in one critically important area, trilateral cooperation, to , thatith north korea cooperation is not what it was and is not what it should be. problematic r.o.k. japan times have allowed suspicions to arrive in seoul about japan's to dealing with north korea, and pyongyang, seeing an advantage, seemed eager to leverage the gap and perhaps deepen the divide .etween tokyo and seoul the complicated japan rok is also being eyed very carefully by china, which, as others have suggested, probably sees an advantage coming from current korea-japan tensions. the prc has made very clear in recent months that it regards the u.s.-centered alliance system in the asia-pacific region as an anachronism and is no longer relevant to the region's current security concerns. some chinese officials have even suggested that a china-centric security system based on an asia for the asians approach should replace the network of u.s. alliances in the region. leaders in tokyo and seoul should reflect very carefully on whether they are in ability deal with the issues between them -- their inability to deal with t

defense trilateral in washington. earlier, the director general dialogue and north korea was also a welcome sign that these two neighbors understand the importance of ensuring that they stay on the same page. trilateral military dialogue by defense chiefs that took place in the margins of the exercise in the pacific was also valuable as were the japanese assurances that were provided to korea in that dialogue about the scope and limitations of japan's new collective self-defense doctrine. includingdialogue bilaterally, at the ministerial level, would be valuable particularly in enhancing transparency and resolving any lingering questions and concerns that seoul may have about japanese defense planning. such dialogue is also important because we are on the cusp of a qualitative change in the nature of the threat posed by north korea. the need to refine and enhance our deterrence of north korea will be a major task in the coming months and years and that will require new levels of bilateral and trilateral security coope

require newll levels of bilateral and trilateral security cooperation between and among us.e north korean threat is evolving in a dangerous new direction and the missiles with which to deliver those will all serve -- alter regional security dynamics in troubling ways. besides raising the prospect that the north might use or threaten to use these weapons, development of the capability will increase proliferation and were raise questions about the validity and effectiveness of the u.s. extended deterrent and our commitment to defend allies and it might even spur debate in korea and japan about the need for their own nuclear deterrent. such prospect, however realistic or remote argue strongly in favor of a renewed bilateral and trilateral dialogue about the nature of this new threat and the efficacy and credibility of the u.s. deterrent and defense commitments. i have every reason to believe the u.s. will want to have such a dialogue. as we look to the future, the other main challenge will emanate from china. they are channeling resources to the military over its uncertain ends

in one critically important area, trilateral cooperation to deal with north korea. that cooperation is not what it as and is not what it should be. problematic our ties have allowed suspicions to arise bout seoul and kim jong seeing an advantage seems eager to leverage that gap and perhaps deepen the divide between tokyo and seoul. the complicated japan relationship is being eyed very carefully by china which others have suggested here probably sees an advantage to be gained from current teppingses. the p.r.c. has made very clear in recent months that it regards it as an arackism and is no longer relevant to the current security concerns. some have even suggested that a security system based on an asia for the a'sans approach should replace the u.s. alignses in the region. leaders in tokyo and seoul should reflect on whether their inability to deal with the issues between them may be creating a tactical or strategic opening for a beijing that has developed an aler ji to a u.s. led security architecture. i would also suggest that current difficulties in relations und

as i mentioned, in the united nations 20 or in beijing, why have another trilateral meeting? think we should talk about something beyond our security issue or strategic issue. we can talk about our economic structure in asia including the financial structure. the chinese leader made a proposal in seoul about asian interest structure investment bank, aiip. b,. there is a concern in the united states about the chinese proposal because the u.s. will work with the world bank and the asian development bank is in operation. the korean president did not make any commitment. she said let me think about it. i think we can talk about this position or proposal by china about setting up aiib in a trilateral meeting about whether this is a meaningful proposal and would it help the asian financial situation and the asian development or it works in discord with the existing financial system in asia and in the world. i think this is a relevant topic for three countries to discuss. before we make our decision, we need to make sure that the chinese proposal is in line with the global governmen

now, do we hear about the trilateral commission? yeah, we hear about it all the time from conspiracy theorists who believe it's a vast organization engaged in all this subterfuge with nobody able to give evidence of what they've done. it's an organization involved in policy analysis and implementation and that's it. host: you write about people who believe in conspiracy theories. what does the research tell us? guest: it's one of those things that where you expect to read doesn't turn out to be true. the most interesting thing is that conspiracy theorists are more likely to hold contradictory thoughts in their heads at the same time. meaning, for example, people that believe princess diana was murdered also believe that she's alive. people who believe bin la den is dead also believe he's alive. it's hard to comprehend how people can believe the exact opposite things but that's what the research shows. and, i mean, there's a lot of different things from the research. if you believe one conspiracy theory, you're more likely to believe

