we have so many stories to tell in asia pacific heritage month. when i was in the classroom, stories of his struggle and how he empowers young people to turn their lives around are so inspiring. we need to count. to keep telling those stories. we need to keep telling those stores. my daughter is now the same age as a number of other kids of our families. part of asia pacific heritage month is making sure she knows about them and a dancing justice in the asian-american communities. i first met mayor lee when he was a hard-working attorney at the asian law caucus. they just celebrated their 40th anniversary with the founders and other organizations throughout the country. key part of the justice movement. my daughter needs to know about the stories and be proud of who she is. she needs to have a pan-asian consciousness about her. i am so proud to be here with you leaders and my colleagues as well. thank you, everyone. [applause] >> supervisor charmen chiu has joined us as well. i was born a month before the evictions. a lot of our filipino and chine

>> on the asia pacific region. >> on the asia pacific region? well, i think we've made it clear for the past several months that this department has a robust asia pacific strategy that is contained in the new u.s. strategic guidance. the secretary, when he was last in asia, previewed much of that strategy. he talked about the united states being a pacific nation and a pacific power. he reiterated that several times in several locations in the region and on the continent. the asia pacific region is vital to u.s. national security interests and will be so in the future and we are absolutely turning toward the asia pacific as a place where our strategic interests are increasingly of importance, our partnerships with partners in the region are critical, and we're going to continue to invest in those relationships. so we have a very sound asia pacific approach. so i would take issue with any suggestion that we have not put appropriate emphasis on the asia pacific region as important to the united states military and our future. yes, let's go over here

alliance is peace, security and stability in the region. >> translator: the asia pacific region is at the center of the world's development, but at the same time, there are so unstable factors such as fears over north korea and the buildup of armaments over maritime disputes. we will realize the realignment of u.s. forces to strengthen the security of the region. >> obama calls the asia-pacific region strategically important and stresses the u.s. military presence there will be geographically distributed and operationally resilient. >> the u.s./japan alliance will remain the foundation of the security and prosperity of our two nations but also a cornerstone of regional peace and security. as such, we reviewed the agreement that our governments reached last week to realign american forces in japan. this reflects our effort to modernize america's defense posture in the asia pacific with forces that are more broadly distributed, more flexible, and more sustainable. >> obama and noda have also reaffirmed the need to warn north korean leaders against provocations. experts expect authoritie

we're including audrey from the asia-pacific fund. jay runs the asian art museum. that is one of the gathering places for asians in san francisco. the asian weak foundation has been working the last eight years on the asian heritage fund. we're glad that on saturday we will be joining with the asian art museum and target stores and cloudy and to hold the asian american street celebration, the largest gathering of asians in america. it happens in front of city hall and the art museum. over 100,000 people will be here on 10 city blocks. we are proud we also have the largest event for asian- americans in the city. thank you for being here today. i want to commend mayor lee and all of san francisco for taking leadership in the asian-american community. they care very much. -- thank you very much. [applause] >> this is what i have been waiting for. i will like to bring up the co- chairs -- before i do that, i want to thank target one more time. they are the sponsor of many of our major events during the month. i would like to bring up the co- chairs of our awards commit

we all know whether you agree with the president or not that the pivot is to the pacific, asia pacific, we've heard many, many sessions in here by many of our military leaders about the concern about the pacific and the rising strength in the pacific. now, what that represents for someone like myself who comes from hawaii, is the fact that you know that our pacific command is housed on the hawaiian islands, we have no, quote, natural resources in terms of fossil fuels, and that is why the development of alternative energy in a very broad definition of alternative energy is not only critical for the stability of the military in the pacific, but also for the united states as well. think about it. we're talking about the housing of our troops in the pacific, that's also a consideration. it's not just the ships or the jets, it's also where they live. it's the bases. how do we provide the electricity and so forth that's the power that's needed to run those types of facilities. that's alternative energy. hawaii has geothermal. how do you transmit geothermal from one part of the state to the

