how about the united states? i'm interested in a number comparison with 50. >> the u.s., having a longer history in space and a much larger budget, has probably put up something i think on the order of 500 satellites. >> who are -- are those satellites that china has in space, are they civilian or military or dual use? >> they're very much dual use. china's space program at this point is mostly oriented spacect recently, very recently. >> uh-huh. >> will you describe the spacecraft? accelerated from >> the manned capsule is probably capable to our gemini series. it's the second manned launch. it's longer, wider and heavier than the soyuz and it's in fact quite a bit more capable than the soyuz. >> is it as big as a standard public bus? >> it is about 25 feet long. so i have to admit, i'm not sure how long a bus is. >> what about the interior of the vessel? >> it's quite cramped. and some of the video we've seen so far put out by the chinese suggest that much accelerated from w module is crd indeed. last night they

the united states has trashed its own country and trashed the international system the chinese are not going to be kowtow to the united states anymore i mean they they're the ones that screwed up and they're not going to listen to them anymore under any conditions. you're absolutely right i was in beijing early this year doing research and that's exactly what i heard like devaluation of the yuan for instance we are going to devalue our a currency progressively there is a body at that of the central bank of china that is in charge exclusion of all of this transition towards a more developed you want it's going to be busy they say until two thousand and twenty but we're going to see some kind of the valuation up to revaluation sorry until two thousand and fifteen not more than fifteen percent and look two thousand and five you were in was six point eight eight point two visa v. the dollar now is six point eight so we had a value of evaluation of the one over this past five years as well so they do swings of their own base and they're not going to go for their nuclear option selli

twenty as the united states tries to. eat. economy it's good to basically hurt other conny economies in the world we know that the former or the still sitting president of brazil he's going to seoul and he said we're going to battle it out here i mean why should after all the hard work the brazilians have gone through and other developing countries have to bail out the united states again ok i mean can the g. twenty handle this i mean because i'm very dismissive of these organizations because i look at them as talk shops but we're at a at a critical vortex right now in the world economy can that g twenty come through can it can it can it show its worth. the g. twenty was acted with a fair amount of unity back and the early summits when they became a summit. after the economic crisis in two thousand and eight broke they were able to do some changes but both the g twenty and the g eight are operating in a consensus there is no enforcement the g eight has over the years pledged many many programs that have never come through the g

maintained it happened largely by inertia after world war two the united states had most of the world's gold and by one nine hundred fifty the united states had eighty percent of the world's gold stock so the dollar was as good as gold other countries begin to accumulate dollars because until one thousand nine hundred eighty one they could exchange them for gold once the united states start converting the dollars into gold people really didn't have enough of a foreign currency all. in their foreign reserves there's no way in the world that america can ever pay the foreign government debt that it owes because it's running a military deficit a capital account deficit and a trade deficit so what is the point of any country holding more dollars in the central bank if it can never get paid and there's a basic mathematical principle that can't be paid won't be so other countries are trying to prevent getting more dollars and other trying to circumvent the dollar that's why in the last month china has negotiated currency swaps with turkey india brazil malaysia russia that's what the meetings a

i mean, japan is obviously a great partner of the united states in the asia-pacific region. japan and the united states share so many values in terms of commitment to the rule of law, being democracies. it could do more, we think, to stimulate direct foreign investment. unfortunately, if you look at the oecd countries, foreign direct investment into japan is only about 4% of japanese gdp and that is the low of the average of oecd countries. but looking particularly in this year of japan's leader ship of apec and next year to the u.s. leadership, we think apec will stimulate japan's embracing an inclusive trade architecture in the asia pacific can actually stimulate trade and growth and by doing that i think it will very much be in line with president obama export initiative. >> reporter: the accj has urged japan to join the trans-pacific partnership pact, otherwise known as tpp, but some argue that this could adversely affect industries in japan, such as japanese agriculture. what are your thoughts on this? >> well, we believe the tppp would be a very effective mechanism for

