policy in the asia-pacific region.peaking at georgetown university, she also talked about negotiations with iran over its nuclear program. his is 45 minutes. [applause] >> good afternoon, everyone. thank you so much, professor growth. thank you for all of your exceptional work to advance american policy towards asia. from your time on the nsc staff to your current contributions as director of the asia studies program at the school of foreign service. let me just begin by apologizing a little bit if i sound a little it hoarse. i will do my best to sustain my voice through the course of what is not a short speech, and with luck i will get there. but forgive me in advance. i also want to thank the president and my former colleague, dean caster, for their contributions, along with professor shaw and professor grove, to make it possible for me to speak here today. the most important, for georgetown's unrivaled success in preparing america's future leaders, particularly some any of our policymakers. president obama is deeply

in asia and beyond. we both seek the denuclearization of the korean peninsula, a peaceful resolution to the iranian nuclear crisis, a stable and secure afghanistan and in end to conflict in the sudan. there are opportunities for us to take concerted action to bolster peace and development in places like sub-saharan africa where sustainable growth will deliver everlasting benefit to the people of africa as well as both of our countries. we are improving the quality of our military-to-military relationship with china as we enhance our strategic security dialogs and cooperate on issues like countering piracy and maritime security. greater military engagement and transparency can help us manage realities of mistrust and competition while augmenting the high-level communication that has been a hallmark of this administration's approach to china. as we diversify the ways in which we do business, with china , we will continue to champion respect for the rule of law, human rights, religious freedom and democrati

can -- how asia and latin america can work together to benefit each because asia's also a fast-growing region. >> no question. and i think there's a lot of areas where we can learn from each other. take the case of transportation logistics. this is the one area where we have huge costs, which in essence become taxes to our exporters because of the heavy costs of transportation. that means that we have to do massive investments in infrastructure. ports, airplane airports, roads. rehabilitating the river systems. using rail the way asia has done. japan is a great example of that. we're actually here in a major business summit where we want to bring midsized companies from latin america to trade with those of japan and find ways to connect those possibilities. the other area, of course, around this, is how do we continue to massively invest in this regard coupled with the fact that we need to do more in innovation. that's a big lesson that we need to get from asia. on the other hand, if you look at asia toward latin america, we've done a lot in moving people out of poverty. millions of pe

asia. a few months later, saddam hussein invaded kuwait. we liberated kuwait. then the navy and air force got tied down in a no-fly zone over iraq over the next 12 years. then 9/11, then afghanistan, then iraq. headingre out of iraq, out of afghanistan, back to asia. so it is a natural, organic it is also an aspiration rather than a declaration. it aspires to put more emphasis on an area, but it only aspires east so, if the middle allows, and the middle east does not always allow. little bit about what is going on in asia from an historical perspective. in past decades, in the 1960s, 1970s, 1950s, many asian states were in internal turmoil. china had the great leap forward, the proletariat culture, internally focused. malaya, which became malaysia, and vietnam, were involved in internal wars. japan was in a quasi-pacifistic state as a aftershock after the militarism of world war ii. on lines was focusing in the bluewater about who controls what, because nobody could project power out words

, we need to a more attention to that asia-pacific. it is a region that will affect prosperity and security long- term. that does not mean we take our eye off the ball in the middle east. it does not mean we abandon our partners and allies there. u.s. has been able to walk and chew gum at the same time. we have vital interest in the middle east even as our own energy fixtures at home changes. we have to maintain our forces there for deterrence, crisis response, building capacity of our partners and friends. the rebalance is never cast as a pivotal way away from middle east to asia. it was a relative increase in our attention to asia and to the fundamental changes that are half thing there and adapting our posture to those changes while we still stay engaged in a key region like the middle east. iraq asy we came out of we are reducing our posture in afghanistan, the number of ground forces will be changing. our air and naval presence ari to those keyments countries and should not and i they will change my expectation. what are the confl

of these hard and fast divisions between the middle east, south asia, southeast asia, east asia. there is a collapse. there is a fluid organic continuum exemplified with new pipeline routes, highways that are connecting south asia with east asia. you see china more involved in afghanistan and iran in terms of mineral exploitation, buying more hydrocarbons. you see more heart -- hydrocarbons flow from the persian gulf to east asia. the connections between regions is becoming -- is increasing little by little. because it is a gradual development, it does not make a news story. the indian ocean is the maritime organizing principle of this. you cannot deal with the middle east unless you understand russia and vladimir putin. you cannot deal with energy and asia unless you understand the persian gulf. the fact that china and india are going to need more of their hydrocarbon resources from the persian gulf while the u.s. may need less and less. there is less of a distinction. in the extreme cases of getting involved in a land war somewhere or setting a bad example that leads people els

