. >> with ewould like to join, but it's got to be a multi-lateral institution with the kind of transparency and the kind of governance arrangements that the world bank has. >> reporter: the u.s. and japan are worried about china using its bountiful financial resources in asia. tomoki matsuda, nhk world. >>> people in japan have been seeing imports outweigh exports, still, the measure of trade and investment is in the black. >> japan has been racking up trade deficits for 27 months, but overseas investments, actually, they've been doing really well and that's helped push the current account into the black for a third month in a row. ministry officials say the current surplus is $8.4 billion. that's despite a trade deficit of $6.2 billion. strong overseas sales of cars and steel pushed up exports by 11.6% in yen terms from a year ago. increases in purchases of liquefied natural gas and communications equipment boosted imports by 10.4%. but returns on overseas investment made up for the trade shortfall. the primary account is how much japan earns from the foreign investment. the surplus in the

and what i saw is, with ewould have a lot of folks that would come back. it is a little bit of an achille heel. this is my fourth time here. what would happen is they would show up thinking they knew everything about it not understanding this is a complex world which means it is constantly changing. and they wouldn't do all their homework to reunderstand what had happened and in many ways we set ourselves back to say, well, you know, that worked two years ago. it doesn't work anymore. because this is a complex world. constantly changing. what did i say our enemy tries to do? they try to emulate and avoid our strengths. so that tactic that you used before does not work any more. in fact it gets people killed. our enemy is avoiding that or they emulated it and they do it better than we do. so i would say a lot of what we have put in here is not just my experience, but almost a collective experience, not trying to focus on ieds, but saying that is an example of the enemy adapting, and avoiding our strengths, which is tank-on-tank fight, and then trying to emu