but cheng, you may have some insight. he may have been with cheng li for all i know flagmac. >> if they now, the rise of social media. >> before answer that question i want to say something, and i have, i want to say a few words to dr. kissinger. not only as a chinese-american, but as when someone who grew up during the cultural revolution, as you emphasize the remarks that generation of leaders will take over power to belong to the cultural revolution generation. for this extraordinary generation that i have part of that, the very name of henry kissinger embodies wisdom, diplomacy, respect for different cultures, promoting positively hope. hope for an open china that integrates with the outside world. hope for better u.s.-china relationship. so your remark is bringing forth the sentiment that you expressed, what you did. now, the open china to you and president nixon made in early 1970s was not only a turning point in history, but also that the event has changed our lives, the millions of people, millions of chinese, chi

will then turn to dean cheng. he has been our senior fellow for china political security here at the heritage foundation pacificare asian studies center for by more than three years. i'm reminded every day how great it is to have him around because he's right down the hall from me and i can publish it in at any time and tap into his enormous enormously, enormously full brain. dean brings extraordinary talent and expertise having worked 13 years as an analyst, first with science application international corporation, and then with the china study vision for the center of the naval analysis. dean earned a bachelor degree in politics from princeton university in 1986 and a steady for his doctorate at mit. so with that i'm going to turn it over to dr. li. he will get us started, and bridges go through, take maybe 10, 15 mins each and hopefully we can get to question and answer pretty quickly. thanks. >> [inaudible] >> can you see that the screen? great. thank you for the kind introduction and honor to speak to you tod

can you imagine what cheng li is talking about?can you imagine the transformation he is talking about how the party is to transform itself and in overreaching ways? >> all of it have seen, in china, 40 years and especially since the reform movement. each of them think of china as a dictatorial government, a 1-party state. a totalitarian government. and before its final estimation. i think it will be more transparent. its legal system will be more predictable. it has huge adjustments to make. china should export less and consume more. partly an economic question. it is fall so a huge chance formation -- transformation of society. there will be less dependence on globalization. all i am saying is i can imagine that. the next ten years will be extremely complicated. that demand -- expect that will make an inference with which we are more familiar. it will be a chinese version but it will be more transparent and it will not be achieved without some domestic difficulties. we have to be sensitive to what is emerging and different from wh

is cheng going to be the one to handle the economy? will that be a disaster for china?>> well, you know, i've been asking a lot of people in china to try to find out what exactly is he like behind the scenes, and one thing that they've been reminding me is don't forget, he's been the executive vice premier for a while, so he has been hand in hand on a lot of things, for example, all of china's five-year plans. those are planning processes that he was very heavily involved in. the problem is i don't -- i haven't heard anything about him taking a leading role. when you talk to people like the head of the central organization department, he has some really great stories about how there are things, reforms that people were staunchly against but that he just rammed through past a lot of opposition, got hu jintao to back him, and then it was a done deal. and he's used to going against opposing voices. i haven't seen anything quite like that. that makes me a little bit worried. it seems like the economic leader that is used to and knows how to ram things back against opposing

vice foreign minister chikao kawai launched a protest with chinese ambassador cheng yonghua. japan controls the senkaku islands. china and taiwan claim them. assistant secretary of state kurt campbell, who arrived in japan on thursday, is in charge of u.s. policies on east asia. he said he met with china's vice foreign minister in the u.s. before leaving for japan. >> we talked about the importance of relations between china and japan are restored and improved, and that is in the best interests of not just the peoples but the countries and everyone in the asia-pacific, including the united states. >> campbell is scheduled to meet with japanese officials to discuss bilateral cooperation on situations in east asia. >>> we interviewed a prominent british analyst on how he sees japan/china relations at the moment. professor michael clarke is director general at the royal united services institute for defense and security studies. >> for european, we understand the issue, i think, of the islands. we understand the delicacy of the issue. but it is a problem that can be similar disp

the clerk of the authority is erika cheng. i want to thank the following members of sfgtv staff who are covering this meeting. mike freeman and jesse larson. madam clerk, if you can please call item number 1, roll call. >> roll call, [speaker not understood]? present. chair campos? >> present. >> commissioner david chiu? david chiu absent. carmen chu? present. elsbernd absent. [speaker not understood]. commissioner mar? olague absent. commissioner westerner? wiener? >> present. >> please call item number 2. >> item 2 is approval of minutes of the july 24, 2012 meeting. >> there is an action item. is there a member of the public that would like to speak? seeing none, public comment for item 2 is closed. you have before you the approval of minutes for the july 24 meeting. [speaker not understood]. can we take that without objection? without objection. item number 3? >> chair's report, this is a commission item. >> i have a brief report today. this is our first meeting coming back from the legislative recess of the san francisco

richard cheng says that cardiac arrest wasn't due to a heart attack. it was electrical. he had an arrhythmia that led to acute stress-induced heart failure. >> his heart was functioning at 10% so he had what we call pump failure. and he was essentially dying. >> reporter: dr. chang inserted a maniature rised assist device. smaller than a pencil, the device pumps blood giving the heart a chance to rest and heal. >> i told heather, his wife, i would give him 7 to 10 days. if his heart is going to get better it will in that time frame. if not he will need an implantable heart pump or transplant. >> reporter: it's new technology that buys time and it worked for broome. >> he walked out of the hospital on his own. >> reporter: he has a second chance with his own heart and a first chance at being a dad. >> so that's something that is precious and is priceless and is awesome. >> curtis broome walucky. doctors removed the pump after his heart healed. other patients need a larger more permanent device and some will go on to get a heart transplant. the broomes are expecting th fir