we are looking to bring leaders together from across the asia pacific. and just recently last september, in san francisco, we had a gathering for part of the preparation for the asia pacific economic community meeting in hawaii. we talked about something which i have talked about for a long time, but which is really getting traction now, and that is improves women's access to capital in markets, building women's capacities and skills, supporting women's leaders and skills, it's important, not just because christine and jane and i are women with interests but we know that the more women participate in economies, the more successful those economies will be. so, we're working all the time -- [ applause ] we are working all the time on the full range of issues. you've been very patient tonight and very kind. my friends who bought tables to support the wilson center and to come and be here this evening, and i wanted to just give you a short overview of why we believe that this kind of full engagement on all levels in our diplomacy and development work is the o

the situation in the asia- pacific region. and there are global challenges, among others -- we were able to confirm from the broader perspective to the present day significance of the japan-u.s. alliance and where japan-u.s. relations should be headed in the longer term. the president spoke about his support, and i would like to take this opportunity to say thank you for all of the support given by the government and the people of the united states, beginning with the operation conducted by u.s. forces at the time of the great east japan earthquake and tsunami. yesterday i met with families of -- anderson, who, unfortunately passed away, but who took care of children until the very last moment following the great east japan earthquake. i also met with representatives of the fairfax county search and rescue team who came immediately following the earthquake, deployed in the region to help the people. so, i was able to meet with these true friends of japan. i have always held the conviction that our bilateral by alliance is the

definitely going to make that move now, and so marie -- marine corps presence in the asia pacific also. finally, we sustained or launched new capabilities specifically for the asia pacific region. i mentioned the new bomber. didn't mention yet the virginia payload module for the virginia class submarines, conventional prompt strike and a host of upgrades in radars, electronic, protectional electronic warfare, new munitions of various kinds and on and on and on all not only protected but enhanced going forward. so i wanted to give you some of those particulars because i know that's one of the strategic principles that was most interest to an audience like that. take one more and then i'll -- that's it. the other one really derived from the president himself who had a very good instinct in this regard. he kept saying to us, make sure that you don't follow the last in first out rule, that you don't pull up the things that are most shallowly rooted, namely, your new things, because that's the easiest thing to do. i want to see that we are enhancing the capabilities that are going to be par

we ail know that the pivot is to the pacific, asia pacific. we've heard many sessions in here be my of our military leaders about the concern about the pacific and the rising strength in the pacific. now what that represents for someone like myself who comes from hawaii is the fact that you know a pacific command is housed on the hawaiian islands. we have no, quote, natural resources in fuel. it's not only critical for the stability of the military in the pacific but also for the united states as well. think about it. we're talking about the housing of our troops in the pacific. it's not just the ships and the jets. it's also where they live. it's the bases. how do we provide the power needed to run the facilities? that's alternative energy. hawaii has geothermal. how do you transmit geothermal from one part of the state to the other parts of the state? >> we will break away from the recorded portion and take you back live. >> the chair recognizes mr. bartlett for any comment he is would like to make. >> i would like to thank my good friends f

is somewhat strange when the national strategy after a decade of land wars has pivoted to the asia, pacific and middle east where both c power and air force projection forces are critical due to larger distances involved. the obama administration proposal to pivot to asia while cutting navy ship building and air force projection power makes no sense. another important provision in our mark was the requirement for the navy to maintain a minimum of 12 ballistic missile submarines which institutes 1/3 of the stealthiest leg. the navy plan delayed by two years the construction start of the first boat of the class which will replace our ohio class submarines. the two year delay equated to over a decade where there would be only ten votes. this mark also maintains strong funding for the air force bomber programs tankers and air lifters. there are other important provisions in this mark that are meant to maintain the greatest navy and long range air force the world has ever seen. i want to thank my friend, mr. forps for his work on the readiness subcommittee. we interfaced with the process of tryi

