chinese-american history. as an aside, she supported her late husband mark li, after whom the chinatown branch library is named. laura's name also adorns the heart of research and learning. i wonder -- i want to thank laura for generously donating time money and materials, to the chinese historical society, seven cisco public library, and so many other organizations. i happen to hold in my hands a chapter of an anthology called chinese-american history and perspective called born lucky. we are lucky to have benefit from your civil rights advocacy documentation of chinese-american history for serving as an advisor to the friends of roots program, program every year that sends another generation of future chinese-american leaders to find your roots. the saturday laura is going to be honored this incredible network of chinese-american leaders on the occasion of the gala. and because of that i want to present a proclamation that hopefully we will adopt later his program today to declare april 27th, 2013, as laura

, but chinese education barely teaches them at all.hat's the problem. lu wants to increase the number of partner schools in japan. but no school has shown an interest, perhaps because of cool relations between the governments. >> i think anti-japan protest here worry them. but i want them to understand that there are many chinese like us who love japan. >> a 16-year-old is in the the first year of the program. his mother recommended he enroll. >> translator: i want to study in japan and get more exposure to the culture. >> they also studied in japan. she thinks if her study there it will give him an edge in finding a job. >> translator: since i have a fondness for japan, i hope my son will find a job related to the country. >> reporter: his father never lived in japan, but he says he is not worried about his son living there despite tensions. >> relations are not good, but politics and ordinary people's lives exist on different planes. while he is there i hope he learned from the japanese, like their incredible work ethic. >> even thou

i heard a chinese scholar, an american scholar with chinese academic background. he talked about the real change on the peninsula will occur someday when china realizes that its security interests are better served with its relationship with seoul than it is with pyongyang. and i wonder if, what you think about that. because as i look at that, you know, we know that china is south korea's largest trading partner, and certainly the relationship with seoul is a much more productive one than the one with north korea, but, of course, everything that you laid out, why it's in china's interest to support north korea, you know, those are really incommensurable relationship with seoul and relationship with north korea. but i wonder if you envision that there would ever be a time when china would feel that seoul is more important than pyongyang, and will be the implications of that? >> thank you david. those are really excellent questions. on the bank of china as i mentioned we will see whether it's sustain. we've had iterations in the past of china preparing to crack down

. >> it's chinese, yes.oduct. the truffles-- if i put--if i make the tin in china, it's a chinese truffle. >> i'm stunned. he was saying that since the truffles are packaged here, he can legally write "product of france" on the label. it feels like i'm being tricked into thinking i'm buying french truffles, you know? >> yes, i understand. >> and there's another problem. spores from the chinese truffles are infecting the european soil and taking it over the way the kudzu weed has taken over parts of our own southeast. it began to happen in italy, so the italians made importing chinese truffles illegal, and there's a move in france to do the same. >> [speaking french] >> they are putting into danger the crown jewel of french gastronomy. if one day, by accident, our plantation starts producing chinese truffles, we are dead. [leaves rustling] >> the great fear for michel tournayre and the other trufflers in france is that the chinese will do to their precious delicacy what they have done to louis vuitton bags: p

contributed either chinese. as bad as the japanese contributing about 60% at the peak with the united states. but still, china is facing a lot of problems from the united states with regard to trade in other countries. not just the u.s. >> when you look at the research question and wonders of messieurs. if china is the big winner, who are the losers? >> loafers, i assert me a great china is getting pushed back for obvious reasons. i agree as well some of our policies are wrongheaded and in effect is. i think railing about human rights is totally irrelevant. they have a different balance between individual freedoms and collective progress. i say that i'm a pejorative way, but a factual statement. the chinese get pushback because they are not a benign act your in all cases. they think about it from the point of view of their great degree in economic, cultural and military terms. i'm not suggesting they are the enemy, but i'm suggesting the chinese think about winners and losers and i am suggesting they behave it m

that unnerved many chinese. your specific question about how to move the chinese in a better direction is very important. some things that we are doing are already moving them in perhaps a more hopeful direction. keep in mind, every new military deployment that we make, every new anti-ballistic. and technology that moves and the region that is intended to deal with the north korean threat, every major new movement by u.s. aircraft , on thebattle group east or west side of the peninsula, has implications for china's own security. all of these weapons systems, these exercises, these deployments, may be intended for north korea, but if you are sitting in beijing you have to , pleasel of these take your complaint to pyongyang o. i think there are other things we can do to get their attention, as well. i think there is a role for track two and tracked 1.5. unofficial and semi official alternativewhich futures for the korean peninsula is discussed. what would a reunified korean peninsula look like jack? would it pose

from that legion there's a chinese melody that originated from all the women in 1923 and that chinese melody later became the theme for the butterflies violin concerto. i honor this from china representing the generation of my grand parents who were chinese immigrants in the united states. i trofrm this in an expression of my own. >> don't confuse me. (clapping). ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ in ma ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ in (clapping) >> after my father died in a two airplane collision over the grand canyon my mom had to singularly raise my sister and me and rogers and hammer stevens you'll never walk alone it has carried me throughout my whole life. i recovered the meaning of you'll never what can alone when i was for church services at a black church. the first time the black congregation sank thomas a doris sister take my hand precious lord i heard the lyric through the symptom and i connected the words when you walk through is a storm. i how were you this song you'll never walk alone the the soft united states representing the generation of my parents, my father a chooindz