david lampton and cheng li. it is honor -- and honor to be here. i am melissa block and have a deep and abiding interest in china. i would like to follow up -- we will talked for a while and then there will be time for questions. i want to start with the odd fact of the heir apparent's disappearance. he missed appointments and no one knew harry was -- where he was. i can tell you at our meetings there were discussions that were worthy of abbott and costello, is she, she is missing. when? not when, either. it is cheap. where where she and how do we interpret the fact that the next apparently there of china was missing -- apparent heir of china was missing. >> my experience in china is this, traditionally, chinese media did not talk about the personal lives of their leaders. and so, if a leader got ill, nothing was reported about it. i remember when li disappeared in 1995, i think it was the spring of 1995 or the fall of 1994. and he was simply not there. there were no reports and the media about what had happened to him. it later turned out he proba

one case where we saw governor romney speaking out on human rights was on the cheng wan cheng affair,and i think that's a good example of the obama administration's commitment to human rights where our embassy allowed in a prominent dissident, protected him, gave him sanctuary for a few days while negotiating or not negotiating depending on whether you talk to the chinese or the american side, an agreement for him to stay in this country freely. and then he changed his mind once he came out, and the agreement was renegotiated. this was a pretty bold thing to do, to let him in and then to negotiate him out. in the middle of this, governor romney issued a statement denouncing the obama administration and secretary clinton for throwing him out of the embassy, for forcing him to leave and called it a tragic day for the united states. um, that was irresponsible, it was factually wrong in that he wasn't thrown out. he went because he wanted to, then he changed his mind. and it was a really clumsy intervention in a very sensitive diplomatic process where a life was at stake. >> would you car

we will then turn to dean cheng. dean has been our senior fellow for china political security issues here at the heritage foundation and specifically in our asian studies center for a little more than three years. i am reminded everyday how great it is to have him around, because he is right down the hall from me and i can poke my head and at any time and tap into his enormously from the enormously full brain. dean brings extraordinary expertise and talent having worked 13 years as an analyst. first is science application international corporation, sc icy and in the china studies division at the center for naval analysis. dean ready bachelor's degree in politics from princeton university in 1986 s studies for his doctorate at mit. with that, i am going to turn it over to dr. li. he will get us started and then we will go through maybe ten, 15 minutes each and hopefully get to question and answer pretty quickly. thank you. >> i have a powerpoint. can you see the screen? okay. that's great. thank you for the kind intro

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. >> now back to christian bale, holds cheng in high regard and this is what he said about him at awardple that i met. he represents their hopes. their aspirations. and their desire to be free from corruption and tyranny. he is a symbol of what an individual is capable of. no matter how humble his or her origins. he is in my opinion a giant among men. >> where is he now? >> he is nyu asia law school, school of law and he said to the crowd that he noticed that american lawyers succeed by speaking up. that the squeaky wheel gets -- the squeaky wheel get it is grease he said but limited christian. christian bale speaking for him, still worried about an older brother put in prison and held without any information now since his arrest and since chen's freedom. >> richard roth, thank you. >>> a former biker, mail order bride and a briefcase full of cash add up to a tale of intrigue. details of how he brought down a top al qaeda leader. americans are always ready to work hard for a better future. since ameriprise financial was founded back in 1894, they've been committed to putting clients fir

what it happened over a period of time if people think it is a center right thing but all these chengli are going on. it was actually development by the left. what happened by the presidential reelected george w. bush, three left-wing billionaires, george soros, peter lewis raise $200 million for a series of organizations together and try to defeat president bush. so this type of structure had been found for a long period of time. another thing gone on even longer with labor union participation, specifically democrats. in election after election, it is the biggest spending of the labor unions. and when karl rove and ed gillespie started looking at the 2010 elections, they realized that while big labor, which is $400 billion to a public president upon the 2008, there was no corollary that existed on the right to spend large amounts of money for house and senate. so karl rove smartly started american crossroads. it was interesting. i was working across her as an and president obama actually attacked carr wrote in february seeking a legal money from china, which was funny. as soon as he

cheng li put on earlier. he will be basically acting as the head of state and serving as a decision maker one among equals on the politburo standing committee. we believe that li will be the next leader. the big question is going to be what happens with wong. he has the nickname of a firefighter because he's brought in to fix a range of crisis and he's a protege, the former premier that rolled out some very ambitious banking system reforms and the question is going to be how well wong be able to work with li to actually pushed the destructive reforms passed the rest of the standing committee, and more importantly passed the standard enterprises in local government interest that might resist them. at present, it doesn't look good because at present, a's pilot committee only has one economic portfolio, that's the portfolio of the premier. he has that portfolio right now. wen jiabao has been a relatively weak economic manager. his predecessor did not rely much on the bureaucracy's behind him to come up with idea