. >> translator: the asia pacific region is at the center of the world development. they had factors such as fears over north korea. they had a maritime dispute. we will realize the realignment of forces to strengthen the security of the region. >> he was referring to china and taiwan. their governments are allocating more money to military spending. they are involved in territorial disputes with japan. obama calls the region strategically important and stresses a military presence there will be geographically distributed and operationally resilient. >> the u.s.-japan alliance will maintain the foundation of the security and prosperity of the two nations and a cornerstone of peace and security. we reviewed the agreement to realign american forces in japan. this reflects our effort to modernize america's defense posture in the asia pacific with the forces that are more broadly distribute and plexible and sustainable. >> obama reaffirmed the need to warn north korean leaders against acts including nuclear tests. >> translator: there is a strong possibility that north k

we have so many stories to tell in asia pacific heritage month. when i was in the classroom, stories of his struggle and how he empowers young people to turn their lives around are so inspiring. we need to count. to keep telling those stories. we need to keep telling those stores. my daughter is now the same age as a number of other kids of our families. part of asia pacific heritage month is making sure she knows about them and a dancing justice in the asian-american communities. i first met mayor lee when he was a hard-working attorney at the asian law caucus. they just celebrated their 40th anniversary with the founders and other organizations

asia-pacific. what would the effect of the sequestration be? let me not talk about sequestration in particular. let me talk about budgetary issues in general. one of the things that i've tried to articulate some unsuccessfully, somewhat unsuccessfully -- you may decide i have moved a bit here in one direction or the other today. even if we did not have any budget limitations, reductions, constraints, whatever you choose, we would really need to change based on what we've learned over the last 10 years of war and where we see security -- the security environment going in the future could we ever tried to -- i say "we" -- we have tried to jump out to 2020, and decide what the threat environment with look- alike, and then determine what capabilities we would need to address it, and then look backwards at ourselves sitting in 2012, getting ready to submit a budget that goes from '13 to '17, knowing we would have four opportunities over the next four years to build this force for 2020, against the strat

pacific island of guam and personnel from both countries will cooperate in reconnaissance activities across the region. obama outlined a new defense strategy in january, placing greater focus on the asia-pacific region. at the same time, he cut the defense budget by nearly half a trillion dollars. so, he has called on japan and other allies to play a greater role. but some analysts are skeptical of whether the agreement will lead to concrete results. the self-defense forces are restricted in their use of weapons and scope of activities they are able to perform. >>> president obama scolded chinese officials about their human rights record, but shied away from a prominent example. chinese activist chen guangcng escaped last week from house arrest. he is now believed to be under u.s. protection in beijing. >> we also believe that that relationship will be that much stronger and china will be that much more prosperous and strong. as you see improvements on human rights issues in that country. >> obama says he is aware of the reports regarding chen, but is not saying anything that would make it harder to resolve the case. chen is blind. he has campaigned against forced abortions under chin

asia pacific build up and support for chinese dissidents leave beijing weary. and as china's rampant economic growth and political influence continues we take a look at how big a challenge this is for the world. john i say thank you very much for being with us today it's a pleasure sir thank you for having me so trevor has been a mystery for scholars throughout centuries why is it such a challenge for thinkers these days up till these days everything is revealed now it's now it's a challenge that we can show and challenge i was still in charge well. you know first thousands of years there was such an insulated isolated place that others didn't come in and it's only been relatively in recent years that a lot of people tried to i myself have been going there for forty four years since nine hundred sixty seven but that's new for westerners to spend so much time there were two did before but now they're all over the place although i think the western report is not very good about china but there are a lot of people there and my wife and i have been. going there for

in the philippines as well as in asia pacific generally is imperial dominance is the same as the motives in the middle east and central america the obama administration has instigated a strategic pivot to asia pacific mainly to contain china's rising economic and military influence washington considers military power and economic progress prerogatives of their own only we have military bases and troops in japan and singapore and. in south korea in the philippines in australia and the aim here is to make our military power known and visible in order to contain china it's meant to frighten china the united states has been supporting the filipino government for years even as it's committed serious crimes we've increased on shipments of the united states in my mind should not be going all around the world when there is not a threat to our direct interests or our people and showing off our military and expanding the military empire we don't need to have bases in all of asia pacific just to contain a non threatening china. let's take a look at some other stories from around the world montes ru

