claude? 2 it's good that india is joining the human race.i think my colleagues know a lot more about india than ideal. and if they were really talking about doha so i did three things in my eight to 10 minutes. one, i would like to pick up on some of the themes that susan and arvind panagariya talk about about the trade policy of the obama administration and tie that to something we haven't talked about and that is the united states india regionalism and end up with questions about india's ability to participate either the fda or the regional agreement. so let me start with the trade policy of the obama administration anti-finally to india, but not sort of specifically at the beginning. in an earlier session we had on trade policy here, i mentioned that a colleague of mine at the kennedy school first couple of months of the obama administration, i think this is true today, are still today described mr. obama or the obama administration, the president as a passive free trader and his point was that the president was willing to intervene again

. >> thank you, claude, and i wanted to thank you all very much for your presentations. before we move to questions from the awpped yens, i actually want to take the moderator's prerogative and follow up on an issue that you've all touched on with respect to india and its fta policy. india has been in negotiations with the european union as well as with korea, and given the slow process of the doha negotiations we've heard that, that u.s./india trade has increased greatly in the last ten years. and my question is with the sort of still-forming trade policy positions of the obama administration combined with the potential new impetus in india for, perhaps, more work in doha as well as in fta policy what could we see happening in terms of perhaps a u.s./india fta? and with respect to the other regional arrangements, can the u.s. compete with the e.u. and korea without an fta in end cra? -- india? >> i think that it is interesting to look at the evolution of india's ftas as claude was outlining, and the rubber is really hitting the road in the negotiations, india's negotiat

my colleague claude barfield is a resident scholar here at aei. is the author or editor of a number of books on trade and science policy. and has also served as an advisor to the office of the u.s. trade representative. our format will follow the one of the prior panel. each panelist will present eight to 10 minute remarks. we will then open up the floor for questions. so with that, i will turn the discussion over to susan. >> thank you and good morning, everyone. several factors provide a stronger foundation for u.s.-india cooperation today on bilateral and multilateral trade and economic issues than has been the case in the past. first the implications of the recent indian election your second, the extent of ties between u.s. and indian business today. and third, the fact that we are building on the stork u.s.-india civil nuclear agreement. there is, therefore, a case for optimism for some progress on trade, but there is this optimism really must be tempered by realism. i would like to highlight a couple of aspects of the election results that i

in canada, claude, chair of the commission which recommended the quebec establish a government-run system in the 1960's declared last year the system is in "crisis," his words. private clinics are opening all over canada at the rate of one per week to treat those who are on waiting lists at the public hospitals. many canadians who have the resources to get out of the bureaucratic government have chosen to do so. as the republican leader pointed out, britain's national institute for health and clinical excellence, the entity responsible for setting guidelines on pharmaceuticals and treatment for british patients denied parents in that country access to four kidney cancer drugs with the potential to lengthen the patients' lives explaining it this way -- and i quote -- "although these treatments are clinically effective, regrettably the cost is such that they are not a cost effective use of resources." a chilling statement, indeed. the stories of parents being denied treatment by their governments are real. president obama and some of my colleagues in the senate, like the majority whip, have

i can name names, clawed alegra, -- claude alegra, a top scientist from france. he used to be on al gore he's side, clearly he says we have reevaluated. david bellamy, the same thing is true there, he was on the other side. so there is no consensus on this -- on the fact that they think that the gases are causing global warming. the other thing is we don't have global warming right now. we're in the fourth year after cooling spell. but that's beside the point. i'm not here to address the science. i'm here to focus on the argument advanced by my colleagues, which is that unilateral u.s. action on global warming will compel other nations to follow our lead. as i've documented in speeches before, since 1998, and, by the way, if anyone wants -- my colleagues want to look up the speeches, it is inhofe.senate.gov. look it up. if you have insomnia some night, it might be good to read them. they're all about two hours long. many would find it troubling, indeed, even if you believe the flawed ipcc or united nations science that science dictates any unilateral action by th