rebalancing within asia are being concentrated in the northeast is covering through the southeast asia. it is things like agreed access agreements. use of joint facilities, planned bilateral and multilateral exercise increasing the tempo of our interaction, our partner capacity building and so forth. the only measure should not be permanent basis. it's really the work that we're doing and the rotational base of forces that are, you know, passing through a region bolstering deterrence, reassuring allies and so forth. >> we have about ten minute left. what i'm going do is take the next -- get everybody in i have groups of questions. let me hear from gourden adams. thank you. i think a fundamental one is increasingly curious about the budgets in planning and planning in budgets. i'm wondering if where with are is taking both of these fully no to account in a context of a new world. what, i mean, is specifically to what we've been talking about. whether a safer -- i would like phil to talk about a safer and more secure wonder for the united states that he describes is consistent with what

they come mainly from the caucuses and central asia. a few days earlier, a young muscovite had been stabbed to death in broad daylight. there were reports that a man from the caucuses was to blame. there were rumors that he was hiding at the market. the police were slow to stop the rioters. the next day, they arrested about 1000 migrants to prevent further violence, the authority said. she says that is always the way. she says the government encourages migrants. it recently came up with an immigration policy. in black-and-white it said, russia needs labor migrants. the birthrate is catastrophically low. they need plenty of manpower in the future. i am surprised that russia has gone so long without a clear immigration policy. immigrants from the former social repot -- soviet republics in central asia can come without a visa and stayed for three months. many stay longer and work illegally at their own risk or because their employer bribes the authorities. used toworkers are having no rights. authorities say there are more than 3.5 undocum

those are principally about middle east and east asia.so then you want to work hard on those regions. we are kind of going sort of country by country and island by island. what i can say is what you look at is due to people in the region want your help? do they think it is in their interest to have powerful highly capable forces nearby in order to provide them with the measure of security they think they need in partnership with you? if the answer to that is yes, opportunities begin to arise for all kinds of discussions that can then evolve over time and different configurations in different ways. again, the united states is not going to be helping to provide additional security in regions where no one wants america's health. but i don't think that that's the case for the two reasons i've mentioned. now the second part of your question actually has very much to do with the concept of what does it mean when you talk about the defense slowed? i think the dominant problem, the dominant issues in this phase of history are increasingly transna

the middle east or east asia?we need to be formable sea and air that can deter and defeat rapidly any potential opponent largely with forces on hand or available within hours. small fraction are to be meet the readiness requirement either in the navy or air force in the middle east and east asia. from a larger or smaller overall force structure. for example when japan was cob templating the war plans in 1941 they looked around and said if we wanted war against the american british alliance. we need to hit three spots. knock out those three and you have knocked out effective military operation in the asia-pacific region. now pearl harbor was a stretch. they pulled it off. you can see when you narrow it down to that. when you are basing infrastructure and overseas presence is remarkably slender concentrated on one or two key assets. that's actually not a stable position for a conflict in which maximum readiness is ever more at the premium. >> okay. yeah. great. put your name tag side way. i guess i'll start other he

and central asia. it would also be of interest to the u.s. and its fight against terrorism on the insurgency, and drug trafficking as barbara said. let me explain briefly what this report is about. one thing i need to mention is that the only country in south asia with territorial dispute is iran. between pakistan and india or anything like the territorial dispute between afghanistan and pakistan. there is a similar dispute between their south asian neighbors. this difference and dispute over water. no differences over land. iran-pakistan relation has always been cordele -- cordial and friendly, with full military and financial support to pakistan during its three wars with india, and iran was the first country to recognize pakistan in 1947. the relation has been very close and friendly, and full support to pakistan against india. one major reason was as you can guess, the fact that india and pakistan belong to different camps. pakistan are u.s. allies, and iran a very close ally of the united states i

