thank you. >> thank you, arvind. claude? 2 it's good that india is joining the human race.i think my colleagues know a lot more about india than ideal. and if they were really talking about doha so i did three things in my eight to 10 minutes. one, i would like to pick up on some of the themes that susan and arvind panagariya talk about about the trade policy of the obama administration and tie that to something we haven't talked about and that is the united states india regionalism and end up with questions about india's ability to participate either the fda or the regional agreement. so let me start with the trade policy of the obama administration anti-finally to india, but not sort of specifically at the beginning. in an earlier session we had on trade policy here, i mentioned that a colleague of mine at the kennedy school first couple of months of the obama administration, i think this is true today, are still today described mr. obama or the obama administration, the president as a passive free trader and his point was that the president was willing to intervene again

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 think that direct country with growth change in terms of developing country? thank you. >> yeah, this is a long and complicated question. i mean, that lot of the damage to the environment that we see today was due to the, due to the emissions done by the developed countries. that's your question, right? yeah. yeah, meaning the people that have written on climate change and india, i go through this. this is as to who should pay for it, and there is a parallel in the u.s. law, of course, that, you know, when the superfund was created precisely to collect actually taxes from the companies that had been, that had been actually the responsible parties to the love canal and other sites. and if you go by that kind of past, you know, u.s. tradition you would argue that the developed countries really ought to pa

arvind panagariya, professor of indian political economy at columbia university. as well as a nonresident senior fellow working institution. 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