you work with chinese companies. my assumption is that chinese food that comes into the united states would be subject to exactly the same standards of quality as the domestically produced stuff. and we already get shrimp, tilapia, other kinds of products from foreign sources, and i assume that they have to meet our standards, too. >> well, it's true, but it's also true that foreign product is subject to higher standards importantly from the standpoint of enforcement resource allocation at the ports of entry, only about 1.7% of products offered for import are subject to examination. so even if you multiplied that by ten, you would have four entries getting in without exam for every one that is examined. so single out the chinese is unfair. but from the standpoint of national security, it's certainly true that food infrastructure has an impact potentially on national security and the congressional review that will ensue under the foreign investment, national security act could, on the floor debate, use a populous appr

taxpayers are being used sort of as the seed corn for chinese jobs and chinese entrepreneurs. >> i think that you are falling into the trap of the sunk cost fallacy. you're looking backwards, you're outraged, rightly outraged abo the bailout, you simply have to look forward. bmw sold 300,000 luxury cars in china last year. audi 400,000, cadillac only 30,000 and this just a huge profit opportunity. i don't know why you're so upset about them making a profit. >> we'll tell you why. >> rich, you're treating the $20 billion that taxpayers are still owed like a rounding error. just pooh-pooh. >> the best way to pay it down is for gm to become profable. >> you're clearly missing my point. i'm saying don't ever do this again. >> bingo. >> do not use taxpayer money -- >> rich, i would emphasize that fact. we are looking ahead and are worried about this happening before. there have been bailouts before in the past that have gone bust. clearly some of these green energy projects that have gone bust, and there are more of them coming online all the time. they're buying them up, the chinese are buyi

it's an american born and chinese. to have them be proud to come back into their community and hopefully from this day forward you will be able to see a lot of changes. i know my sister was a little teary eyed when we talked because it was recent when we lost our parents. we'll ensure their legacy moves on. thur thank you board of supervisors. [ applause ] >> thank you, on behalf of my sister i want to accept this recognition for our parents. they passed along this year. they were the pioneers of our chinatown community and start the china town community association years ago i remember coming back with my mom when the freeway was torn down and she wanted to make sure it stayed up because she knew it was the lifeline to chinatown. i remember the spirit of my mom and how strong she was and she was here in these chambers with over 20,000 signatures to put onto the ballot but unfortunately we did not prevail and the freeway was torn down. in any event, we got to take the highroad and we started the moon festival street fa

that's the way chinese people apparently like it. the company staff in charge of the chinese market are also targeting corporate customers. they're hoping that cafeterias, are for instance, will suv their curry. >> translator: curry tastes good with all kinds of ingredients including vegetables and chicken. we think it will be a good edition to your menu, and we're sure your people will be satisfied what it's taste. >> this cafeteria is now serving japanese curry once a week. it's becoming quite popular. >> i always look forward to having the curry on wednesdays. it's delicious. i would like to eat it a few times a week. >> it's our goal to make japanese curry everyone's favorite in china, just like in japan. >> chinese people take to one of the most popular dishes in japan? nhk world, shanghai. >> hong kong residents consider the skyline one of the most spectacular in the world. now it's turning heads for a whole new reason. this inflatable duck is the work of a disturb artist. it has a message of peace and has been taken to a numbe

but i think overall, the chinese ump and certainly, also, its chinese government, will see this as aitive contribution to domestic food security and efficiency. >> woodruff: steve myer what about just the idea, a big part of the american meat, pork business could be foreign owned? >> well, that's something that americans-- you know, we have to decide our comfort level with that. it is not the first time this happened. in the 70s and 80s we feared the japanese would buy the whole country. they owned pebble beach. my goo that's a serious deal. before that it was the arab countries. we do have to be comfortable with that and while there's a committee that will review this. i don't see national security issues. there have been concernses raise. if we export all the pork, as long as we can respond to the market, we'll grow more, and we have plenty of food in the united states. we can argue that distribution sometimes, but still i don't think there's a real issue there that merits a lot of handwringing on our part, even though at some point we have to be concerned about foreign ownership.

