. And worked wit
Topic in the technicalities involved in the topics that people definitely recognized that this is a threat and this will only become an increasing threat as we move into a more interconnected digital age. We can talk about the internet of things or all of our devices Start Talking to one another, driverless cars. As we put more stuff into the cloud and are connected to each other that increases potential areas that can be attacked and we can continue to grow and Leverage Technology for good that we have to begin with security and how we protect that information. Guest another issue you have been active on congressman is something called the arrangement. Thereve been talks recently. Administration officials have gone to vienna and tried to list some of these export control restrictions for cybersecurity countries that have you done any update on how those talks went and is not what would you like to see as the ideal outcome . Will would be the final thing you would like to see happen to
Set the goal of rewriting the rules. s so more Companies Share profits with their employees, not just their executives, instead of shifting profits and jobs overseas, we have got the greatest country in the greatest economy in the world, lets start acting like it. Lets make it clear that the companies have to be part of that greatness [applause]. Lets set the goal of makinggoag sure that wall street and the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes. Of ways of now there are a couple ways of doing this. I have been proposing a number of them, something called thee buffett rule after warren buffetts. No millionaire should pay a lower tax rate than somebody working for him, like his secretary. [applause]. The people who have profited the most, even since the Great Recession of people now need to give back. This country hasry given so much to all of us. Everybody should share the burden. I have made a pledge, i will not raise taxes on the middle class, but, but we are going to raise taxes on c
50 or 60 . The problem is, all the other risks involved. Even if you have this one woman why are we changing the policy based on one woman . The problem is this is just about a couple of women who want to. First of all, now women are subject to involuntary assignment, because that is what repealing the combat exception means. The women who are willing and maybe able, when they succumb to their two to ten times greater risk of injury, their replacements are going to come from the pool of the unwilling, and most women in the marine corps and in the overall forces are not interested in the infantry. Right now, we dont have any who have applied of the ones who were in that integration study or who have gone through Marine Infantry Training battalions. We had a lot of trouble finding any women who want to. This is a deterrent for recruitment as well. There is a 2012 study of the marine corps, 54,000 covered, thatfound that, about 4 of women who are staying and would not stay in if involunta