asian americans worked as coal miners and laborers. it's estimated that 14 million americans, if not more, can trace their ethnic heritage to asia or the pacific islands. establishing may as asian pacific american heritage month affords them the opportunity to teach the history of asian americans and pacific islanders during the school year. observing asian american and pacific islanders contributions highlights their importance of building our america. for example, chinese immigrants played a significant role in construction of the first transcontinental railroad which was completed on may 10, 1869. asian americans and pacific islanders have contributed to this country through the arts, commerce and every other aspect of american culture since they first arrived in the 19th century. whether it is in the arse or government or science or -- arts or government or the science they have played a fundamental role in our nation's technological and economic expansion. as well as the every other fabric of life we can think of. their accomplish

to celebrate and commemorate asian and pacific american heritage. that all began back in 1977 when representative frank -- representatives frank

the east asian summit and plus 3. both india and the united states are, in a sense, outsiders. we are a part of apec, the indian government is a part of the east asian summit, but in the next couple of years it seems to me there's going to have to be decisions both within asia and also by the united states and india as to how we want to participate and in which institutions. some of you may know last year and he's still pushing it pretty hard kevin rudd, the then new premier of australia has been pushing an asia-pacific community which would combine economic security and political. that is not, he has not gotten very far with that, but i don't think he's going to give up, and it has caused others to say we may not agree with kevin rudd, but we need to go forward. so i think both india and the united states are going to have to, as i say, make some decisions. the administration, for instance, there is on the table now the so-walled p-4 agreement -- so-called p-4 agreement which is a little dart that schwab sent their w

asian powers playing a key role in stabilizing afghanistan. the u.s. and e.u. working together to engage china and india on global climate change. the g20 bringing together key asian and european partners to address the global financial crisis. north korea -- i don't have to say much about the. security developments in the pacific such as the development of long-range ballistic missiles impact the debate on missiles in europe. i think this link has been apparent since the u.s. entered world war ii in europe after the attack in the pacific so, admiral, the atlantic council will continue to float its boat as well in the pacific. i now want to turn the podium over to the honorable walt slocombe the vice chair of the atlantic council and former undersecretary of defense for policy. he's going to#9 introduce our speaker and will later moderate the q & a session. walt, who's now with kaplan and drysdale is -- and this is not an overuse of the word, a pillar of the atlantic council. he provides me and the rest of our leadership strategic advice as well as sound legal

the first one comes from research that has been done in the asian american community. there are a lot of perceptions as far as health education benefits, most of them tend to be on the bell curve in terms of distribution of income, access, what have you. this goes to immigrant populations as well. to what extent is linguistic and cultural competence, has an impact on equality and treatment of health care for those who need it. >> i will take the first one. as i mentioned earlier, that has definite if not significant tremendous impact in terms of the factors we mentioned here today. in terms of presenting some of the data, we alluded to this issue. implicit with this ability to provide cultural linguistic care, a patient understands what you are talking about, not only that the patient understands, you understand the patient is important because it is something that is harder to capture significantly in the hard-core outcomes that peter and others have spoken about. other parts of the data, we see these intrinsic, implicit factors. i want to allude to the other thing yo

the first one comes from research that has been done in the asian-american community. as you know, there are a lot of different perceptions of the asian american community. most of them tend to be in a u- shaped curve. this goes to new immigrant populations as well. to what extent does linguistic and cultural competency and access have on access for those who need it. i throw the open to the panel. >> i will take a first stab at that. as i mentioned earlier, it has a definite if not significant enough not tremendous impact on some of the civil factors that we have today. we alluded to a concordance between providers. i think that, implicit with that, is the ability to provide that care. i think that if a patient understands what you are talking about, but that you understand the patient. it is particularly important. the it is harder to capture in some of the other outcomes that others have spoken about, but that is what is implicit in that 40%. those are the other parts of data were you see these intrinsic and implicit factors. i want to also allude to that other poin

