so to build those alliances we have to have a coherent message.o why should these countries work with us? what is it we are trying to accomplish and why do what we these countries to work with us? i think the coherent message has got to build around the notion that defense minister from the uk, gavin williamson. . because the other thing that those countries have in common is that they are all autocratic, they don't have much political or economic freedom. we offer greater freedom. so i think we have to develop that message and say we will give you freedom and protect you from autocrats who don't want to give you that freedom. so we have got to have a message and we got to have allies and we have to got to understand that we can do it on her own. >> perfectly brief, thank you very much. >> thank you gordon, it's terrific to be here at the reagan library to have a discussion about the role of alliances and the importance of building new partnerships. because you know, we are very familiar with the president's dictum of peace through strength. he re

here, alliance's got think about the successful alliances we've seen. it's a bottom-up approach. it's all well and good for heads of government and foreign haveters to sit around and these grand strategic discussions with each other. the best way to get there is at the service level. it's working together. i think you find these things bubble up. on things like integration interoperability, my colleague mentioned. we are doing a lot of that. int are those niche things the alliances, particularly at the trilateral level? what are the things where we can get our services to work? in american domain, things like a common platform that everyone is now using. secret, my colleagues have a lot of discussions about, where is india at? most important way, what's in it for india to come on board? -- of the problems you have the interoperability peas. india traditionally has a mixed bag about where their weapon systems come from. russia has been a significant exporter of military elements and systems to india. that's naturally a problem at that tactical level for integration. gratified -- i

that's been behind the success with the alliance. keep going. there is talk of the alliance becoming a merger. where is the truth lie? we think this company is going to go next? we believe the alliance, if they can keep it together, should stay together because of the success they've had in keeping the business going. if anything, with the challenges facing the industry, particularly this year, it would help to have the alliance. we are going to see more partnerships of anything industry. if they can keep it together, that would be stronger than them. i want to ask about that because now seems the time the car companies to look at alliances and allegiances. times are tough out there. talking through what the car industry is going through. absolutely, you have a lot of uncertainty around trade relationships. the us the eu and china. you might be a european company but if you are producing in the us, the trade war will affect you. they've got those challenges, wea ker sales, you. they've got those challenges, weaker sales, increased re

alliance commitment. we will talk more about the quad , and nobody thinks that china is pulling back on their activity in cyberspace. we will talk more about the code of conduct in china in the south sea with the discussions that are going on. so it looks like that the closer that the u.s. and japan defense ties is first. nick, why don't you leaders are. is that the right choice? >> absolutely. i think it reflects a lot of development in security cooperation between that u.s. and japan in the recent months. just getting to the question and the boon to the security in the indo pacific, there's a lot of discussion in washington and tokyo about what free and open indo pacific means. and whether or not the u.s. and japan aligned in terms of that strategy, and we can debate that going forward. i think fundamentally that concept is a framework that will facilitate more defense cooperation between the u.s. and japan and other like-minded countries and partners in the region. as i mentioned earlier, japan had the

level of the us there are three possibilities for the future of the alliance there's the status quo but that seems difficult to envision today they might go further into the alliance with an outright merger or takeover of one of the two companies all will see a rebalancing but today who can say what will happen perhaps we have reached the limits of this alliance as it was conceived at the beginning that. for now carlos gone is out at both japanese automakers he is still chief executive of were no. financial correspondent only ballots where the renault know something about it. i don't know i don't know what renault knows but hanging on to carlos going at least as the figurehead c o there's an interim chief was actually in paris running the company has deputy up until now its name is chile but all he was relatively fresh and that and the task but. of course renault believes that carlos gone is not as guilty as the people in japan feel that he is but i think it's doubtful that he'll ever return to leadership for no one at the alliance. and it's a bishop he's out already anyways because the

do you see a historic opportunity where these alliances could lead to a peace that nobody could even have been thinking about ten years ago? >> sean, undoubtedly. we have set the conditions in the middle east where these countries are now working together across multiple fronts. you saw the president's announcement with our withdrawal from syria. we are still going to be able to effectively with those partners counter the threat from isis in the region. we will do it without those 2000 soldiers on the grown. we haven't changed our policy about continuing to make sure there is no isis resurgence. we are going to do it in a way that's smarter and better. we can do that because of the alliances that president trump has built. >> sean: let's talk about china in the sense that they have had a massive military buildup. your state department issued a warning to americans traveling to china that, in fact, they could issue exit bans preventing americans from leaving. what's the status? >> sean, we didn't change the level of the warning there in china. we did change some of the language. we do