the united states was responsible for 14 overseas military installations. today that number exceeds 1,000. how did we get from 14? >> guest: that is the story of the american empire and the united states was i think like 17th in terms of the military ranking before world war ii. the army was desperately understaffed. >> host: how much was a result of disillusionment following world war i that world war i had been sold to the american people as a crusade? >> guest: it was the san britain in fact john f. kennedy wrote his thesis that was made into a book, ye england slept. england slept because it didn't want to know anymore about armaments and the tragedy of world war i to. but once the japanese attacked pearl harbor, the whole scenario changed, and what i found so fascinating looking back at fdr was the way that the united states during is all felt so incredibly quickly to fighting not only a world war, but a world war on how to frostily separated fronts in the pacific and europe. >> host: it's interesting because, well, first of all would you acknowledge th

from if you if you look at it from the perspective of a number of really serious analysts in the united states well you will hear an entirely different story the story is the united states is essentially on its own why do we have to have a budget that basically and mounts to the combined defense budgets of the rest of the wall isn't that really this time for the united states to give notice to its allies including the west europeans saying look you know intent here is not right now but in ten years you're going to be on your own so nato certainly is in a very precarious situation there are many missions that it could undertake there are many pressing causes that cry out for action but it's not entirely sure what nato can really do and whether the united states will be still in nato ten years hence when you think about that martin in london ok i mean you can just kind of put it very flat out there i mean what is the use of it i mean irrespective of your opinion about the war in afghanistan the american led war i mean nato is in a shambles i mean it is absolutely in a shambles and it's going to

good for the economy of the united states. we join together across party lines to commend and support the efforts of the u.s. bid committee to bring the world cup competition to the united states in 2022. i reserve the balance of my time and i have no further speakers. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentlewoman from california. ms. watson: mr. speaker, i have no further requests for time and i resevere the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman reserves. mr. manzullo: i yield back. ms. watson: i yield the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the question is will the house suspend the rules and agree to house resolution 327 as amended. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the concurrent resolution is agreed to. and without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. without objection, the title is amended. for what purpose does the gentleman from washi

present day is congress was concerned that such a child may not have the requisite connection to the united states. they may have a connection to the parent, but may not have a connection to the united states, and thus they wanted to grant citizenship. then it was to requirme residency of the parent as a -- to require residency of the parent as a tails man -- tailsman. where you have unwe had parents, in 1409-5, what congress did was to follow general principles of the law of illegitimacy. if a father ledge mates a child, it is as if a child was born in a marriage, and the rule of 1401 with respect to marriage applies. that is true whether both parents are citizens or in a mixed marriage situation. if a father legitimates a child , then the child benefits from the rule that if either parent was present in the united states before birth, they are a citizen. they don't have to satisfy the one-year unbroken residency requirement under 1409-c. if it is mixed parentage and the father legitimates, then the rule of mixed parentage applies as if they will be married at the outset. it is a perfectly sensib

to-- rival to the united states. >> is that acceptable to the united states that you know? >> i think to the united states we have today, absolutely. i any it's hillary clinton was sitting here she would say that is exactly what we want. >> a partnership with europe. >> yes. >> rose: we're not a senior partner, we're both -- >> well, let's leave that, as vague. senior, whatever, they will economies of equal size. they are massive. >> rose: but the growth rate of the united states economy is a bit higher expectation than the growth rate of the european economy. >> you know what, and also in military power there is no comparison. so it's going to be doing slightly different things. but maybe when it comes to afghanistan or pakistan actually the civilian side is at least as important as what the military can do. >> rose: and tell me what it is that europe is prepared to do in pakistan and afghanistan. >> well, europe gives more than half the official development aid in the whole world. and in civil kwan reconstruction as in the balance begans-- balkans, on january dam ree type

than countries the united states promoted regime change in. i think in the intermodal process goes forward in the air on washington needs to exercise strategic patience. this is in the title of my report and we need to do nothing that is going to get in the way of this political evolution. ultimately your mom is going to assume its rightful place as a major regional power that contributes to the peace and prosperity of its citizens and the world. i will leave it there. >> thank you, barbara peaden guinn to let you take a little breather and ask the first question if i made that i'm going to pose to the co-chairs. senator and ambassador eizenstat, as opposed to strategic patients, they're appears to have been within the last week or so some sign of strategic and patience with in the corridors of washington. a colin "the washington post" appeared to suggest wrapping up the war wasn't actually going to war might be a good thing for president obama to undertake in order to help the economy, and then senator gramm has been talking also about the nee