finally, monica of the segues into my other favorite genre which this south asian books. i have to hear, one is cutting for stone it is about a opposition. it is really hard to describe because it is an epic, very fat epic novel. we have got lots of people coming into the store to say how much they love this book. in he is a physician in the united states and emigrated here from ethiopia where his family were protestant missionaries. a lot of cutting for stone takes place in ethiopia and a lot takes place in the united states. and it is lush, beautiful riding, about madison and about and immigration and it is about ethiopia and bad times. it is a wonderful book. and the other book, a south asian book takes place in calcutta and is called sacred gains. it is in the tradition of of life imitating art. what happened in mumbai last year was almost as though they were following a script from sacred games in six games is dominated by two major characters, an underworld boss who has all kinds of ties to nationalist groups and so although he is interested in money he is also doin

get back, the congressional agency for asian-american, is the island for the congress. and i'm very proud of them. the long working long hours hours that our task force chaired and i represent quÉbec. congresswoman, who represents the territory of guam, and also a new member, the congress that represents, congressman. were just very glad for him to join us today. we want to make sure that we stand firmly with our partners cbc, to ensure that we move in the right direction and health reform. and that's why we need to strengthen existing workforce diversity programs, create new programs and investing community for health care. must be integrated for the whole of the health reform bill and not relegated to one little or one title, or an afterthought. the great expenses that we see and that we have struggling with in the past with regard to health care has been originating from those gaps that we have described. the time is now for congress and the president to come together on this issue and i look forward to continuing my dialogue with the leadership on this important iss

evans riviera is the president of the three a society and former deputy assistant of east asian pacific affairs. if leon sigal is professor of social science research council in new york and author of disarming strategy is, of a agreed framework, and that nancy lindborg is president of mercy corps and work inside the north korea to help deliver food aid to women and children in many parts of the poorest parts of the country. they are greatly appreciated for their expertise being here and i just introduced ambassador bosworth, as many people know he is one of our most distinguished veterans of the diplomacy in the united states. served in many different posts. i had the pleasure and senator lugar did also way back -- way back in 1986. i were two recklessly with ambassador bosworth and senator lugar was then chair and worked very closely with him on the philippines and we had many meetings in many visits to the philippines as we transition to the democracy from the marcos regime and it was a really astounding transition. i will say again as i have said previously in public that we were lu

and east asian minds india was thought of as a part of south asia. and so it was never thought that they would be part of a regional construction, and now that's no longer the case. >> i just want to say one thing looking to the future. i think everybody thinks about india as a great service power, but if you look at what india's goals are vis-a-vis the developed countries, it is actually to achieve real openings in manufactured goods. i think they feel newfound competence in their ability to compete with developed country companies, and that is where they're going to be looking, for example, with europe and someday if they're ever going to negotiate with the united states. i think with singapore where the increase in trade has been in the services area. >> chow chen, freelance correspondent. my question would be to arvind, but other members in the panel could respond. climate change is a global issue, and change is due to the years making by the developing country the personal lifestyle and industrial manufacturing. so what do you think, what do you

finally, monica ali segways into my other favorite genre which is south asian books. i have two here, one is abraham verghese, cutting for stone, which is about a physician who -- well, it's really hard to describe because it's a epic, very fat epic novel. we've gotten lots of people have been coming into the store to say how much they love this book. verghese is a physician in the united states who emigrated here actually from ethiopia where his family were protestant missionaries, and this -- a lot of cutting for stone takes place in ethiopia, and a lot takes place in a hospital in the united states, and it's lush, beautiful writing. it's about medicine and about immigration, and it's about ethiopia in bad times, and it's a wonderful book. and the other book that i -- south asian book takes place in calcutta, and it's called sacred games, and it's by vikram chan chandra, and it's in the tradition of life imitating art. what happened in mumbai last year was almost as though they were following a script from sacred games. and sacred games is dominated by two major cha

it does not matter whether you are black, white, hispanic, asian, or whatever.don't all people have the same rights? to push for one race over another -- to include certain people over other people, it is not right. it is about everybody. it is about everyone's rights. look at the native americans that have suffered. they were put on reservations. host: michael, we are running short. we will get an answer for you. guest: i think you're right. the goal is to be all inclusive in the opportunities available to have justice for all. we see some milestones. how long did it take before we had a president that is not a white male? how long will it take before we get a latino on the supreme court? how long will it take to get an openly gay american as the secretary of defense? the goal is to do that. the problem is overcoming the history and being aware of it to do something about it so that we can move to where we want to be. that is really what the problem is. host: the last call is from tommy in chicago. caller: i want to make a quick comment. i have one question. my