pivoting to asia would be wonderful, but i don't think the middle east will be willing to accommodate. i think there are potential roles on a steady state basis for nato or nato members, and certainly also in crises, which i think unfortunately will demand nato's attention. second, i think russia looms, at least as importantly, and i think here nato has to think about a hedge against russian futures. and the russian future that i worry most about is a declining russia, and this is in part due to the shale gas revolution, which is dropping the price of energy, which i think in essence is going to bankrupt russia's state business model. and then there's also some very daunting demographic factors that are going to, i think, really create some new challenges for russia. and i worry about a russian leader trying to distract a very restive and unhappy domestic population by launching some sort of coercion or aggression in the area. so that's sort of the russia that i worry about, and there's things that can be deterred in those scenarios. third, i think, perhaps the third nato mission is p

and the balkans and central asia in the caucasus region which is an exceptionally important part of the global chessboard as being new brzezinski talks about and in fact in his one thousand nine hundred seven book the grand chessboard he identified central asia as the absolute key for anyone who wants to have world dominance in this day and age needs to control central asia and that's where we find a lot of these operations now are being based with u.s. and nato officials cooperating with islamic terrorists in order to foment a type of destabilization that is aimed ultimately against rivals russia and china right very fascinating and i remember in the video series you're talking about right before nine eleven i think one thousand nine hundred seventy two thousand and one i mean we're talking about al-zawahiri alleged top al-qaeda officials being flown out fostered by nato propagated by nato and also the cia and covert forces in the area you said that this is actually going on still to this day what are they doing and explain really how this manifested into perpetuating what we're se

and the balkans and central asia in the caucasus region which is an exceptionally important part of the global chessboard as has been your brzezinski talks about and in fact in his one thousand nine hundred seven book the grand chessboard he identified central asia as the absolute key for anyone who wants to have world dominance in this day and age needs to control central asia and that's where we find a lot of these operations now are being based with u.s. and nato officials cooperating with islamic terrorists in order to foment a type of destabilization that is aimed ultimately against rivals russia and china right very fascinating and i remember in the video series you're talking about right before nine eleven i think ninety ninety seven to two thousand and one i mean we're talking about al-zawahiri alleged top al-qaeda officials being flown out fostered by nato propagated by nato and also the cia and covert forces in the area you said that this is actually going on still to this day what are they doing and explain really how this manifested into propecia. and what we're seeing p

president barack obama will visit asia in april of next year. national security adviser susan rice said the u.s. remains committed to rebalancing its security and economic priorities to the asia pacific region. >> to address emerging challenges as effectively as we deter conventional threats, we're urging our allies and partners to take greater responsibility for defending our common interests and values. >> rice expressed hope for japan's goal to launch a national security council that would oversee the country's foreign and security policies. rice mentioned china's increased maritime presence and said the u.s. is ready to help countries in the region communicate better to prevent contingencies. she called on all parties in the region to resolve issues based on the rule of law rather than through threats or aggressive actions. obama was forced to cancel his trip to southeast asia in october due to the partial government shutdown. a u.s. official told nhk the administration is now planning obama's trip but didn't specify which countries he would

elephants on the edge of extinction--two stories from asia, coming up on "earth focus." beneath the canopy of indonesia's rainforest, life comes together to produce an amazing symphony of wild sounds. [whistling] [low growl] [roaring] [chirping] [bellowing] but now, the rainforest's most booming voice is increasingly hard to find. [deep trumpet] the sumatran elephant teeters on the edge of extinction, and there's no one else to blame but ourselves. [loud buzzing] it's here in grocery stores where the fate of indonesian elephants begins. you may have never heard of it, but palm oil, a common vegetable oil, has been a growing presence on supermarket shelves since the 1990s. it's high yield, versatility, and price make it an exceptional competitor against alternative vegetable oils. today, palm oil and its derivatives are present in 50% of all packaged food. products like bread, cookies, chocolate, chips, and even shower soap. the consumer benefits, but the sumatran elephants pay a price. their habitat is cleared by legal and illegal loggers to make room for palm oil planta

what does it come mainly from the caucasus and central asia . few days in the most divine to queenstown to death in broad day. there were reports a man who look like he was from the caucasus was to blame. there were rumors he was hiding at the markets the police was slow to stop the riots is. boston extinct and rested it on two thousand migrants to prevent the divine and steal our consent. irina says that's always the way . the she says the government in coming to migrants. he recently came up with integration policy in black and white it said russia needs to make the migrants. in this country the birthrate is catastrophic you know she sends me plenty of manpower in the future that's it. the listing is i'm surprise that rush has gone so long without a clear immigration policy immigrants from the former soviet republics in central asia can come to russia without a visa and stay for three months. but many stayed longer and was keenly getting at ten hundred sq four because their employer grinds you authorities. mikey but does it use to having them

