finally, a good friend and a real hero of southeast asia and asian policy in the senate is chris brose. he works with senator mccain in his office. previous -- before that he was senior staffer in the senate armed services committee. chris rose through the ranks doing pretty interesting things, including writing speeches for and advising people like colin powell. he has spent a lot of time in asia, more than most senate staffers, unfortunately. without further adieu, what we want to talk about in this panel is architecture as it res to security. i'm going to ask my colleagues to kick it off in the order that we're seated in. and then we will open up the panel to question and answer. david, it's over to you. >> thank you very much, ernie. it's great to be back at csis. it's a great honor to be joined up here with ambassador mirpuri and chris brose. i have been in my job -- my must job at dod for almost exactly one month now. and i can tell you from my experience during that one month that secretary of defense hagel certainly has a very strong personal interest in asia and east asia, giv

it's great to be back at csis and it's a great honor to be joined with ambassador curry and chris brose. i have been in my job, my new job at dod for almost exactly one month now. i can tell you that from my experience during that one month that secretary of defense hagel has strong personal interests given all of his history. the secretary of defense, the deputy secretary of defense, the under secretary of defense for policy, my chain of commands are deeply committed to the rebalance to east asia. we have seen that most recently in deputy secretary works travel to the region. you will see a flurry of senior level meetings and counters this fall including coming up securities and chaired on the american side by myself. before bee go to tokyo. you will see a defense consulting talks with the chinese. you will see military meetings and security meetings with our allies and also in november, president obama will be visiting and he will take part in bilateral discussions. the rebalance is among the highest priorities on my agenda as well as on my senior leadership's agenda and you will see