was going to pivot its foreign and military policy into the asia pacific ahead i think it has much to do with circling russia and china trying to control access to resources particularly in central asia around the caspian sea trying to control the direction that pipelines go to move the oil and natural gas from the caspian sea so this is a long term project that the united states is undertaking to really control the declining resources around the earth i don't think it's going to be slowed down by any president any new president that gets elected oh all right i'm afraid that from a time we have birth daniel for space for peace or thank you for your time thank you. and you can have all mine to our t. dot com where right now we're literally bringing you the widest of you. how's this for a few shocking shots thrill seekers in russia's far east a show of their head for heights with these dizzying pictures posted online although the local police they weren't too thrilled. plus hunting fox the phone hacking scandal plaguing rupert murdoch's news corp sees high level calls for many of his am

the asia pacific is the future. as you look across north africa, the horn, italy, south asia -- you see a range of regimes that are weakening. somewhere, al qaeda has gotten a foothold, and some like syria and in bali, where they are desperately trying, but now is not the time. we are pulling out marines and putting them into australia. that may not be the time to move also strategically to the east. >> so what you're saying is shrink the footprint, but keep the eye on the enemy. >> i think you said it better than i did. >> i have to say, this was one of the most conference of histories of the last 10 years that i have read all in one book. it was a good read. great to talk to you, thank you very much. >> thank you very much. .. >> this month as part of book tv college series will visit the university of virginia to talk to present to the professors and doctors. first toe of the author of a government out of sight. this is a little under have an hour. >> the book is called the government out of sight. this tree of na

in the philippines as well as in asia pacific generally is. imperial dominance it's the same that is as the are their motives in the in the middle east and in central america the obama astray sion has instigated a strategic pivot to asia pacific mainly to contain china is rising economic and military influence. washington considers military power and economic progress prerogatives of their own only and so. they want to know that we have military bases in troops in japan and singapore in. in south korea in the philippines. in australia and the aim here is to make our military power known invisible in order to contain china take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe gunfights ever uttered in mallees capital bamako was troops who overthrew the government in march clashed with forces loyal to the ousted president several reportedly killed when loyalist storm the national broadcaster headquarters at advanced on the airport the military coup brought chaos to mali and is allowed separatists in the north to split the countr

so i was forced to look at the countries around the pacific asia rim and try to figure out how they really ran their business models nationally. not what was in the newspaper, but the truth of the matter. which is quite different, by the way. so beginning with post war japan and what that story is really about, still i think

it raises doubts about our commitment to the asia-pacific reason -- region. the idea that we must rebalance u.s. foreign policy with an increasing emphasis on the asia-pacific region, that is undoubtedly correct. the challenge we face is how to make this balancing effort meaningful. amid all of our political and fiscal problems, we run the risk of over-promising and under- delivering on the renewed commitment across the pacific. it is difficult to overstate the gravity of the choices before us. we face decisions that will determine the vector of american power in the asia-pacific region diplomatically, economically, and militarily for decades to come. we have to get our bearings right. if we fail, we will drift off course and fall behind. if we get decisions right, we can your conditions to expand the supply of american power, strength and american leadership and secure america's national leadership across the pacific. while the context in asia in jihad -- is changing, will seek the same objectives we have always had. the ability to prevent, deter, and prevail

pacific region. they issued a joint statement and entitled it a shared vision for the future. the japan-u.s. alliance is the foundation of peace, security, and stability in the region. >> translator: the asia-pacific region is at the center of the world's devepment. at the same time there unstable factors such as fears over north korea. and the build up of armaments over maritime disputes. we will realize the realignment of forces to strengthen the security of the region. >> he was referring to china and taiwan. their governments are allocating more money to military spending. they are involved in territorial disputes wit japan. ama calls the region strategically important and stresses the military presence there will be geographically distributed and operationally resilient. >> the u.s.-japan alliance will remain the foundation of the security and prosperity of the two nations and also a cornerstone of peace and security. as such, we reviewed the agreement that the governments reached to realign american forces in japan. this reflects our effort to modernizamerica's defense posture with forces that are more broadly distribute and more flexible and sustainable. >> obama has reaffirmed the