migrants from central asia are thought to be hiding here. they are a source of cheap labor, often without valid papers. hello, why are you living here, he is asking. we are from the militia, keep your documents ready and wait for the police. >> they do this week after week. residents tipped them off as to where migrants could be living. many think immigrants are a problem for moscow. language]foreign my papers are in order, this man tells me. he has mistaken me for member of the militia. i asked him where he is from. is pakistan, he says. you came in from work, yes, he says. in moscow, there are jobs. at home, it is difficult. now, he is desperate. the police have been called, and that means the man from his pakistan will probably be deported. nothing to do with nationalism, he says, but about different civilizations. central asia and is a region were fundamentally event roles apply banyan must -- fundamentally different rules apply than in moscow and did not make an effort. remainingt the last independent russian polling organization shows

the current situation in northeast asia and then i didn't need. in other news after months of stalled talks the two koreas finally came together on friday to resume its sub panel talks on transit communications and customs and the korean interrupt the inter korean prison industrial complex the two sides agreed to begin construction of an electronic transit system that will control the passage of businessmen in and out of the invesco parking consult they also great to paint a canvas of panel talks to discuss other sensitive issues including internet and military coming patients connection. earlier this week to run on agreed with world powers to limit its nuclear program for slight reprieve from economic and n sanctions that it's while the deal has raised hopes about a possible breakthrough on the north korean nuclear issue of using political analysts from iraq doesn't see it that way when sonny tells us more it is not political at all as mohammad are ideas that ibrahim will not let its groundbreaking new theory deal go down the drain like noah thre

east china sea the foreign minister says he is to work since already complicated complex in northeast asia. to what south korea and united states wants north korea today oh six three zero the stalled six party talks aimed at breaking out of international isolation in return for giving up its nuclear program had a serious pollution crisis at treating the health and environmental problems and every day. for some carbs in korea is generating big business opportunities the stories and more next time. seo prime time nears its wednesday november twenty seven here in korea microphone line in the common things so much for joining us we begin this evening with the escalating tensions in the north east asia region where china and its neighbors are fighting for control of waters in the east and south china sea from south korea's warning of consequences resulting from time as a parent part brad and everything to us setting fire to the disputed so happens that he has our top story what mr you get that fact china's new arrogant and found that overlap with those of kirby and japan will further complicate

malacca was a huge prize, the richest port in asia. by the time the portuguese arrived in 1511, malacca was already a wealthy center of trade for the chinese, the indians, the thais, and the indonesians. it was also a jumping-off point to the spice islands to the east. as one medieval chronicler put it, "whoever is the lord of malacca has his hand on the throat of venice." in malacca today, you can still see the influence of the portuguese in a number of their traditional dishes. steamed and dry-fried sambal crab; green kangkong tossed in belacan-- a spicy prawn paste-- and portuguese-style prawns; spicy fish baked in banana leaves; and the classic curry debal, or devil's curry. all these dishes blend elements of portugal and its former colonies in africa, goa, and here in malacca. rice, of course. my goodness, look at that crab. the portuguese had sewn up all the most valuable asian ports. but they had a rival: the spanish. and while the portuguese had gone east, the spanish headed west. christopher columbus tried to pass off the seed

cultural ties are as strong if not stronger with its eastern neighbors, with afghanistan and south asia. and, of course, iran will be a pivotal player as it has been all along in afghanistan, especially next year as the united states and nato began to withdraw all its, some if not all of their forces. we are launching a new issue brief this year that have some recommendations for u.s. policy. including a bigger role helping afghanistan manage its water resources, which is a key issue for iran as a downstream neighbor. and the united states can contribute to resolving other regional problems such as energy shortages, ethnic conflict, and drug trafficking. this would have enormous benefit not just for iran but for afghanistan, pakistan, india. indeed, the united states indirectly because of the drug trafficking. the principle author of this report is my good friend, fatemeh aman, is an expert on iran and south asia. she's worked as a journalist, media and political analyst and has written widely in english and persian. she's a frequent contributor to jane's publication and is currently pr

