ms. jowell.e recently ran advertisements about our brexit coverage, which if you have not read it, is super, but we had a picture of venice and london asking, is london destined to become the new venice if brexit happens? i'm not necessarily going to ask you about brexit, though i'm sure people here would love to hear if you think it will happen or not, but how do you look at london today as a city, a clause i city state? ms. jowell: i think london is not a city state, and it would not be good for london to be a city state. london is the former city in the united kingdom, contribute into the strength of the economy in the united kingdom, but it is clearly distinctive. i think when i was in the plane flying over here today, i was sinking about this, this elusive definition of what is a global city. a global city is not a world city. not just a city. it's sort of describes a special kind of personality, self-confidence, which london certainly has. connectedness to the rest of the world, which londo

ms. jowell: absolutely. look at the businesses in london, which speak with virtually one voice on the importance of european investment. he was absolutely right to share party inm with the doing that. this is an issue of national concern, not now or party politics. gillian: would you go out and be an ambassador for thailand, not just bangkok? while theytra: very littlee is time to engage in international diplomacy. it difficult to travel. people here in chicago, in bangkok will start asking, where's the governor, why isn't he here trying to drain water from the streets? [laughter] gillian: so we will watch the weather forecast in bangkok. gov. paribatra: that doesn't mean we don't engage in any diplomacy at all. we have good relationships with different cities. but that's one thing. it is a totally different thing to engage in international diplomacy on a sustained basis. ibassador chan: fully agree with everything that has just been said, but i would say that cities do, mayors do can do some type of diploma