the initial 500,000 was spent on a prior agreement with the parks alliance. they awarded a new agreement to the competitive process in august and it is our understanding with the 787,000 the initial agreement will be for 400,000, milestones and deliverables that they will have to meet and once those are met, the 787,000 may be allocated to that agreement. we do recommend approval of this release. >> all right. i appreciate that recommendation we will go to public comment. >> thank you for your presentation. public comment is open for item three. >> let me just say first, she is one of my greatest allies and has been for years. that has nothing to do with her. i am trying to find out what the hell is going on here in my community. the plaza was one of the black director's in the redevelopment. i don't know if you all know that. and those three individuals that stood up that you all say he is overseeing things going on in my community, i have not heard one damn thing. we don't know about that. i will let them know that the rest of the community disapproves of i

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alliance commitments the philippines and south korea. greg has co-authored a terrific piece with eric sayers from this issue which i command here. what do you think of the prospects from your perspective? >> this was my choice. largely because of the negative consequences. if we don't do this on both sides the consequences are far worse and on the other retro. likelier thanis not that we see an affirmation n the details. i think the u.s. is not going to recognize european sovereignty wer the nine features -- will see with echoes but i think it is likely we reaffirm the position that william1998 -- ane armed forces public vessels or includes the south china sea. if that does not happen there are only does the possibilities. the philippines decides the treaty does them no good and i cannot reiterate this enough, i think they are dead serious. it will not cost as much as the u.s. thinks it's will. counterterror, etc., none of that requires -- we do that all of that with indonesia. the only thing philippines kids special is a guaranteed agai

-philippine alliance. and that kind of verbiage has gotten old for the philippines they understandably want to know what will happen if they a real he is ka la tray kind of conflict with china, what would the united do.es scarborough is not a particularly reassuring episode u.s.-philippine alliance. o i think what he may be up to is really just trying to force a conversation that, again, revious administrations have managed to avoid to get more of sense of whatblic u.s. -- how far the u.s. really go in a potential conflict. and frankly, i think it would be trump ely easy for the administration to come up with a of ula of clarification obligations that might just sort of settle this whole thing quickly. so we'll see. dilemma so, amy, the the president by imself because they may convince the secretary of defense to give him more security commitment, something to closer to what we japan, successive administrations have set article 5 would apply in any scenario involving the force against japan. have never bee

alliances in asia in that context. whether the current focus on asia leads to less attention to the middle east or a renewed focus on u.s. forward presence around the world to maintain a stable international order, is probably an open question, but i think this focus on asia is not necessarily just regional. i think it has potential to open up larger questions about the u.s. role in the world, and our allies and partners in asia. talk as much about that as day do about what's going on in the region. >> greg, couple of questions for you. >> yeah, on the code of conduct, i -- i don't see any evidence that any side, china or particularly vietnam, but also to a degree the other compla complainants are willing to concede. that would require a change if strategy among a lot of the parties. the only way that beijing is going to decide to clarify the scope of its historic rights to make the concessions that would be required to actually reach a fair deal is going to if there's an awful lot of international pressure that convin

is essential to the sense of the middle east region alliance which we hope will include the g.c.c. egypt and jordan it was a rich short his hose that they withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria will not jeopardize america's efforts against their own battle continues our presence to signal to withdraw our folks from syria in no way impacts our capacity to deliver on that and you'll see the coming days and weeks we are redoubling not only our diplomatic but our commercial efforts to put real pressure on iran to achieve what it is we set out for them back in may and these are simple asks we ask of the islamic republic of iraq to behave like a normal nation and the coalition is just as committed to it today as it was yesterday. all right let's bring in our guests nala joining me here on set is three professor of political science at kota university from norman in oklahoma via skype we have joshua landis director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma gentlemen thank you very much indeed for joining us george if i could start with you there in oklahoma and let

occludes alliance which is called the alliance to end plastic weights state includes chevron phillips chemical company dow chemical exxon mobil for most aplastic corp procter and gamble reliance industries and shell among other or oil chemical as well as waste management companies now they pledged a billion dollars and what they're saying is hey more companies come join the alliance we want to boost that pledge up to one point five billion u.s. dollars to save the world from all those plastic that's absolutely everywhere there is seems that one of their focuses if you go on their website is cleaning up the oceans which we know is a huge story and i'm sure you've all seen pictures of what's happening in rivers and oceans etc absolutely awful so this pledge i mean it seems like a wonderful thing and suggest put a billion dollars it isn't that great these companies are fantastic aren't they their part. absolutely i've seen you know we're just throwing some of the roll there of plastic on the beaches and i denisov places it is really bad and kill and fish and just horrible for the environ