investors took their cue on monday morning from the overseas markets in asia stop. rallied after the chinese government announced a broad outlook for economic reform which included opening the financial sector relaxing restrictions on investment and improvements to the country's i.p.o. system they even saw a dramatic increase on monday as well hitting six hundred seventy five dollars per coin by one pm now these are record numbers for the online currency but however high it goes from here is anybody's guess elsewhere the former u.s. treasury secretary timothy geithner announced he will join private equity firm warburg pincus as president and managing director now geithner who stepped down as treasury secretary in january will join the new york based firm in march the firm said in a statement quote gov will work closely with warburg pincus is top executives on overall firm strategy and management investing and portfolio management organizational and funding structure and investor relations now governor played a central role in the government's response to the two tho

like in much of asia, it's getting very cold in the middle east. and there's an estimated 500,000 children that we don't have regular access to. and they need children's clothing. they need blankets as we speak. and then very important because wire looking at a chronic crisis now in its third year is how to avoid having a lost generation. these are children who need to be in school. these are children who need to be in a protective environment. and if we don't take steps now to get them back into school, the 2 million children i mentioned that have dropped out inside syria, 500,000 outside syria, then they will not be in a position to help rebuild the country in the future. when they become the adults of the future, it's extremely important that we do everything possible today to focus not only on life-saving needs, which are critical, but also on education and protection so we don't have a lost generation. >> so the most urgent is this preparation for winter. and in the long run, it's worth -- we have to think about this chronic situation as a los

south asia, india and those regions with 260 million people. they account for 30% of the world's mall nourish and they depend on wheat as their main source of nutrition. 50% of the wheat crop is going to be stressed by climate change, by heat. there is a question of how do you feed this population that's already hurting. >> sub-sahara africa, it's going to get hotter, dryer, what happens? >> correct. that's going to be another real challenge. there will have to be innovations on the ground and better technologies to bring up food production. but you also have winter winnere in canada when it begins to warm up, and they're able to keep up with it. >> this is not a challenge that your father had to confront, this idea of a rapidly warming planet with all the impacts. let's ask you for your response. >> well, i think the great thing about this report is it brings climate change, innovation and technology to the forefront in order to address what we have in climate change. we're going to have to have technology, we're going to have to finally accep

so he feels they need to shift focus to asia. he says hungary has a strong interest in japanese technology. he met with japan's prime minister, shinzo abe, and the two agreed to deepen cooperation in the energy field. abe sees hungary as an attractive market for infrastructure exports, a key pillar in his own growth strategy. hungarian officials plan to build two more nuclear reactors. they are hoping to produce more energy back home. one hungarian company produces machinery used in nuclear power plants. it had ties with manufacturer siemen's, but the german firm is ending their nuclear business as the country shifts away from atomic power. so the machinery maker is aiming to foster ties with japanese businesses. they hope to partner with them and win contracts for hungarian projects. >> translator: we have some products we'd like japanese firms to see. and they have a lot to show us, too. by combining our technologies, we could build new parts for nuclear facilities. >> reporter: japanese firms are also looking to cooperate with

investors took their cue on monday morning from the overseas markets in asia stop. rallied after the chinese government announced a broader outlook for economic reform which included opening the financial sector relaxing restrictions on investment and improvements to the country's i.p.o. system they even saw a dramatic increase on monday as well hitting six hundred seventy five dollars per coin by one pm now these are record numbers for the online currency but however high it goes from here is anybody's guess. elsewhere the former u.s. treasury secretary timothy geithner announced he will join private equity firm warburg pincus as president and managing director now geithner who stepped down as treasury secretary in january will join the new york based firm in march the firm said in a statement quote gardner will work closely with warburg pincus is top executives on overall firm strategy and management investing and portfolio management organizational and funding structure and investor relations now governor played a central role in the government's response to the

investors took their cue on monday morning from the overseas markets in asia stocks rallied after the chinese government announced a broader outlook for economic reform which included opening the financial sector relaxing restrictions on investment and improvements to the country's i.p.o. system they even saw a dramatic increase on monday as well hitting six hundred seventy five dollars per coin by one pm now these are record numbers for the online currency but however high it goes from here is anybody's guess. elsewhere the former u.s. treasury secretary timothy geithner announced he will join private equity firm warburg pincus as president and managing director now geithner who stepped down as treasury secretary in january will join the new york based firm in march the firm said in a statement quote gov will work closely with warburg pincus is top executives on overall firm strategy and management investing and portfolio management organizational and funding structure and investor relations geitner played a central role in the government's response to the two thousand and eight fina