he has also worked for the asian development bank, world bank, imf, injuries capacities. he has also published extensively including a recent book i-india, the emerging giant. my colleague claude barfield is a resident scholar here at aei. is the author or editor of a number of books on trade and science policy. and has also served as an advisor to the office of the u.s. trade representative. our format will follow the one of the prior panel. each panelist will present eight to 10 minute remarks. we will then open up the floor for questions. so with that, i will turn the discussion over to susan. >> thank you and good morning, everyone. several factors provide a stronger foundation for u.s.-india cooperation today on bilateral and multilateral trade and economic issues than has been the case in the past. first the implications of the recent indian election your second, the extent of ties between u.s. and indian business today. and third, the fact that we are building on the stork u.s.-india civil nuclear agreement. there is, therefore, a case for optimism for some progres

finally, this book and segue and to my other favorite shawn bridges south asian books. i have two of them hear. one is here cutting four stone which is about a position it is very hard to describe because it is a very fact epic novel and lots of people have been coming into the store to say how much they love this book. the author is a position in the united states that immigrated here actually from ethiopia where his family were protestant missionaries. a lot of the book takes place in ethiopia and a lot takes place in the united states in a hospital and it is lush, beautiful riding about medicine and immigration and ethiopia it in bad times and 80 wonderful book. another book that takes place in calcutta and it is called an sacred games. in the tradition of life imitating art 1/2 bid in mobile last year it happened as almost they were following a script from sacred games and it is dominated by two major characters, the underworld boss who has all kinds of ties to nationalist groups he is doing the will of some of the fundamentalist, the hindu fundamentalist politician

finally it monica ali segues into my other favorite genre which is south asian books. i have to hear, one is abraham -- cutting for stone which is about a physician, it is really hard to describe because it is an epic, very fact epic novel. we have gone on so people coming into the store to say how much they love this book. in -- it is about a position in the united states who emigrated here and chilly autumn ethiopia where his family where protestant missionaries and a lot of cutting for stone takes place in ethiopia and a lot of it takes place in the united states in a hospital in the united states. it is a rush -- lush beautiful writing about medicine and immigration and it is about ethiopia in bad times and it is a wonderful book. the other book, south asian book takes place in calcutta and is called a sacred games and is by -- it is in that tradition of life imitating art. it would have been in mumbai last year was almost as though they were following a script from sacred games. sacred games is dominated by two major characters. an underworld boss who has all kind

female announcer: introducing sweet & spicy asian chicken. one of three new chicken temptations from wendy's. it's waaaay better than fast food. it's wendy's. joits time to bring you up  speed with the at&t rapid rewind. >> buck: rich hill got off to a great start against coghlan, bonifacio and hanley ramirez all swinging, but the marlins made a quick adjustments. -- adjustment. cody ross hitting with two outs in the second hits a two-run home run and that was the score 3-0, dan uggla hits another two- run home run. thatgame came in the third inning. that's where we stand here top of the fifth. >> jim: at&t, the nation's fastest 3g network, at&t, your world delivered. so, rich hill still on goes to work in the bottom of the fifth. he had a very strong fourth inning three up, three down. already has six strikeouts in this game, but he has been hurt by those two two-run homers. >> buck: it's something that has not been a problem for him throughout the course of his season as jim mentioned earlier in the game, he had given up just one home r

what we saw is the people that have this condition have hyperactive asian during the anticipation phase in the edna padilla and reward pathway in their brain and was pronounced and what we further salles is when they act like consumed the food and tasted the food that elevation which we always thought, had a -- the nero pathways remained activated and will hyperactive feet until all the food is gone. so for the first time we have evidence. certainly evidence is emerging was that lack of control, hard time resisting it's not a matter of willpower. literally the brains of millions of people are being hijacked by this highly palatable food. let me put it together. "the washington post" -- "the washington post" outed me because i wanted to know -- i want to understand the science but i also wanted to go inside the industry. and we worked at the fda, and number of you together, we worked -- you know that nutrition facts panel that we worked on, someone in the food industry said to me kessler, the obesity epidemic is all your fault and i looked at him and i said what are you talking about? he