/philippine alliance. that kind of verbage has gotten on the for the philippines because they understandably want to know what will happen if they are caught in a real escalatory kind of conflict with china. what would the united states do? scarborough shoal is not a particularly reassuring episode in the u.s./philippine alliance. so i think what he may be up to is really just trying to force the conversation that, again, previous administrations have managed to avoid to get more of a clearer and public sense of what u.s. -- how far the u.s. really will go in a potential conflict. and frankly, i think it would be relatively easy for the trump administration to come up with a formula, a clarification of obligations that might just sort of settle this whole thing rather quickly. so we'll see. >> so amy, the dilemma is complicated by duterte himself. first of all, because the new secretary of defense may be convinced to give a more explicit security commitment, something closer to what we've done with japan o

so the state of the alliance is a okay. maybe among the policy people, even better during the obama administration. that's the exception. no one thinks that way around the world. but japan does. d-lines is in a better state than during in the obama administration. but, you know, this alliance doesn't exist in a vacuum. it only functions when u.s. is fully committed to the region. and went u.s. has an east asia policy. which you don't quite see. so yes, the alliance is okay. but it doesn't exist in a vacuum. so not extremely, you know, comfortable or optimistic about, you know, how can you know, alliance would kick in when it needs to function, to deal with the situation. you know, your election is coming up. japan is known to be the 51st, you know, state. it may be the most reddest state among the 51 states. i'm joking a bit. but you know, this time around, there's a high probability that it may flip, right? and the new and incoming democrats are not totally new but many of them are so new and we don't have the connection t

let me have that and yes there are three possibilities for the future of the alliance there's the status quo but that seems difficult to envision today they might go further into the alliance with an outright merger or takeover of one of the two companies all will see a rebalancing but today who can say what will happen perhaps we have reached the limits of this alliance as it was conceived at the beginning that. now carlos gone is out at both japanese automakers he is still chief executive of one no. corporate news now and in an ever changing leadership position amazon has now surpassed microsoft as the most valuable publicly traded company in the u.s. it's a further sign that a seesaw stock market continues to reshuffle corporate america picking or. really let loose volatility on global equity markets has seen technology and internet stocks jockeying for leadership for weeks now but shares in e-commerce behemoths amazon jumped three point four percent on monday on data favorable to retailers that pushed it ahead of microsoft by market capitalization so amazon is now the world's largest

this is the most successful military alliance. it is an interdependency that stood as a sturdy, strong and sound anchor for peace that has prevented new world wars, fossterd western prosperity and advanced democratic governance. the united states is to lead and finance the defense of other nations which has allowed them to develop and prosper economically and expand and evolve. yet, at the same time, moscow never went to war with a nato partner. we got bases and a guarantee that we would not have to fight alone. europe became our largest investment partner and chief and military companion and everyone has peace and stability to strengthen their democracies. we can continue to put pressure on our nato partners to pay their 2% of their g.d.p. but doesn't mean we want to get out of nato. in fact, doing such, would be a historic mistake. nato is not, is not a transactional relationship. our sole focus can't be on who pays and who gets what. being a part of nato is not being like part of a country club. we value our nato partners. and

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. >> good morning you wrote blac alliance of 1960s. that is a potent title. let's a jump in as an academic you have a lot of freedom to choose what you write about and the content that you put into something. let's start from the beginning and ask you how did you arrive to this particular topic? >> it's a somewhat embarrassing story. from my very first week at cal berkeley as a freshman i was raised in los angeles the suburbs of the 1970s. there i learned about jewish social justice what we now call to repair and heal the world. we learned about dr. king and the civil rights movement. i was so excited to arrive at berkeley. my first stop was the table for the jewish student union. all jewish kids were supposed to do. the second stop was the black student union table. i walked up and introduced myself and i said let's start a black jewish dialogue. my african-american colleague burst out laughing. he kept laughing until he saw the horrified look on my face and realizing that i did not quite get with the picture. i guess to sort of calm the moment he said, i'm

