strategies toward northeast asia. the threat and modernization of child's arsenal and nuclear deterrence and other allies in the region hosted by the stimson center. this about 90 minutes. >> good morning, everybody will stop i'm delighted to welcome you to this event on monday morning. we are delighted to see all of you for discussion on a very important international security topic. extended deterrence and strategic stability in northeast asia. we are delighted to welcome brad roberts who has finished long towards working with this issues as the deputy assistant and two is just back from a long visit in japan talking with the japanese about their views and extended deterrence. i know his remarks today will be focused in part on his research in japan but also more broadly how the u.s. looks at these issues for all of its present engagements. i am very happy to turn the expert atur lead stimson and part of our east asian program. i hope it will have a discussion that will illuminate some of the issues on the minds of

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the way you sort of -- people put jewelry on these things in the most rapidly growing market in northeast asia, south asia, north america. everyone has their way to personalize it. the truth is, can apple still sell the old, outdated technology at a high price, 4s, increasingly the 5, and have a cheaper version of the new one, the 5c. that's the $64,000 question. does the new software actually work with the hardware better? does it do more things-o or just look different because it's flat design? i think that's the story. >> just wonder if the story is going to be a similar one to what it's been in the past from a stock standpoint and that's a sell on the news event. you know, the stocks come up. maybe people sell it. the rel real tell we won't get until the first or second week of october when apple comes out with earnings numbers and we find out how many of these new devices they've sold. >> that's right. i think that you have seen a 20% plus move in the stock coming into this, which is on par with some of the best moves it's seen in the past. in those instances, yes, apple did not trade up.

what is the talk in northeast asia? the talk is the north koreans are increasingly close to miniaturizing their nuclear inventory having the delivery capacity to disrupt one of the most important economic regions of the world. are you a country willing to do something about it, or will be left to our own devices meaning we all go nuclear? you get a sense of what happens with the new arms race in the region. what we are discussing is syria is very important for this country because we're going to have even bigger conversations about in fact if there are redlines that exist and if there are no what we intend to do about it. neil: would you suort going in on the sis of their existence in the administration? >> i think we talk about a weapon of mass destruction which chemical weapons are a part of, it has to be a line that has been crossed. here's why it is important we keep talking about it. you are never going to get to any kind of peace agreement in working with russia, china or even iran at some point unless you have so

the talk among security types was, is the united states ready to recognize a red line in northeast asiao consider going nuclear. what happens then? japan follows suit. and an arms race in the region. this i think is a healthy conversation to have. >> i'd like to talk about the conversation the country is having. this is obviously a war weary nation. given that mind set, governor, isn't it important -- everyone's saying this has been such a bad week and the president is dithering. having -- i'm not so sure about that. i think it's important to hear all sides of this. and ultimately whether the president acts alone, people will have a greater understanding as to why, will they not? >> mika, you bring up a pretty good point. this is sometimes an ugly process we subject ourselves to. it looks like we're in fumble formation. it looks like there will never be an end point. let's face the facts, we're a big deliberative society. we chew on these issues. we talk about them. we weigh them very carefully. my respect goes out to every member of congress, both sides of the aisle, who have a very to

it is our common responsibility to maintain peace in northeast asia. yesterday was the eighth anniversary of the september 19th joint statement. before yesterday, china hosted an international workshop in beijing to mark the 10th anniversary of the six-party talks. china believes that dialogue and the negotiation is the right path toward a nuclear weapons- free peninsula and that the six- party talks have turned out to be an effective mechanism for dialogue. the parties concerned should recommit themselves as soon as possible to a joint statement and the work together to create the necessary conditions for the restart of the six-party talks. the u.s. position on this is of vital importance. china is ready to keep in touch with the u.s. side. we were also ready to cooperate with the united states on other regional hot spot issues such as afghanistan. 10 days ago, the second china/u.s. collaborative training course to afghanistan diplomats was launched in washington, d.c. i sent a message to the program. afghanistan is in the phase of crucial transition.

destroyer an aegis is what we need to assure our allies in northeast asia.we need to synchronize their efforts with our state partners in this regard, working with the country teams who are out and about right there in the countries in the future. we need to leverage each other's budget so we are not going at cross purposes or on parallel paths but not connected. senator, thanks for being here today. for 22020, or in light of budget reductions, it can you speak about where you see unmanned? how does that fit into global operating forward? you, the broad area maritime surveillance is called the triton which is a global hawk. deployed by 2020. it will be in the western pacific, probably operating out of qualm and provide us -- out of guam and provide us with about 2000 miles. we will have that kind of maritime broad coverage. we don't have that today. we have maritime patrol aircraft but that unmanned feature is good. that is in the air. on the aircraft carrier by 2020, i would hope to have an unmanned carrier launch surveillance and strike called the u-class

it is ouch common responsibility to maintain peace in northeast asia. yesterday was the eighth anniversary of the september 19th join statement. before yesterday, china hosted an international workshop in beijing to mark the 10th anniversary of the six-party talks. china believes that dialogue and the negotiation is the right path toward a nuclear weapons- free peninsula and that the six- party talks have turned out to be an effective mechanism for dialogue. the parties concerned should recommitment themselves as soon as possible to a joint statement and the work together to create the necessary conditions for the restart of the six-party talks. the u.s. position on this is of vital importance. china is ready to keep in touch with the u.s. side. we were also ready to cooperate with the united states on other regional hot spot issues such as afghanistan. 10 days ago, the second china/u.s. collaborative training course to afghanistan diplomats was launched in washington, d.c. i sent con graceses to the program. afghanistan is in the phase of crucial trans