>> what about asian liquidity underpriced asian currencies relative to the u.s. dollar? could any of this have been possible if the liquidity from asia had not been available for put to use in the united states and europe? >> this is one of the great warning signs that economists now is. for a tender 15 years, we had a great inflow of money from china into the united states. where was it coming from? the average chinese making $1,200 per year and saving 40% of it. the average american making 45,000 per year and had negative savings. did not save $1. this is the first time in the history of the world where the poorest country honored was lending 40% of the and come to the richest country on earth and that should have set off alarms. the story nobody would tell in the media because they are sponsor supported it is clearly americans braun a consumption binge buying anything that moved because there were not spending their money. the chinese making the product cheaply, a lot of the products from wal-mart today would cost 10 times as much if not for the chinese bree donnelley

asian powers playing a key role in stabilizing afghanistan. the u.s. and eu working together to engage china and india on global climate change. the g-20 bringing together key asian and european partners to address the global on a crisis. if north korea, i do not have to say much about that. security developments in the pacific such as the developer of a long-range ballistic missiles and backed the debate on missiles in europe. i think this link has been apparent since the u.s. entered world war ii double in europe. the council will continue to flood of boat as well in the pacific. and now want to turn the podium over to the hon. walter slocombe, vice chair of the atlantic council and former undersecretary of defense for policy. he will introduce our speaker and later a moderate the q&a session. he's now with kaplan and was a pillar of the atlantic council. he provides me into the rest of our leadership strategic advice as well as sound legal advice and is still free walking around and have not yet been incarcerated. that is because of wall slocombe. i

asian-americans are much more likely to suffer from liver cancer as compare odd the general populations, so we have seen over the past many, many decades of health disparities reporting an emergence and reconfirming of data in terms of morbidity and mortality on minority populations across the board. i want to mention that one of the significant challenges we face in documenting health disparities are data gaps when we look at specific subpopulations, so we face collecting data on native american and specific asian-american and pacific eye rander subpopulations as well as some hispanic populations across the board, but from the data we have seen over the past two or three decades, we have seen a continued confirmation of the existence of health disparities in minority populations. so what is the cause of these disparities? well, it's certainly multifact tomorrow, and i can tell you as a policymaker that i've seen the full spectrum of impact just in diagnosing specific diseases within minority communities but looking at this on the population level as well. and it is certainly related to

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national security studies at the national bureau of asian research and the general of the army omar n. bradley strategic leadership at dickinson college and of the army war college. he was also the president of the institute for defense analysis, a federally funded development corporation focused on national security and serve as deputy executive director of the project and national security reform. i can't say anything more admiral blair, you have done it all. we became the third director of national intelligence on january 29, 2009. directors blair has been gracious enough to share his priorities for the intelligence community and if we are lucky we will give insights from his recent trip which included stops in afghanistan pakistan and singapore. i hope you'll join me tonight in welcoming the director national intelligence, director dennis blair. [applause] >> thank you ellen. eight is good to be here this evening. their way to many friends in the audience for me to tell my usual stories. you have either heard them before or know that they are wrong, so i will have to make it up he

after retiring from the navy in 2002, he worked at the national bureau of asian research and a general of the army at dickinson college. he was also president of the institute for defense analysis focused on a national security. he served as the deputy director of a project on national security reform. i cannot say any more, admiral blair, you have done at all. he has been gracious enough to share his priorities for the intelligence community. if we are lucky, we will get some insights from his recent trip to asia which he had stopped in afghanistan, pakistan, and singapore. please welcome our guests. [applause] >> thank you ellen. eight is good to be here >> thank you. it is good to be here this evening. there are many friends. ong, so i will have to make it up here as i go along. but, it is a pleasure to be here with all of you who have been friends of longstanding and come together as a group to support u.s. intelligence. let me start by thanking for the truly and press the devitt alliance of movers and shakers in the intelligence and national security communities. there's certainly