levy of the us there are three possibilities for the future of the alliance there's the status quo but that seems difficult to envision today they might go further into the alliance with an outright merger or takeover of one of the two companies all will see a rebalancing but today who can say what will happen perhaps we have reached the limits of this alliance as it was conceived at the beginning that. for now carlos gone is out at both japanese automakers he is still chief executive of were no. more on the story let's bring in our financial correspondent will be tracking this from frank only tell us more about renault and go on and please do tell us if renault know something we don't know about. i don't know i don't know what reno knows but hanging on to carlos going at least as the figurehead c o there's an interim chief was actually in paris running the company has no deputy up until now its name is chilly but all he was relatively fresh and that and that task but. of course for no believes that carlos gone is not as guilty as the people in japan feel that he is but i think it's do

and yes there are three possibilities for the future of the alliance there's the status quo but that seems difficult to envision today they might go further into the alliance with an outright merger or takeover of one of the two companies all will see a rebalancing but today who can say what will happen perhaps we have reached the limits of this alliance as it was conceived at the beginning that. for now carlos gone is out at both japanese automakers he is still chief executive of where no. michael penn works for the shin gets a news agency in tokyo and was at the press conference held by guns lawyers following the core proceedings michael what's god had to say for himself. well he was only given about ten minutes to say anything for himself and that was done in the court itself so as your report said not in public to direct the journalist sort of the oral but what he said was to say that what he did it acted on really legally and done nothing wrong and that he was looking forward to proving this to the court and to the world sensually of the entire case against him one fall flat or

of the concentric patrick ism alliance is headed by seventy five year old child. originally from mainland china chao hosts of both hong kong and taiwanese identity cards. in this video he's in central taiwan marking the anniversary of the founding of the chinese communist party. but chow was not always a believer. in one thousand nine hundred eighty four he wrote a letter to the then british prime minister margaret thatcher objecting to hong kong being handed back to china his letter began it is known to all that communist rule is characterized by suppression that leads only to bloodshed deprivation and dire poverty clearly chow has since had a change of heart but are chinese authorities funding his political activities here's what jang syria co-founder and manager of the concentric patriotism alliance has to say only. you know. that i handwritten. and. then you and he and you've written to. them he. added the one. hundred. thirty. in the room. at the offices of the taiwanese government spokesperson says more can be done to regulate all political groups. but even

on this. >> the polling on the alliance and u.s. president's including both -- but the other factor here, i would think -- i'm sorry. polling on the u.s. alliance is quite strong in both -- but the other factor would be if you did have proposal to pull troops out of korea, then that u.s. japan would also be in bigger trouble. amy, you got second place with the philippines. >> yeah. so i think it's about right. although i myself have put taiwan ahead of the philippines. there's been concern about the alliance in 2016 and duterte, but and duterte has made clear that he is less favorable towards the u.s. allies. talked about a separation from the united states. he called into question the value of the mutual defense treaty that we've long had with the philippines. pointing to the instance where the philippines lost control over scarbrough and the united states intervened to prevent that or reversed that outcome. so duterte has, you know, been putting a strain on the relationship. having said that, the philippines government has managed

are okay, alliance, and the u.s. japan alliance are a little bit strained, and it would be better to try to help alleviate that strain. >> thanks. >> thank you sheila, and matt. robin white, retiring -- retired foreign service. this is a micra question, you see a certain amount of foreign criticism of what might be called the rule of law in japan, strictly, preindictment, detention, no lawyers, very high prosecution, great. but, of the japanese concern about this at all what do they see this as a problem? until one of them gets arrested, i guess? >> so yeah, we are watching, we are watching them -- nissan, suffer somewhat. so, i guess, this is not something that i am an expert on robin, so i do not want to speak beyond what i feel comfortable, you're talking about, i'm sure there are plenty of people in japan who are, and have been for decades and decades, advocating more on the side of victims rights, right, access to those detained, who are japanese japanese citizens right, not just foreign citizens, and i do belie

what i would call alliance supporters, and sovereignty supporters, national sovereignty. so that's the reason why in general, us policies are more consistent with the conservative group. now, that's not to say that moon, president moon or he is following the extreme side, but there are clearly elements within the blue house who would like, you know, to have a true reconciliation with north korea. they feel they need much more complete self-determination. >> question here. >> this question is about the us/trying to trade war. there's only less than 30 some days for the two sides to make a deal. it looks like promising in beijing today. i question is, would japan or south korea benefit from this trade war or what is the position of these two relations, these two relations with america or china? thank you. do you see any real chance that the trade war will begin for march 1? thank you. >> i think the pressure on both sides, on xi jinping and on trump's to get some kind of deal, which will probably have an element of mutually agreed- upon market access, a lot of that has been