this is in or was important region for the united states. again, if you think about, i mentioned, the first trip of the secretaries was to asia but the first meeting the president had with any heads of state was a meeting with president calderÓn before the inauguration. president obama's inauguration. and we've had a very sustained level in mexico. the secretary has twice participated in oes meetings. we had extensive travel to the region and we had a note of the key leaders in the region in the united states. the president just met with billy elected president of columbia in new york during the general assembly. i as i said was just in colombia for my second visit and the president had a chance to talk with the newly elected president of brazil just a few days ago. so we see enormous opportunities and a real i think transformative environment in latin america. and what is significant about that is that we believe there's an opportunity in this region, not going to work together on common challenges, but to learn from each other, that it's no

between india and the united states. -- long live the partnership between india and the united states. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> president of, before the indian parliament earlier today. -- president obama before the indian parliament earlier today. later she will attend a state dinner. tomorrow the president heads to indonesia where he will give a speech. then he will go to south korea on wednesday. he will speak to troops on thursday, veterans day. the president will hold a closing news conference on friday wrapping up his asian t our. he will then return to washington on sunday. >> the c-span networks provide coverage of politics, coverapoll affairs, and non-fiction books. find our content any time through c-span video library. we dixie's ban on their road with our local bus and content vehicle. -- we provide coverage of the road with our bus and content vehicle. as republicans prepare for the new majority in the house,

you know, wants the united states developed the atomic weapon. i mean, people talked about disarmament, but before you could disarm someone else's bomb , so really out of necessity, the united states became not any competent in world war ii, but the great democratic economy hegemony of the world war. postcode you are a new disparate companies does that give you insight into the imperial mindsets and with that one of the factors of the american century postwar? the relative withdrawal of britain from that role. >> guest: absolutely. i don't think i could've written a book. a search they wouldn't have the arrogance to undertake it because a lot of people said this is rather ambitious to capture the american presidents. i'd written quite deeply about two american presidents, jfk and bill clinton. >> host: is make sure our viewers know you've written about young jfk, a book is certainly stirred a fair amount of controversy and a two volume biography of bill clinton, including the clinton presidency. of course inner multivolume biography, you certainly

since 1948, pakistan has been a strategic partner of the united states. and we have been with you all these years for 42 years, right up to 1989, very clearly. we launched a jihad against the soviet union, the united states and pakistan, because we wanted to withdraw mujahedin from the world, 25,000-30,000 from almost all muslim countries. so this continued as a teacher relationship with the united states, and continued since 1948, especially in these 10 years, we fought a war together in afghanistan. for 10 long years, this jihad was wages. the elites of afghanistan abandoned afghanistan for the united states and europe. it was spearheaded by the militant groups. in a negative aspect, also, the glue that held afghanistan together, the ethnic groups, translates into a national coventant. this group, after the king was deposed by the soviets, was no more. therefore, when we talk of political revolution, we are talking of a new national covenant, homegrown national covenant, giving the pashtuns the dominant position in government. for this period of 1979-89,

state of the union." i'm candy crowley in washington. up next for our viewers here in the united states, "fareed zakaria gps." >>> this is "gps," the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i'm fareed zakaria. this week we start a crucial debate, one that will decide whether the united states can start on a path to growth. we've got short-term problems, mainly because consumers remain cautious and mired in debt. the government can only do so much and only for so long to boost the economy through spending and tax cuts and low interest rates. fundamentally, the u.s. government has to create an economic climate that convinces consumers and investors and businesses that america is open for business. and that means getting our house in order. the fiscal reform commission appointed by president obama has presented a set of proposals from its two chairs, republican alan simpson and democrat erskine bowles. they're smart, centrist, and sensible. i don't agree with all of them, but there's enough in there to begin a conversation that could le

asia. -- there is a lot of concern that the united states means other countries harm. we see that a lot in central asia. the u.s. presence there they don't see as legitimate, they don't see it as being endorsed by the united nations. china is not injured into security efforts in afghanistan -- china is not contributing to security efforts in afghanistan. they don't see us as a trust for the actors in central asia -- as trust with the actors and central asia. they see a different model were they would like a more consensus-driven approach that is more encompassing. and unfortunately, one that potentially excludes the united states. that is where the u.s. needs to push back, partly because our presence in these organizations were the chinese have a dominant presence is an important way to show the chinese and other countries that our intentions are generally positive. host: steve is joining us on the democratic line. caller: my comment is simply, i believe that china is in a lot of ways wiser than we are because they know history better than we are. china has very little