he focuses on north korea and asian studies at a.e.i. next, a call from sheila in ohio, republican line. good morning. thanks for phoning in. caller: thank you very much. why don't we use our submarine, our united states submarine and its missiles to bomb their missile sites? guest: well, i think that there are really no good military options right now with respect to north korea. we're stretched very thin around the world. we always have to worry about north korean retaliation. they really hold the capital of south korea, seoul, at risk. it's very close to where north korea has all of its artillery. seoul is a beautiful and very vibrant city. so we really have to be careful about military actions that -- it wouldn't just be a one-off action. we have to be really concerned about retaliation. host: let me go back to this headline, front page of the "u.s. times." in listening to some of the discussions over the last 24 hours or so it seems like there are two different tracks dealing with these two journalists and getting them freed and the

wants to free themselves and to drive -- and pose a secular democracy on the fight against islam as asian and they are not about to let it happen again so you do see a very vibrant reactions against the emergence of the islamist parties. >> host: one thing we need to talk about in this out were that's gone by quickly and i hope it has for the viewers as well. you're a great storyteller and person as well as on the page is this huge desolate sometimes threatening pakistani province of baluchistan in the southwest corner, the big boot in southwest pakistan through the wild to a port that pakistan dreams of developing with chinese help as a world-class outlet for asian oil and gas. >> guest: the sport is called gwadar -- it's what the government is sort of banking on. this would become the next dubai. so when i went there in the fall of 27, they had just built a glorious five-star hotel up on the top of -- it's a hammer head shape today and on the top of this hammerhead shaped herber, and what's happened though is that in doing this and building this part and investing so much confidence, th

. >> i am concerned whenever any broadcast asian goes dark. base shut operations down and the voice competition that i talked about alive was blue in the face. that is a net loss for the american people. there is no doubt about that. >> i think it is a perfect forum for the broadcast industry. this is an unprecedented downturn in advertising revenue due to a number of trends in the economy coming together rep the same time. -- coming together at the same time. i think it is unfortunate. i am not sure that it is the last that we will hear a broadcaster shutting down. not unless this economy turns around pretty quickly. >> i am very concerned. i think it is just the beginning of what we may be hearing in terms of bad news on the horizon. many broadcasters rely on auto dealers for about 30 percent sign of their ad revenue and now we have thousands of auto dealers being closed around the country. this will be a pain for broadcasters across the country. hopefully, going forward, the commission will take the it broadcasting dress and consideration.

the best thing i can do for the african-american or latino or asian community is to get the economy as a whole moving. hold on one second. let me into the question. if i do not do that, i will not be able to help anybody. that is the first priority. it is true that in certain inner-city communities, the unemployment rate was very high before the recession. the letters available for people to enter into the job market are even worse. we are interested in looking at proven programs that help people on a pathway to jobs. there is a reason why right before father's day of went to a program here in washington which has a proven track record of taking young, mostly minority people, some of whom have graduated from high school or have just gotten their ged, and train them on computers and other technical skills, along with how to carry themselves in the office, right in e-mail, some of the social skills that will allow them to be more employable. they have a terrific placement rate after a one-year program. if we can duplicate some of those programs, then we will do so. we want to find tools

they are just clicking left and in fact if you look in the document asian there is a big hole on the left side of the room so i talked to my technician and said what is going on and he said there are probably 39 people dedicating themselves to just clicking left, and so i start chatting with them like who are you and they said we saw so many people shooting at you we established a group called the virtual human shield and we are going to defend you, and some people from the right start complaining and said wafaa not to ban these people taking the gun away and i said no, i mean, just they are members and you can direct the gone to the right and shoot and i said there are practicing their rights or should i say left. [laughter] yes, please. >> can you talking little bit more about the chat rooms and incite people may have gained about the burr by participating in the artwork? >> when you visit the site it was very playful, you know, a guy hawking himself in a room and you could really direct a gun and shoot at him with a paint ball and you know you are not going to kill him and it's a

and more broadly in the northeast asian region. we're working together for that and. the message to north korea is that it does not benefit from taking further steps to destabilize the peninsula, or the larger region. it pays a price for that action. >> what was the reason you gave [inaudible] >> no symbolic message at all. we have worked extremely hard over the course -- that is another question. we have worked extremely hard over the last two and a half plus weeks with colleagues to get to where we got to today. we were confident that we were going to get a unanimous vote. and a strong set of statements by members of the council, we have that and with that i was comfortable with being here today. >> if there is a change in government, [inaudible] >> american policy with respect to iran and its nuclear program is not dependent on which administration is governing iran. our view is that iran -- the lives -- is a limit republic of iran ought to not pursue its nuclear program. its nuclear weapons program and that will not change depending on the outcome of the election.