. >> the senate foreign relations committee on east asia and the pacific affairs heard today about the u.s. response to the typhoon in the philippines, a storm that killed thousands and displaced 4 million people. this is an hour. >>> good morning. let me welcome you all to the m subcommittee on east asia and h the pacific for the senate subcm foreign relations committee. let me thank chairman menendez m for allowing us to conduct this subcommittee hearing on such short notice. senator rubio, thank you very much for your help and your hel staff's help in arranging this hearing in record time. when they say the senate can'tt act quickly, we did act quickly on putting this hearing together.d acthis h and i very much appreciate that, all the people who worked to ope make this possible. to the ambassador, it's nice tot see you again. we were together yesterday, andr billy, i'll refer to that a little bit but the filipino he ambassador to the united states is a friend, and has been mb extremely helpful to us.en shortly after the typhoon, we e had a chance to talk, and at that time i express

investors took their cue on monday morning from the overseas markets in asia stop. rallied after the chinese government announced a broad outlook for economic reform which included opening the financial sector relaxing restrictions on investment and improvements to the country's i.p.o. system they even saw a dramatic increase on monday as well hitting six hundred seventy five dollars per coin by one pm now these are record numbers for the online currency but however high it goes from here is anybody's guess elsewhere the former u.s. treasury secretary timothy geithner announced he will join private equity firm warburg pincus as president and managing director now geithner who stepped down as treasury secretary in january will join the new york based firm in march the firm said in a statement quote gov will work closely with warburg pincus is top executives on overall firm strategy and management investing and portfolio management organizational and funding structure and investor relations now governor played a central role in the government's response to the two tho

"biz asia america" continues right now. >> welcome back. i am phillip yin. >> taking a look at some of our other top headlines. retirees and teachers were among the thousands of protesters on the streets of athens today. they were protesting against two property tax and austerity measures. the number of americans applying for on them limit benefits felled by -- fell by 10,000 last week. wearing internet connected glasses while driving can land you in trouble. a california woman was recently pulled over and ticketed for wearing a pair of google glasses. >> are series, oil stands -- are series, oil stands at a crossroads continues. suncor energy, canada's largest energy, has plans to build a mine after years of delay. this is the biggest investment to date. that is expected to produce 80,000 barrels of oil a day. analysts estimate it is worth $3 billion. as others are expanding, canadian oil is struggling. the lobbying effort to get the keystone pipeline approved continues. political support is growing. the house passed a bill this summer to

hi there at sunset on and eastern asia. things are looking mostly clear for china and mongolia lots of sunny skies. but credit towards the north and east are running into some when she precipitation alone here over japan s and rain and snowfall even inspire them as fast as hiroshima gidley had made twenty six centimeters of snow in the last twenty four hours. that is a record for snowfall in november up twice in our heaviest snowfall for the last couple of days and in the next twenty four hours you could even see anything from thirty to fifty centimeters higher than the three of snow piling up in hope because i'm told will crimp. there will be heady still up in hokkaido was well come in by strong winds gusts exceeding one hundred km in our possible that means the possibility of a drifting snow and blowing snow reducing visibility and dangerous to travel conditions for the venue towards the south leaving things in heavy rain across the philippines once again luzon and the science of intense the scene from severe weather in t

you're seeing the rise of new leaders in northeast asia. in japan, you have shinno abe, while his second tour as prime minister, you have -- you have a new president in south korea, a new leaders in north korea, so the whole region, sensitive as it is because of the geographic and -- sensitive because of history and how it's played out will be an interesting play to keep your oy on. the united states is going to have to establish its presence in the region, toss forthright in terms of our support, to speaking clearly, and make sure we're consistent in all that we do. >> vice president biden, is it good timing or bad, it turns out he'll be in china next week. i remember on a previous visit he actually brought photographs from u.s. planes, showing how close chinese fighters got, within ten feet of the wing, to show the danger. what do you think his message will be? hopefully a voice of calm, but also resolution interest. we should view this as an opportunity for the united states to make sure it's crystal clear, we are here to stay. >> what w

cooperation mechanism the asia pacific countries and global nonproliferation efforts. it was also at the top of the agenda. one panel discussion stressed the importance of keeping tabs on north korea's nuclear and chemical threats. north korea is an outlier in all of these conventions. they're the only nation to withdraw from the npt. they have not signed the chemical weapons convention and as mr webber said they have a huge stockpile four times. maybe maybe four times larger than serious. also actively discuss the role of the military in cybersecurity steering cases of recent cyber attacks members lead out pragmatic methods to strengthen cooperation between the private sector government and the military in cyber defense operations on the sidelines of the defence nylon korean vice defense minister pics and julie and japan administrative vice minister of defense my sanity me she will hold a bilateral meeting wednesday. extra attention is being focused on whether the two sides will touch upon a sensitive issues at hand such as japan's pledge for collective self defense.