breaking an agreement there is no agreement there is yet another broken promise that unfortunately the united states has been conducting the plumber say for the last fifty years deals for other people to follow the united states that puts itself over and above the agreements the g twenty. reached a still though by giving more voting power to emerging nations you know clearly there's been a shift in the balance of power in the world that is starting to be reflected in global governing bodies giving a country a voice in the i.m.f. is like telling an ambassador you can go to times square and you can go to make refine and you can yell to times square it doesn't make any difference at all i am a philosophy is a very pro-u.s. philosophy. states has a veto power within the i.m.f. the loss of. it is that in order to increase the economic surplus you have to reduce living standards and you have to impose austerity what about the g twenty then where does that fit in that doesn't have a body of theory that is based on economic austerity for the rest of the world and a free lunch for the united states u.s. pres

help the united states currency. it would bring money into the treasury. do they want to get that stuff with the chinese? and they are now the second- largest economy and that they hold all of this american debt. i do not know. that is a decision that needs to be looked at by this administration and congress. host: 10 more minutes. new york is next. good morning to robert on our independent line. caller: lately i have been hearing a lot about jobs and how we will become more competitive with places like india and china for middle class jobs. i am wondering if the president will be addressing how we will compete more so we are not -- companies, even though they are investing over there, will not be losing a lot of jobs over here, these middle-class, white collar jobs to countries overseas? guest: the president is on his bully pulpit right now telling americans that they have to get behind him in an effort to prevent the american companies that are going this so called "outsourcing." you hire people in india to run thes

let's compare it to the united states, ok? i mean, every 10 years, we have a census, and then the legislatures redistrict, and if the republicans have power in the legislature and governorship in a state, then they change and redraw the districts, ok? there was a little bit of that in venezuela, nothing compared to what we have here, ok? >> roger? roger? so he's saying it's just gerrymandering. >> the point is 50% of the national votes for the opposition--may i just finish my point? and if you said that what i said was untrue, tell me, is it correct that the opposition got roughly 50% of the votes and gets roughly 40% of the seats in the national assembly? >> yeah, that's absolutely right, and you know... >> and that is absolutely unfair. >> in the u.k., the labour party has gotten 24% of the vote and gotten a majority of parliament, and you've had worse discrepancies in spain. and you have a discrepancy in 2008 in the united states. >> but look. you and i are americans. we're foreigners. >> yeah. >> our wish should be for the

present the united states will remain in asia as a major power. on is, you know, there is constant concern that the united states always at some point will disengage from asia, because of its own domestic issues, because of the two wars that are taking place in other parts of the world, the united states as a security partner is always present. but as you know, being a great power is not just about one thing that a great power can do. it's about security, but it's also about economics and it's about providing collective goods. and right now i think there's some concern as a result of this trip, although i think it was a great trip in terms of optics, i think there's some concern about whether the united states is still going to play in asia. >> and whether it has the capacity and the domestic constituency to fulfill the role that increasingly asian countries are looking to it to fulfill. we're going to have to close on that. thank you very much. suhasini haida in new delhi, victor cha, jason tedjasukmana, and yoshihisa komori. back in a moment. ord

from the russians united states and all the free sure so if. you think it works in this respect re a water content. concerning the remaining technical issues including you should related to. the customs union our custom unit is below us and for the stone of your work. or over our membership in the future but that's technical it's political if you're talking about protectionism while many central banks across the world are expanding their presence on the currency market and define the boundaries the russian central bank quite on the contrary has made the ruble even more flexible don't you fear that this might make the ruble too vulnerable and open the door to an influx of speculative money and most of the countries that we compare also serious. to much more flexible exchange rate systems before our system is much tighter than most of the countries so we're coming to a normal. station. a more flexible exchange rate system. we'll create. a much more flexible environment for central bank to conduct its monetary policy. and also for. companies and pe

