here i want to embrace a report that the atlantic council has done, secretary albright and steve hadleyhere the outline not a crisis of the middle east, but a crisis from the middle east where you have extremism and migrants exported, again undermining europe. we can deal with that in the short term. a has to be dealt with in the long term with our allies, redoubling and deepening our relationship with allies in the region. means our traditional sunni allies and then working over the long term to tap with secretary albright and steve hadley bradley's as a very promising tendencies in the middle east as well. finally, in the last point is china. if russia is the biggest threat short term to global system, china could be a threat over time to the global system, but it's also a stakeholder now and has this huge amount at stake right now. we can't put herself into conflict with china if we want the global system to be reinvigorated, to adjust and to survive. we have to do do it together with china. along those lines i think with a double down our relationship with our allies in the far east

and then working over the long term to tap what secretary albright and steve hadley rightly saw as some very promising tendencies in the middle east as well. entrepreneurshi entrepreneurship, something that can point to prosperity. and finally china. if russia is the biggest threat short term to the global system, china could be a threat over time to the global system. but it's also a stakeholder now, and it has a huge amount at stake right now. we can't put ourselves into conflict with china if we want the global system to be reinvigorated, to be readjusted and survive. we have to do it together with china. along those lines i really think we then have to double down our relationships with our allies in the far east because if we're strong with our allies, with japan, with south korea, with others, we will be able to have a much more positive relationship with china. so those would be my three. u.s., europe, middle east, china, asia. >> thanks very much. and senator cotton, i want to go to you on this. what do you sense donald trump's priorities will be? we've all seen tweets, we've al

in the region, and that is our traditional allies and then working in the long run to tap what steve hadley and madam albright saw. youth to point to prosperity. and also, a point to russia, and if china is the threat over time, it is a stakeholder now, and it has a huge amount at stake right now. we can't put ourselves into the conflict with china if we want the global system to be reinvigorate and readjust and survive and we have to do it together with china. along those line, i really think that we then have to double down the relationships with the allies in the far east, because if we are strong with our al allies with japan, with south korea and others, we will be able to have a much more positive relationship with china, and so those are the three u.s./europe/middle east/china/asia. >> thank you. senator cotton, i want to go with you on this, what do you sense that the donald trump's priorities will be? we have seen the tweets and the things that he has said in the campaign and since he is president-elect, and what is your sense of the priorities in terms of the foreign policy? >> we

institute of peace and for peace and i especially want to thank steve hadley and many of the national security advisers and other cabinet officers for their graciousness, their time and their counsel over these past two months. with the current and former national security advisers in the way of current and former national security council staffers and others that are in the room here today this really represents the collective wisdom and experience of some of america's greatest national security thinkers, practitioners and stewards and what i would like to do is make up brief pause because i'm in awe of secretary albright was sitting here that front today and i would like everybody to give her a round of applause. thank you so much. [applause] as susan just demonstrated and as secretary albright has also demonstrated just a grace, dignity and an elegance and a commitment to this country that goes beyond our wildest imagination to people outside don't realize the sacrifices and what you see in.arise, ambassador rice and secretary albright and i think that transcends who we are. it is

. >> steve hadley played a crucial role in doing that. >> those are two good examples, 30s the unification germany within nato from april 1989 when eastern europe started vibrating all the way through september 1990. when germany was unified in nato. that was one not born out of failure but out of an on anticipated event which was gorbachev and the loosening of control over eastern you europe and the consequences. the president in this case the spring of 1989 seen these events basically created the policy of going as fast as one could toward german unification and evolving gorbachev deeply in that process. so is really basically trilateral endeavor to bush, cole, gorbachev opposed as we recall but it was responding to events. so there are of good examples when this works. if you go back to say the case i'm most familiar with which is the 1i just mentioned it was because of the trust in baker and cheney brent and the president worked their way through tactical disagreements without a bump. that's what it takes to implement the policy and the examples we have been using and we will see if th