and the engineering school and the mass and the biological sciences as well, are very, very heavily asian americans of that like many things in america, we have outsourced math. we know the people on wall street cannot account worth a. [laughter] >> living people verses dead people for lack of a better word you have any thoughts on that? vermette. >> [inaudible] the. >> the answer is definitely yes. you have a story that is exciting to right thing you naturally begin to imagine dramatizing it if it is that kind of thing. and it doesn't have to be a competition or a categorical choice you can only go down one road. i think any story that has human themes that are powerful and are moving can be dramatize. i think to dramatize the life of brother fired i don't know. have to read richard's book. i do know with the whitman's i do trace them back they lived in very modest homes they were a family of

of them and the american road and transportation builders association of like to express a breezy asian and the american recovery and reinvestment act included a major transportation infrastructure component. my chief executive officer and vice president of economics told the committee last october that increased transportation never structure investment from the economic stimulus package would be put to work quickly and produce meaningful benefits. today is my pleasure to report how these are being felt. states and obligated 14.7 billion zero highway funds as of june 16 this has been five 1/2 billion more than required to me obligated by the june 30 deadline. the expected outlay is expected to increase as a move into the summer and fall construction season. furthermore the value of new contract awards for highway and bridge projects outpaced the 2008 levels and for the first time this year in the month of me that is exactly what we hoped and wanted to see the state transportation agency began to award projects. let me share a few examples of how the recovery act of stimulating our econ

i have noticed some of the interior is asian and some places. -- deterioration in some places.ost: here is another view from pennsylvania on our democrats line. caller: good morning, i live in a small town in western pennsylvania and just recently retired. i have had time to look over things. i am interested in our county and hello will grow. we have been affected by the coal industry. -- and how it will grow. things have been slower, probably slower than on the national norm, but stimulus money is coming into our economy. there are construction jobs, bridge repair, and others coming in. i have been doing volunteer work with some local agencies within the county. there stimulus money is just coming in. it is just arriving in this month of june. i believe the fiscal year ends june 30. some of those payments were ju're just now receiving that wl create jobs, but will not be high-paying jobs and will not pick up everyone who is applying for them, but they will provide a stimulus to our local economy. so, i think the economy will be slow, and i also think it will take patience on t

some of the east asian allies have indicated that they are concerned about the credibility of america's deterrent force. i would like for you to give us an update on the follow on projects that you have for the ohio class and also, whether the navy intends to pursue the [unintelligible] and the replacement. >> we are in the process of doing the nuclear posture review. the discussions that are taking place are not only on the strategic weapons, but also on tlmn as well. with regard to the replacement for the ohio class, in the budget that we submitted and that is on the hill, that is the beginning of research and development for that submarine. so we have committed the funds to do that. there are some who would look and say, aren't you going early, but if you look at the developmental timeline for the ohio class and where we are starting with a replacement, we are just about in the same ballpark. we're looking with -- working with the united kingdom because they also have the need to replace their strategic deterrent. we are moving forward with that replacement. we have the money in the

the cost of the asian power to maintain the atlantic presence is extremely high. but the cost for the united states to maintain both, while high, it is not extraordinary. therefore i would argue north america became particularly with the fall of the soviet union and the end of the centrality conflict in the same way that europe had been the center of gravity for 500 years from 1482 1/3 1991 when the soviets collapsed almost exactly 500 years europe had been the. >> . now to become north america and as it happens, the united states is the dominant power from this century in north america therefore it is the center of gravity. that does not necessarily mean it is the eternal or that it is powerful by itself just means by the geographic facts the way the world works, it is in the right place. it is also an extraordinarily powerful country because it dominates a united continent, it has no continental enemies, it is not in the 100 some odd years have a domestic war to devastated to which almost differentiates us from all of the powers and therefore extremely wealthy.