help the united states currency. it would bring money into the treasury. do they want to get that stuff with the chinese? and they are now the second- largest economy and that they hold all of this american debt. i do not know. that is a decision that needs to be looked at by this administration and congress. host: 10 more minutes. new york is next. good morning to robert on our independent line. caller: lately i have been hearing a lot about jobs and how we will become more competitive with places like india and china for middle class jobs. i am wondering if the president will be addressing how we will compete more so we are not -- companies, even though they are investing over there, will not be losing a lot of jobs over here, these middle-class, white collar jobs to countries overseas? guest: the president is on his bully pulpit right now telling americans that they have to get behind him in an effort to prevent the american companies that are going this so called "outsourcing." you hire people in india to run thes

the united nations if you can just buy yourself a lot either. well i don't think that israel's buying itself a lobby i think that many people in the united states realize that the way israel goes is the way the united states in the west goes and it's made very clear by the palestinians in the bible most of the muslim world that they see that you know israel is the little satan but the the united states in the rest of the world is the great satan and i think everybody sees that very very clearly the protecting israel is also protecting western interests israel is a democracy is an island of free speech and and freedoms in the middle east where you don't have that anywhere else so it's not really just about israel or it's or it's buying any weaponry it's you know it's very clear here that the world is really protecting itself israel is kind of the front line to prevent another afghanistan and iraq kind of situation where western people are dying in a big morass in here israel is willing to do it to protect the west as well so i don't think it has anything to do with buying israel uf it's our soldiers that are going to be doing the dirty work for a

was an optional war it wasn't about defending american interests it wasn't about protecting the united states and therefore it didn't necessarily have to help and you say in your book that the story of the united states is drawing to a clause close and you call the u.s. is army empire and especially in the light of the recent elections when we see republicans again enjoying their power it really feels like a circle of republicans democrats republicans democrats where will that change come from that you talk about well it's certainly not going to come within the existing system what we're seeing now that you just referred to this flip flopping the two parties are so close together on the overall ideological framework from left to right that there there's not enough differentiation so big swaths of the population are not don't feel represented at all which is why are voters. turnout is among the lowest in the industrialized world the change is not going to come from the d's in the r.'s the democrats and the republicans and the fact that people are constantly just voting against the party in pow

than what i did sort of anyway you know russia russia certainly has on iran recently supported the united states on sanctions and of course president medvedev of signed this decree. banning the sale of the s three hundred missiles to iran which was certainly i think a major gesture toward the united states i think a number of people recognize that one challenge though i think is that there was over the period of many years of longstanding perception that developed related to russia's cooperation with their wrong on the bush era nuclear reactor two arms sales from russia to iran. russia obviously in the past had often been really reluctant to support the united states on iran and i think it takes. on one level it just takes some time for people to. move a little bit away from those longer held views says paul sonars of the executives' director of the nixon center spotlight will be back with can do things to be in that in the minutes they. those so many years of. some former prisoners. are still a lot. as well and good fortune. goes so many years and. some are hoping to find the same. others take

expand into the mission of the united states and potential. protectionist measures in other countries to make sure that the national currency markets are stable do you have a feeling that maybe in the recent summit there has been a certain failure to address our long term issues that the world economy needs and the focus is rather on the sort of short term responses to the events that happened to be happening during or around the time that the g twenty summit is taking place well i think the approach is quite natural in the station leaders faced just a few months ago were on the global economy and was hit by the crisis response immediate response was the main concern and main focus so for a new leader and for a collective decision making as well. just twenty will gradually move to a long term agenda and it's happening call that idea but it will take time it's still developing institution developing former leaders just to each other and. i think they will focus on the longer term issues more and more including the soul side what is russia expect

how about the united states? i'm interested in a number comparison with 50. >> the u.s., having a longer history in space and a much larger budget, has probably put up something i think on the order of 500 satellites. >> who are -- are those satellites that china has in space, are they civilian or military or dual use? >> they're very much dual use. china's space program at this point is mostly oriented spacect recently, very recently. >> uh-huh. >> will you describe the spacecraft? accelerated from >> the manned capsule is probably capable to our gemini series. it's the second manned launch. it's longer, wider and heavier than the soyuz and it's in fact quite a bit more capable than the soyuz. >> is it as big as a standard public bus? >> it is about 25 feet long. so i have to admit, i'm not sure how long a bus is. >> what about the interior of the vessel? >> it's quite cramped. and some of the video we've seen so far put out by the chinese suggest that much accelerated from w module is crd indeed. last night they

