foreign policy arena development and thanks to jonathan pollack and other safety richard burks. i also want to say thank you to ambassador park that i know well and underscored the importance that we place, the administration places on the role of think tanks, scholars, very important contributors to the policy dialogue to our formation in the implementation of our policy, not only in washington but in the republic of korea in people's republic of china and also i am pleased to participate with the peking school of international studies. many years ago, when i worked for first senator and then ambassador, mike mansfield, i frequently heard him pronounce that the next century, the 21st century will be the century of the pacific. i remember thinking at the time that it sounded a little hyperbolic here fortunately, i kept my mouth shut the case now we all accept how prescient those remarks were. i mansfield i know was profoundly good thing the affairs of northeast asia because he believed as president obama and secretary kerry believe that america's well-being, security, economic f