chiang gave was good a hundred and 25 pound chinese person is at the same risk of a caucus of one hundred and 50 pounds. metabolic is silent and you don't have to be overweight and silent to have it. that's why it's really, really important if we only focused on the people that are overweight and obese that's too late it's about metabolic health and especially chinese with at higher risk. open this up for public comment. now colleagues and i know we have a number of parents so if the parents could speak first. we have and i'll read all the cards (calling names) if there's other parents please come forward if people can come forward and maybe line up on that side of the room. >> good morning. i'm chinese. my parents and uncles and grptsz they all have type 23 diabetes and only one is over weight. there are reasons but one contributing factor is that he was really addicted to coca-cola and catch that ketchup when he had at every meal he is now on dialyses and suffers from health disease and is at risk of losing several toes so it wasn't until recently and my career in public health that i u

and at the end of the day from a philosophical point of view, chiang kai-shek may win the argument. >> okay. we've got time for a couple of more questions. how about this gentleman right here in the sweater? >> hi -- [inaudible] john hopkins. in your travels, discussion with chinese leaders, what is your sense of who has control of china's southeast asia sea policy? is it the chinese government or is it the pla and the vast chinese energy consortiums? is it possible the tail is wagging the dog in southeast asia? >> all right. first of all, even within the chinese people's liberation army/navy there are differences of opinion. there are some naval voices in china that argue for a more conciliatory policy in the south china sea. remember, china is not as totalitarian as it was under mao. when it was totalitarian, only a few men controlled everything, including the military. but as that system goes from totalitarianism to a more traditional authoritarianism, different power centers emerge including the military. so the military is very, is more and more politically powerful, and the mili

. >> we traveled to the region of chiang mai in northern thailand, home to many of the elephant camps enjoyed by tourists. >> there have been recent sites based in africa watching elephants, among other things, for a very, very long time, whereas in asia there's very little research has been done. very little has been said about the dramatic drop in population. no one would have any idea that this species is also endangered. >> john roberts runs an elephant camp. he was one of the first to recognize the link between the supply of elephants for the tourism industry and elephant hunting in the wild. >> we've been jumping up and down saying, if you buy an elephant, you're probably taking another elephant out of the wild. we realized very early on that buying elephants was causing a problem and hurting the wild population or at least the burmese population. >> the hunting of wild elephants is illegal in thailand, but experts claim the practice is widespread in neighboring burma, and it threatens the last healthy populations of asian elephants that reside there. baby elephants are particul

chiang gave was good a hundred and 25 pound chinese person is at the same s

chiang gave was good a hundred and 25 pound chinese person is at the same risk of a caucus of one hundred and 50 pounds. metabolic is silent and you don't have to be overweight and silent to have it. that's why it's really, really important if we only focused on the people that are overweight and obese that's too late it's about metabolic health and especially chinese with at higher risk. open this up for public comment. now colleagues and i know we have a number of parents so if the parents could speak first. we have and i'll read all the cards (calling names) if there's other parents please come forward if people can come forward and maybe line up on that side of the room. >> good morning. i'm chinese.