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alliance. the event was cosponsored in washington for international peace in the japan american society. it is just over an hour. [inaudible] >> good morning, everybody. welcome to the international peace. my name is jim shope and i'm a senior fellow at the age program. around the japan program and is my pleasure to welcome you out of the cold and into a warm place for what is our annual collaboration with the japan american society of washington, d.c. this is japan this year. japan in 2019. this is the sixth time that we have cohosted this event with ja' jsa w. i was looking for to this event because it forces me to get back in touch with what is going on in japan and what are the various prospects across economics, politics, foreign policies and get a chance to work with some really quality journalists and scholars from around the country. this is of course a particularly interesting year in the sense that this is the in of the heisei era. in japan in 2019. so that gives us a little extra his

-rok alliance and the u.s.-japan alliance is under a little bit of strain and would help to alleviate that strain. >> thanks. >> thank you, sheila and matt. robin white, picard foreign service. this is a micro-question. you see certain amount of foreign criticism of what might be called the rule of law in japan, particularly pre indictment, detention, no lawyers, very high prosecution rate. are the japanese concerned about this at all? do they see this as a problem until one of them gets arrested, i guess? >> so, yeah, we're watching-- we're watching the ceo at nissan suffer somewhat. so i guess this is not something that i'm an expert on, robin, so i don't want to speak beyond what i feel comfortable talking about. i'm sure there are plenty of people in japan who are and have been for decades and decades advocating more on the side of victims' rights. access to those who are citizens not just foreign citizens. and i believe with the new jury system there has been a lot of judicial reforms that have changed som

/japan alliance is playing. indian navy would never come to east china sea and deal with the situation that might arise. there's also this theory that japan -- even japan is hedging. look at prime minister abe going to china. probably xi jinping is going to visit japan sometime this spring or maybe a bit later. but i don't buy that argument because, you know, japan/china relations, prc relations in the past ten years was really bad. like minus ten. so this effort is just bringing up to minus one or zero. so i don't think you should trait it as japan hedging because even japan can't trust the u.s. we took sides. i think that's the correct depiction. with rok, it's extremely difficult. we used to call our relations with -- or how we see south korea as being we're two tired. korean fatigue was the key word in trying to explain how we approached south korea. but now some of my colleagues, who are not like the typical anti-korean types would say distrust. they don't want to talk about it. there's no use. so that kind

of the alliance, the global u charge of the alliance, the global cargroup in that charge of the allianceat includes renault, nissan and within that, feathers have been ruffled and it is a there. he will need to bring the companies together. they have strong links between them. three car companies that effectively act as one. he will need to make sure that at a management level it can operate smoothly. it will not be easy. the us national security adviser has said that trump administration is trying to block access to cash for the venezuelan president. the venezuelan president was angry after washington recognised the opposition leader as president. russia, washington recognised the opposition leaderas president. russia, on washington recognised the opposition leader as president. russia, on the other hand has condemned foreign powers. it has been a day where all sides are trying to get more allegiances and mr maduro did get strong support not just allegiances and mr maduro did get strong support notjust from russia, as you mentioned, but also from china. also with the same line that ther

role in the strategic alliance with the end stoltenberg, secretary general of the north atlantic treaty organization. it all right now on on "fox news sunday" ." hello again from washington. and the clock is reset and the battle over the border wall, federal workers will soon be returning to the job, but their paychecks could be in jeopardy once again if congress cannot strike a deal by february the 15th when the stock spending measure, does not include$5.7 m. president trump wants for his proposed wall or at least some percentage of that. he has threatened to let the government shut down again or declare a national emergency to bypass congress. joining me not to talk more about this is the president's acting chief of staff mick mulvaney. welcome back to fox news sunday, thanks for taking the time. i know you got back to south carolina to see your family for the first time since new years. >> think so much for having me as always. >> that the president gave the democrats? a lot of democrats think that he capitulated here because he really came away from 35 days of a government shutdown