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good afternoon. i m glad to see our audience survived the flash flood warning. i m michael green, senior vice president for asia and japan here at csis and professor at georgetown. and as the csis host i want to do our usual safety announcement. we survived the flash flood. if for any reason we need to evacuate, it s my responsibility to give you instructions. and the general rule is we ll go out the way you came in and we ll make our way to either national geographic, which is around the corner, or we ll go straight down rhode island to st. matthews. our expectation is half the people will go to starbucks at du pont circle, but that s the plan. i m going to be very brief because i ll have the opportunity to chair a discussion with our very distinguished panel of american and japanese retired senior military leaders. but first i want to turn it over to my friend who has organized this military statesmen forum to tell you about its intent, its purpose and a bit about wha ....
intercept information and leave the backpack plugged in somewhere, that s so much low risk than trying to rob a bank. watch the communicators tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span2. four former chiefs of star, two from the u.s. joint chiefs and two of the joint staff of japan s defense ministry participated in a panel discussion friday on the importance and future of the u.s./japan military alliance. this is almost two hours. good afternoon. i m glad to see our audience survived the flash flood warning. i m michael green, senior vice president for asia and japan here at csis and professor at georgetown. and as the csis host i want to do our usual safety announcement. we survived the flash flood. if for any reason we need to evacuate, it s my responsibility to give you instructions. and the general rule is we ll go out the way you came in and we ll make our way to either national geographic, which is around the corner, or we ll go straight down rhode island to st. matt ....
second official logos were revealed, replacing the ones alleged to have been copied. now there s a probe by french prosecutors into the question of a $2 million payment. translator: i don t believe there were any illegitimate payments. translator: i was involved in the bid myself, but i m not aware of the entire bid process. translator: we will hear from the tokyo government and the japanese olympic committee to understand what s going on. reporter: the prosecutors are looking into bribery of money laundering. they suspect the money was transferred from a japanese bank to a singaporean firm in two installments, one before the international olympic committee chose tokyo. and the second after. the company was located inside a government-run condominium. but according to public records, it was shut down in july 2014. the firm is linked to the family of now-disgraced lamin diak. who was an ioc member when tokyo won the bid. the head of the global governing body for ....
revealed, replacing the ones alleged to have been copied. now there s a probe by french prosecutors into the question of a $2 million payment. translator: i don t believe there were any illegitimate payments. translator: i was involved in the bid myself, but i m not aware of the entire bid process. translator: we will hear from the tokyo government and the japanese olympic committee to understand what s going on. reporter: the prosecutors are looking into bribery of money laundering. they suspect the money was transferred from a japanese bank to a singaporean firm in two installments, one before the international olympic committee chose tokyo. and the second after. the company was located inside a government-run condominium. but according to public records, it was shut down in july 2014. the firm is linked to the family of now-disgraced lamin diak. who was an ioc member when tokyo won the bid. the head of the global governing body for track and field. he was arr ....
on the most contentious issue china s increasing maritime activity in the south china sea. china claims almost the entire south china sea as its own. it s building manmade islands there and has deployed radar and other equipment. vietnam, the philippines and other southeast asian countries claim parts of the sea. i reiterated america s fundamental support for negotiations. and a peaceful resolution. based on the rule of law. as well as obviously our concern about any unilateral steps by any party, whichever claim it, to alter the status quo. translator: china has a right to defend its territorial sovereignty and legitimate maritime interests. we won t accept any ruling by the international tribunal of arbitration requested by the philippines, regarding the south china sea. and our position will not change. an international court is expected to rule on the validity of manila s claim soon. turkish media are reporting that four suspects have been related to tuesd ....