the project will serve really trust those fruits including china central asia china kazakhstan and china russia western hero. it was it in the voting system is it's all for your tuesday erections are chosen for the roads was a great demeanor density traffic both have a great car that so now as you know it's present implementation of the west and you wasted your time project is in full swing and the tenth of march in kazakhstan. presently about one point five thousand km out of two point four thousand is giving way to the commission. i hope that the project will be commissioned by twenty fifty the development of these projects on the twenty oh six and its present the special attention has based its implementation scenes one part of the road has a way the nation. at present the main concern is about the reconstruction of roads and the kazakhstan on the corner toward the cost of the project implemented in that era to kazakhstan and loan is more than six point five p the new scholars kazakhstan has completed the construction of one thousand six hundred and twenty five km of the woods to you

let me welcome you all to the subcommittee on east asia and the pacific for the senate foreign relations committee. let me thank chairman menendez for allowing us to conduct this subcommittee hearing on such short notice. senator rubio, thank you very much for your help and your staff's help in arranging this hearing in record time. when we say the senate can't act quickly, we did act quickly on putting this hearing together, and i very much appreciate that, all the people who worked to make this possible. nice to see you again, we were together yesterday, billy, referred to that, but the filipino ambassador to the united states is a friend and has been extremely helpful to us. shortly after the typhoon, we had a chance to talk, and at that time i expressed our deep condolence on the loss of life as a result of the typhoon, and america's interest to exercise leadership internationally in assisting the filipinos in the recovery, saving lives, and dealing with the restorations that are going to be necessary for the people of the philippines. the tragic typhoon, yolanda, was horrible, tragi

and central asia, and would also be of interest to the u.s. you know fight against terrorism, insurgency and drug trafficking as barbara also said. so let me just make you know, explain briefly what the report is about. .. no similar dispute with iran and the south asian neighbor. there are disputes which jim will explain in detail, but no differences over iran. pakistan and iran's relation has always been cordial and friendly friendly. with full military and financial support for pakistan during its wars with india, and in fact you're on was the first country to recognize pakistan in 1947 and pakistan was created. they have been very close and very friendly with full support in pakistan against india. one major reason was the fact that india and pakistan beyond two different camps on socialism and pakistan is a us ally and air on -- iran was a close ally of the united states in the region. so after 1979's revolution, iran -- every day friendships still continued and the exporting of islamic ideas and revolution that air iran band and was prom

top military officials and experts from twenty one nations across the asia pacific region gathered in seoul on this monday for the two thousand thirteen sold defend style that during this three day buys for this area level meeting protests offense will discuss ways to maintain peace in northeast asia the role of the asia pacific countries and global nonproliferation efforts and the role of the military and cybersecurity extra attention is being focused on a bilateral meetings scheduled between korean vice defense minister takes him to the defense administrative vice minister of defense not something he she has two sides have sensitive issues at hand such as japan's push for collective self defense and the signing of the bilateral treaty and exchange of confidential military information. south korea's chairman of the joint chiefs of staff came he says the possibility of north korean provocations near the west sea is higher than ever as reclusive regime has continued to bolster its military strength along the maritime border in a visit to unit stationed near the west sea on monday and r

to being a rebalancing towards asia.tioned earlier also the way in which you felt that the uk-u.s. strategic thinking and planning was important in the past, and you're not sure what state it is at the moment. nevertheless, do you get the impression, given the fact looking at it from a u.s. perspective, the cold war is over, communist countries are gone. you got united european union, 28 nationstates that this pivot is really a serious turning attention away from britain and from europe because of the macroeconomic and geopolitical developments that are taking place as result of the rise of china and everything else that's happening in the pacific at the moment? and, therefore, do you see the uk as far less important to the u.s. and it has been in the past, if it ever was important? >> i actually don't think, and maybe a minority view but it don't take a pivot had very much to do with europe when it was conceived. i think it was conceived strategically as a signal that the united states was going to get out of to very di