congressional elections which changed the political atmosphere and changed the situation here in the united states congress with the republican party gaining much more seats both in the chamber in the united states senate. chamber of representatives it means that all of them all of the new elected congressman today has been criticized criticizing obama for. policy and that is why what president obama and his administration can do is to persuade congress to regard this issue and through defy the treaty during this so-called lame duck session of congress which starts the morrow on the fifteenth sold in november on the other hand this would be a precedent because such a major treaties which include issues of the. nuclear weapons never had been decided during the lame duck duck sessions of the american congress so yes there are obstacles but president obama pledged promised to push congress to make a decision just during the recent session so there are obstacles but there seems to be a genuine positive attitude when it comes to the hopeful actions of person but we're there and president obama you are

>> well, i think you have to take religion seriously in the united states and i think that's the huge difference in united states and the netherlands. you've got the one most religious and secular countries in europe in the e netherlands. if you look at some basic and rntion kes do you believe the bible is the word of god or do you believe in heaven or do you believe in hell, do you believe in miracles? i think that matters when it comes to all these issues. >> the expansion of secular rights not only in the netherlands else why in europe that you speak of, and you see that expansion taking place in the united states. again going back to this core issue, what's cash dash is there any additional evidence of that? we have a church state wall between the two. doesn't that function pretty effectively to keep out influences which may diminish yew bumper sticker watty and force of our religious moraliub religious morality. but generally i think to look at a little bit of a paradox or a contribution what people believe and actual behavior. professing in religious values we also look what the

guns actually are these days absolutely and there's really only two tunes being played one by the united states and one by the rest of the g twenty everyone's in opposition to what the united states is doing in terms of quantitative easing but the us continues to do it anyway of course simply there is no real strong argument against them there's no there's no binding agreement of these other countries to fight back yeah talking of nothing big nothing binding about what the g twenty does all thinks it through at the end of the day what difference does it make what they decide. well there's not much difference what the g twenty decides on you know over the next couple days the bilateral conversations that are going on today are far more important if president obama and president hu jintao can come to any sort of conclusion on these issues that would be far more progressive and far more helpful to the global economy but to be honest this is really a set of meetings that are going to achieve much sounds a bit dull do you think there will be any headlines coming out of it at all the next twenty four

>> why don't we celebrate our system in the united states? the fact we're a civilized nation unlike the majority of nations in the world. this guy got a fair trial in the united states. anywhere else it would have been a kangaroo court. he would have been convicted before the trial began. what's opponents of the president were seeking here. they wanted a conviction without any evidence, with nothing. the judge ruled that the evidence obtained to present in this case was obtained illegally, which meant it would not be allowed to be used. ie, it was obtained through torture. that's bedrock in united states criminal law, civil and federal. if you obtain evidence illegally you can't use it. that's what happened here. the government got their hands tied. they could not use evidence that they obtained through torture methods, therefore this courthouse, which has about a 93% conviction rate, got acquitted on almost all the charges. >> avery, you're in agreement with some of this but not all of it based on your nods and your level of exasperation. >>

since 1948, pakistan has been a strategic partner of the united states. and we have been with you all these years for 42 years, right up to 1989, very clearly. we launched a jihad against the soviet union, the united states and pakistan, because we wanted to withdraw mujahedin from the world, 25,000-30,000 from almost all muslim countries. so this continued as a teacher relationship with the united states, and continued since 1948, especially in these 10 years, we fought a war together in afghanistan. for 10 long years, this jihad was wages. the elites of afghanistan abandoned afghanistan for the united states and europe. it was spearheaded by the militant groups. in a negative aspect, also, the glue that held afghanistan together, the ethnic groups, translates into a national coventant. this group, after the king was deposed by the soviets, was no more. therefore, when we talk of political revolution, we are talking of a new national covenant, homegrown national covenant, giving the pashtuns the dominant position in government. for this period of 1979-89,