we have had a successful asian program for many years directed by one person. we recently opened the south asia center. we are launching a center for other partnerships. this evening is under the international security program. there is the reality. take a look at the situation now. nato reaching out to develop partnerships with japan, australia, south korea. the u.s. and the au working together to engage china and india on global climate change. north korea, i do not have to say much about that. the development of long-range ballistic missiles impact the debate in europe. this link has been apparent since the u.s. entered wwii. we will continue to flow our boat in the pacific. so we will now have someone introduce our speaker and later moderate the q&a session. this man is a pillar of the atlantic council. he provides me and the rest of our leadership strategic advice as well as sound legal advice. i am still free and have not yet been incarcerated because of this advice. i am grateful for your service, walt. [applause] [applause] >> thank you. it is a great h

1718, this is no excuse, soon after that was passed, we found ourselves back in multilateralism ota asians with the dprk. as has been the case over the last few months, the subject of the implementation of u.n. security council resolutions, the existing ones, 1718 and the new one, is very much a subject of active consideration in our relationship, not only with the chinese but other countries in the region. you can expect that as we move forward, we are going to continue to be very concerned about implementation and other countries will be as well. >> anything you would recommend? i know you do not recommend what congress should do better any suggestions about how congress can be helpful on that narrow question of the enforcement of that resolution? >> i am never hesitant to recommend what congress should do, but i do think -- >> that is okay. for today. >> i do think that congress has a role in this and as congress expresses its views, those can hopefully be reinforcing of the positions we are taking in bilateral government to government relationships with our partners. >> and also on tha

interest in preventing further destabilization on the korean peninsula and more broadly in the northeast asianregion. we are working together on that end, and the message to north korea is that it does not benefit from taking further steps that destabilize the peninsula or the larger region. indeed, it pays a price for that action. >> ambassador, what was the reason? >> no symbolic message at all. we have more to extremely hard over the course. -- we have ward to extremely hard -- we have worked extremely hard to get to where we got to today. we're confident -- we were confident that we were going to get a unanimous vote. we had that, and with that, i was comfortable being here today. >> if there is a change in government, if iran as nuclear power, that it is not used for these purposes? >> american policy with respect to iran and its nuclear program is not dependent on which the administration is governing iran. the islamic republic of iran ought to not pursue its nuclear program, its nuclear weapons program, and that will not change, depending on the outcome of the election. the president ha

a young man we noticed in 1984 and 1985 that middle class america and asian america was not being represented, their concerns were not being dressed, and they were -- addressed. i thought back on the great leaders of this organization, from chuck robb, to dick gephardt, to bruise babbitabbit. john jones. obviously to the great chairman in 1990 and 1991. i thought about the great ag secreta secretary. the great leader in the senator joe lieberman. the honor reliable joe long. i thought about the honorable roy romer. i thought about ellen tauscher and the great senator from indiana. i thought about my dear friend and vice chairman and partner in chairing this organization, the great then governor and senator now and my immediate prepared ses -- predecessor. for we have all been a part of something very special because largely if not mainly because of the courage, determination and tenacity of a little fellow back then who is now a little fellow again whom you will see later in al from. tonight's dinner is special not only for those of us in this room but for politicians and those who have benef

on the government level, it is having the security people in the same room as the end of asian people. if they're integrated and exchanging information cut the outset. >> the government can help drive information and the sector if they offer incentives. people on the commerce committee are very interested in doing this. this could be a tax incentive. we are looking at all of those options. >> if you want to bring the market to bear, you have to have an ability to high-let them make decisions. you have to have this based on data. >> i like to take one more question. >> the government still has a lot of buying power. if we band together, we can make a market for some of this stuff. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> up next, "q&a" west douglas brinkley and then the british house of commons. following that, the election of a new speaker of the british house of commons.