south korea's president park talked with us about climate change and its importance in northeast asia. and while we were there in south korea the ministry of trade, industry and energy warned of power storages due to high temperatures. so we met with public officials in rooms with air conditioners shut off to save power. senator mccain and i heard from china's leading climate official, minister shia, about cha'lan to invest almost $475 billion on clean energy and emissions reducing projects through 2015, nearly half a trillion dollars between now and 2015. and about seven regional cap-and-trade programs that will eventually include other large cities like shanghai, beijing and tenzin. for my colleagues who say china must act first on climate change, they are acting and we should not look 0 to them for an excuse to delay action here at home. indeed, a report recently by the pew charitable trusts describe china as -- let me quote this -- china -- "the epicenter of clean energy finance, attracting $65.1 billion in investment, it garnered 25% of all solar energy investment, 37% of all win

t is ouch common responsibility to maintain peace in northeast asia.tement. before yesterday, china hosted an international workshop in beijing to mark the 10th anniversary of the six-party talks. china believes that dialogue and the negotiation is the right path toward a nuclear weapons-free peninsula and that the six-party talks have turned out to be an effective mechanism for dialogue. the parties concerned should recommitment themselves as soon as possible to a joint statement and the work together to create the necessary conditions for the restart of the six-party talks. the u.s. position on this is of vital importance. china is ready to keep in touch ith the u.s. side. we were also ready to cooperate with the united states on other regional hot spot issues such as afghanistan. 10 days ago, the second china/u.s. collaborative training course to afghanistan diplomats was launched in washington, d.c. i sent con graceses to the program. afghanistan is in the phase of crucial transition. what other country can proceed smoothly with the reconciliation

in asia gunmen killed two soldiers, northeast of cairo. the u.n.y council's five permanent members are struggle to go agree on how to deal with syria's chemical weapons stockpile. they insist that they have the same goal to rid syria of its chemical arsenal. but a joint shaoupbgs on how too do it is alluding them. >> reporter: calling for accountability. u.n. secretary general man ki-moon pressured the counsel to reach an agreement. >> i sincerely hope that russia and the united states demonstrate their leadership at this time. particularly the countries of permanent members of the security council, they have a causally important historical and moral political responsibility. >> reporter: secretary of state john kerry sought to reassure members of the senate foreign relations committee that the framework of an agreement reached between the u.s. and russia can work. with security council backing. >> the united states will not do any of this by trust. this is not a matter of trust. it's a matter of verifying and verifying and enforcing. >> reporter:

it is our common responsibility to -- on northeast asia. yesterday was the eighth anniversary of the september 19 joint statement. before yesterday, china hosted an international workshop in beijing to mark the 10th anniversary of the six-party talks. china believes that dialogue and the negotiations is the right path toward a nuclear weapons free peninsula, and the six-party talks have turned out to be an effective mechanism for dialogue. the parties concerned should we commit themselves as soon as possible to the joint statement, and work together to create the necessary conditions for the restart of the six-party talks. the u.s. position on this is of vital importance. china is ready to keep in touch with the u.s. side. we are also ready to cooperate with the united states on other regional hotspot issues, such as afghanistan. 10 days ago, the second china-u.s. collaborative training course through the afghans diplomats was launched here in d.c. i sent a congratulatory message to the program. afghanistan is now in a phase of crucial tran

it's amazing, we've had three in the last week, in asia, but it's a great question, jim, because it differs. you take the northeastday is probably 85 degrees. because the ice coffee sales spike. in new york, going down into this sort of area where we are now, the perfect weekend coming up, we feel really good about this weekend. it's going to be like 65, 70, so you get iced coffee and hot coffee. and then when you go into the less developed areas, they're still in the hot coffee phase, so they do a little bit better when it's a bit cooler. >> okay. and i have to do this -- remodelled store versus not remodelled store? what is the pickup in same sales? what's the pickup if you have a drive through? >> firstly, we don't do it just to drive the customers. it's to keep the image up to indict. we track a small comp increase, low single digits. our franchisees are very happy with it, they get a good return on the investment. drive-thrus i think are key. 90% of our new stores this year will be drive-thrus, another thing we're work on, is increasing the hours. i mean, you know, we had a financial review yesterday, we got

northeast last weekend is still there. behind it, another front moves through the asia. we're watching the low through the area emerging and developing with another low. sounds confusing. watch it on the model. we could see a low develop. that happens, it slides up the coast. we may be talking about rain through the weekend into the beginning of the week. >> we have ways to go get right now it's a coin flip. whether or not it's a good weekend or not, best we got. >> every weekend is a good weekend. regardless of weather. >> good point. >>> we'll take a break. coming up on may day, do you know what the may day button means on the kindle? do youio why jeff bezos got involved with "the washington post"? you soon will. >>> also ahead, 40 states are calling on the federal government to start regulating e-cigarettes, state officials calling the devices dangerous and now there are some reports they can even explode. the humble back seat. we believe it can be the most valuable real estate on earth. ♪ that's why we designed the subaru forester from the back seat forward. the inte