chinese deny it. and use all the allies to push against china. >> andrea: putting pressure in china in the past, even on human rights issues. we seem to be hamstrung. we owe a lot of money. we seem more hesitant. >> greg: all we care about is the pandas. i don't no who is worse the chinese or eric holder. why don't we pay the hack eggs to conduct the investigation into benghazi. at least they might find out who posted the video. >> this is superpower and superpower does superpower things. this is what they do to gain wer. china has a lot of free time. they don't sit there and obsess over childhood obesity or co2 levels or make personal phone calls to professional athletes that come out of the closet. what are priorities becoming more and more powerful. it's like what you say, bob, we are not paying attention. >> bob: the united states and israel did a good job of putting viruses in reunion nuclear weapons. i would put more viruses they could ever deal with. >> dana: we were very good about leaking the

many of the activities at the chinese cultural center.er leadership, as you see her leadership goes beyond art. it's been a range of issues for her community to improve our lives. her leadership achievement and dedication to the asian pacific american causes never cease to amaze me. after all she has accomplished in the asian pacific american community with her work, i look forward to seeing what else she has in store for us. thank you, thank you, please join me in welcoming irene riley for honoring her today for the asian pacific month from the board of supervisors. [ applause ] >> thank you supervisor yee and president chiu and supervisors. president chiu, why couldn't you start from this side? >> that's what we did last week. >> after all these wonderful speeches, i'm speechless. anyway, it's a real honor to be recognized today to be with all of these elite honorees and especially special to be recognized by supervisor yee. like supervisor yee i have a long career in the financial services field and work with many non-profit organizati

catch up and then once they're there the price can go up significantly because the chinese will not be agood will not be left behind so that's one of the big plays going on and sort of the international monetary system of the world gold market you have a jim follow up on not a little bit because i'm hearing anecdotally that's exactly what's going on is that the door is being held open for the chinese that these attacks on paper gold price are a way to allow china to accumulate this four thousand or more tons of gold which will avoid at some point having to have a global devaluation and a new brain would style a kind of global confound it cetera that. this is an easy way to according to some to get to that point by artificially keeping the price cheap they're allowing china to accumulate and then once they get their four thousand tons then everything devalues against gold when there's some kind of currency harmonization going on that's what i'm hearing you're suggesting that that's what's going on can you talk a little bit more about it i think that is what's going on max what's inte

if we resist, the chinese may get testy. on the other hand, and has enough of its own military and economic problems. it is not there yet. this is as much of chinese attempt to get great power status on the cheap by a big bluff and the president would be sorely mistaken to get buffaloed by the chinese leadership. host: charles is on -- on the line. caller: you listed a whole series of things in which they are essentially gathering information from our technologies. -- you listed. my question is why can we not load those technologies with some little false things so that when they copied these things and fly the first airplane it would not get off the ground before they launch a submarine and it goes to the bottom? we can loaded with false information and they would not know whether it is or not, so they don't know what to follow. i will take your answer off the air. guest: great question. people have suggested that. it may have been done. there have been recent stories about computer programs to do things for oil turbine's b

and by the way if the chinese are in the futures markets you know putting in massive sell orders good luck with the see if t.c. try to investigate that you're not going to get any information out of the chinese i mean they can barely keep up with the insider traders in the united states they're not going to get anything out of china so china can do it pretty much with impunity and maybe people don't want to ask too many questions anyway but but you know you can have a bretton woods conference right now because the chinese don't have enough gold when it's like a poker game when all the players sit down at the table everybody wants the same big chips china doesn't have enough chips to play right now you know remember between one nine hundred fifty and one nine hundred seventy under the old bretton woods system u.s. gold reserves went dropped from twenty thousand tons to nine thousand tons where the eleven thousand tons go well went to our trading partners three thousand to germany two thousand to france two thousand italy five hundred to the netherlands cetera so flash forward thirty ye

weapons systems by the chinese. the 'll be joined by author of a mother jones article. ♪ host: members of congress are out of washington this week for a weeklong recess while president obama travels to chicago to do some fundraising for the democratic party. here in washington general ray odierno will discuss the challenges facing u.s. military as well as troop levels in afghanistan ever -- afghanistan and iraq. the bipartisan group looks at coverage. a new report that finds that four out of 10 mothers are the sole or primary breadwinners in u.s. households. we want to get your reaction to these numbers and the trend in society. for democrats, 202-585-3880. for republicans, 202-585-3881. for independents, 202-585-3882. also send us a tweet, twitter.com/c-spanwj. e-mail us as well, journal@c- span.org. here is the research poll from their web site. breadwinner moms is the title of the poll. a record 40% of all households with children under the age of 18 include mothers who are either the sole or primary source of in

and they clearly blame the chinese military. >> the chinese military continues to explore the role of military operations in cyberspace as a future modern warfare. in 2012 numerous computer systems around the world, including those owned by the united states government continued to be targeted for intrusions some of which appear to be attributable directly to prc, government and military organizations. >> reporter: the report follows alarming revelations from senior officials at a private cyber

but at some point we're going to be eating chinese poultry and probably chinese pork. >> neil: it's amazing, we would think twice, i think, if the chinese wanted to buy one of our defense companies or high-tech concerns. but we don't bat an eyelash when something more basic as a food company is under chinese hands which could be potentially more serious. >> yeah, and i hope that the regulators here in the united states take a very hard look at what they're about to do here. as you said, china has a very, very poor food safety record from contaminating infant formula with melamine to illegally antibiotics in animals that have sickened people, and so we really have to take a good hard look at what's this transaction is going to do to the american consumer. >> neil: it is weird. unsettling. tony, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> neil: fat chance the chinese thing does not go through, fatter chance, the keystone thing doesn't go through. that's good, something that should go through does, keystone would be a huge victory for this country, right? wrong. kevin says we have a fracking packet,

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