mean, people in the room, in the television audience, is their self-esteem really lower to know that asians score much higher or higher than caucasians or blacks or hispanics ornate -- or spas native americans -- or native americans. there are many ways to achieve and it's inspirational to see how people achieve to try to be better. that's basically what it is, unless you're a leftist. anyway, that was the end of larry summers. the point there is that 10% of the faculty can destroy the administrative career of the most powerful, there has never been a more powerful university president in larry summers. university presidents about -- well, first of all, he came out of the clinton cabinet, he fit into the culture, he was liberal, he had been the youngest economics professor, full professor ever appoint at harvard. and he was gone in an instant basically. so any other university president is going to look at that hand say, i better not cross these people. faculty run the universities and left wing marxoid faculty, faculty that think america is a racist, sexist homophobic imperialist country d

denuclearization because if the korean peninsula is denuclearized then there is really no risk of knute werries asian but we will never be prepared to settle for a policy that on the concentrates on proliferation and ignores the root cause which is the nuclear station if north korea. >> i certainly agree with that. if we had the capacity the proliferation issue is quinn to be there. we know that, and the best way to deal with that is the policy at the peninsula being nuclear weapons. so i agree with you. i just want to underscore the point not only direct threat of north korea having weapons capacity about what it could be as a supplier to other regions and other organizations including terrorist groups. we know that there has already been smoking guns here and we just need to understand the risk factors and take the appropriate actions and i think that proceeding from the united nations security council makes a great deal of sense working with our partners to get a more effective help from the major countries in the region including china is our best chance to secure a policy to accomplish our goal

points start to come into sharper focus, it could be over the supreme court nomination, it could be asian -- it could be an important piece of legislation, there'll be some sharper edges developing and the real dynamic will start to become more clear. it has not been a clear so far. there has been -- there has not been an enormous amount of its units amenity -- >> it was really refreshing getting ready for this. i did. -- i did a reading. i believe the academic environment until after my third degree when my mother told me to get out and get a real job. i sometimes regret that. now i work in the television business where everything is day to day. i did cable for 11 years and it was hour by hour. now, twitter is minute by minute. i will be twittering that, i just want everyone to know. it is refreshing to take in the big picture here because and all the months ahead and covering president obama i have not once but the question, "will obama adopt the style of the previous administration or will he accept congress as an equal partner?" it is really just a day today. it to get started, i have

and for cleanup is dan blumenthal who's a resident fellow here in aei in asian studies. dan was the senior director in the office of secretary of defense for the office handling china, taiwan and mongolian affairs and is a long time serving member on the u.s.-china economic and security commission. since we only have about an hour, i've asked our panelists to speak for about eight minutes, which should leave us plenty of time for follow-up questions and discussion. but again, as danny said when we do turn to questions, please identify yourself and try to make it a question. so if that is an introduction, susan, you're up. >> good morning. i'm pleased to be here with a distinguished panel and certainly with the american enterprise institute, a private sector perspective on defense and security cooperation. having just returned from india this past weekend i can attest to the growing importance of u.s.-india discussions with respect to indian industry and an indian industry both including the public sector undertakings the psus as well as the enterprise to deal with the mu

problems that are neither black nor white or latino or asian, but rather problems that confront us all. >> and this is one of many what you call pivot moments in the campaign. explain. guest: well, people were obviously paying attention, seeing how le responded. but here's a guy who actually wants to be a game changer. he wants to change the way politics are played. the reason i take renegade as the title of the book is not because it's a seek red code name, but because there is something deeply unconventional about the guy, be how he wants to break the rules of politics, touching race in this way was adashese, deeply risky. look how he responded to that and how mitt romney responded to the questions about his mormon faith. this was a really head on attempt to address a loot of those issues and explain it in a pretty nuanced way. there wasn't a whole lot of sound bites on that speech. and it was tough to pull out something. so the unconventional piece of it was important. that doesn't explain everything about him because there was something deeply disciplined and conventional about him

and the best thing that i can do for the african-american community or latino community, asian community, whatever community, is to get the economy as a whole moving. hold on one second. let me answer your question. if i don't do that, then i'm not going to be able to help anybody. that's priority number one. it is true that in certain inner city communities, the unemployment rate was already sky high even before this recession. the ladders available for people to enter into the job market are even worse. and so we are interested in looking at proven programs that help people on a pathway to jobs. there is a reason why right before father's day, i went to a program here locally that is called europe, which has a proven track record of taking young, mostly minority people, some of whom have graduated from high school, some of whom may have just gotten their g.e.d. and trained them on computers and provide them with other technical skills, but also train them on how to carry themselves in an office, how to write an e-mail, some of the social skills that will allow them to be more employabl