the regional concept will be important in the asia pacific region as we move forward. home to seven of the ten armys and this will follow over the next several years. for enduring commitments in some of the theaters we plan to employ rotational units. europe comes to mind as we reduce two combat teams and leverage equipment, sets and exercises to allow us to promote regional security and enhance capacity and sustain our relationships with our nato and other allies in europe. finally as the army's strength reduces it is important to note that this leaner army will be vastly more capable than our pre-9/11 army. besides ten years we continue to increase a special operations force capacity. we have significantly increased our ability to conduct surveillance and reconnaissance. we have increased our aviation assets to support world wide missions and responsiveness around the world. we continue to increase our cyber capability as we move forward and we continue to look at other capabilities in order to move forward. we are also reviewing and refining our organizational desi

military's asia pacific buildup and support for chinese dissidents leave beijing where e. nato fails to move forward on the missile defense dialogue with russia as moscow says it reserves the right to strike back if the system breaches its security. gates four pm thursday afternoon here in moscow review watching around the world welcome to see this my name's kevin know in our top story two of egypt's leading presidential candidates are suspending their campaign they blame the ruling military council for wednesday's brutal attack on protesters up to twenty people were killed and more than one hundred injured while known attack is sparking further clashes the rally was supporting a disqualified ultra conservative islamist candidate is seen as one of the front one as before he was banned various political forces accuse the ruling military of orchestrating the bloodshed syria first looks into the chaos religious tensions and created a postscript. taking phone in middle eastern. this is the leading cleric and the man and his film the leader is just one of a number in which he s

military's asia pacific buildup and support for chinese dissidents leave beijing where e. to stay with china as china's rampant economic growth and political influence continues we'll take a look next how big a challenge this could be for the world.

military's asia pacific buildup and support from chinese dissident speaking. nato fails to move forward on euro missile defense with russia says it reserves the right to strike back if the system breaches of security. now thursday's world sport . hello welcome along to the sports headlines here's what's coming up the race for europe's sasco moscow russia lokomotiv three nil to take ownership of the one remaining champions league qualifying spots in the russian for a meal or. staying put or heading stateside russian media reports that andre cura lanka is to join the union relocate to brooklyn nets a bucket hundred million at macau book club. and reinforcements up the ready and h.l. stars you can email kane on pavel datsyuk to rise to bolster the russian buy talkies bald head of the image well championship. the first football and sasco moscow have moved second in the russian premier league following a three no when at lokomotiv larm side themselves were still in the hunt for champions league football at the start of the gang were down to ten men early on which m

as we pivot to the asia pacific region, it is critical that we have a lay down plan that is resilient and sustainable and i believe we're moving in that direction. i appreciate the committee's continued support for the strategic realignment in the asia pacific region. additionally our mark supports energy improvements in our department of defense which are very important in the future security of our nation and has some important environmental provisions that enhance the readiness of our military. however, and as i have stated in premark meetings, i have some concerns about our mark. the mark prohibits the requirement of the class cruisers at the cost of nearly $630 million in this fiscal year only. and what's most concerning about this amendment is the unfunded mandate that it places on the navy in the future years. we live in a time where we must make difficult decisions. our action also deny the navy the ability to reinvest these dollars into a newer more agile, more capable network centric fleet which is necessary to meet our strategic goals. i feel this vision is more focused on

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military's asia pacific build up and support for china's dissidents if beijing wary . and egypt's a fledgling democracy looks increasingly vulnerable or head of the presidential election as violence flares over blacklisted candidates and the military accused of pulling the strings. coming up capital account with lauren list.

military buildup in the asia pacific region well for more on this we're joined now by dr chen from the east asian institute at the national university of singapore thank you for joining us here in artane our hillary clinton arrives in china for talks on corp in reality what are the u.s. strategic goals in the region. i've been there u.s. strategic goal actually is still thought that contain china rice and tried to keep the balance of power in that region on the way and economically u.s. is doable in were engaged china they want to. make and the treaty ties with china but on the upper hand on the security and the strategic perspective actually the u.s. is still trying to look and contain the right of china what washington does seem to be irritating china and with its military buildup in asia pacific and indeed as you mention the latest incident with a blind activist to skate house arrest and fled to the u.s. embassy is any meaningful dialogue really possible between the two at this stage i think you get there are some meeting for dialogue between the two candidates there must be in the

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