as i mentioned, in the united beijing, why in have another trilateral meeting?i think we should talk about something beyond our security issue or strategic issue. we can talk about our economic structure in asia including the financial structure. the chinese leader made a asianal in seoul about interest structure investment bank, aiip. b,. there is a concern in the united states about the chinese proposal because the u.s. will work with the world bank and the asian development bank is in operation. the korean president did not make any commitment. it.said let me think about i think we can talk about this position or proposal by china about setting up aiib in a trilateral meeting about whether this is a meaningful proposal and would it help the asian financial situation and the asian development or it works in discord with the existing financial system in asia and in the world. i think this is a relevant topic for three countries to discuss. before we make our decision, we need to make sure that the chinese proposal is in line with the global government's and the

the relationship along with our trilateral relations is crucial in solving the korean conflict. we have to work together with our partners in the region. the conflict has multilateral implications and is therefore not only of u.s. interests. as the world's greatest democracy we must take a tempered stance with the international community. north korea must view our partnership as a regional effort we need to make positive steps towards denuclearization. we should also encourage north korea to -- north korea should be sincere with its commitment and allow inspectors to renew their activity in the country. i am also concerned with their deplorable north -- deplorable human rights records. they are subject to chronic starvation and eight is no public health system. the u.s. should remain a strong supporter in the global community. mr. chairman, with that i would like to we yield back. >> the gentleman from california is recognized for an opening statement. >> welcome home. thank you for holding these hearings. it was just a few months ago we were at the dnc and discussing north kore

are okay japan trilateral cooperation sends a powerful message to deterrent to pyongyang. as north korea's last remaining protectorate patron, china has a key role to play in convincing north korea to denuclearize. that is why north korea remains a top of our bilateral agenda with the beijing. secretary kerry raised from there in early july. we welcome the steps the prc is taken to oppose pyongyang's nuclear weapons program. since 2012 china's voted for two new rounds of u.n. sanctions, and last year published a 900 item control list banning the export to north korea. together with allies and partners we seek to show north korea its nuclear program stands in the way of a secure future it says it wants. we continue to increase the cost of its illicit activities by unilaterally tightening sanctions. we were close with the u.n. security council and like-minded partners to ensure full implementation of the four t. security council resolutions. at july 2013 seizure type animal of a huge cache of military gear demonstrates u.n. sanctions are effected. the welfare of north korea'

she said you know this is way it should be federal federalizing ukraine ok having some kind of trilateral trade agreement which perfect sense you know but you know victoria nuland wanted everything it wanted ukraine it wanted need to expand everything maximalist all the time can we go back to november and somehow go back and see if that can work well we can all worse do better than we do now because what has been going on until now was just unacceptable and i completely agree with george when it was initially on a polish was suggested trial a trial negotiations in november last year if it had been accepted by the e.u. which in accepted it things would have been totally different right now and i agree with jim that the biggest costs are for the western community of nations because remember what was did not cancel this association agreement with the you here just postponed it and he said that it would cost you crane one hundred sixty billion euros in fact of course he would be satisfied with a smaller compensation but the you didn't give him a single penny the result was that now that you h

rok japan trilateral cooperation also sends a powerful message of deterrence to pyongyang. as north korea's last remaining protector and patron china has a key role to play in convincing north korea to denuclearize. that is why north korea remains at the top of a bilateral agenda with beijing. secretary kerry raised prominently there in early july. we welcome the steps that piercy has taken to oppose john yang's nuclear weapons program. since 2012 china has voted for two new rounds of u.n. sanctions and last year published a 900 item item control lists banning export to north korea. together with our allies and partners the end partners the seek to show it stands in the way of the secure future it says it wants. we continue to increase the cost of its illicit activities by unilaterally tightening sanctions. we work closely with u.n. security council and like-minded partners to ensure full implementation of the four key security council resolutions. the july 2013 seizure by panama of a huge cache of military gear demonstrates u.n. sanctions are effective. the welfare of nort

manage issues going forward so we can manage the real issues in the relationship as well as the trilateralrelationship with the united states. to lead off the gush and we're very pleased and honored to welcome admiral blair to the stage. former u.s. pacific command and former director of national intelligence and former director of national intelligence. chairman of the board of the peace foundation usa. sps in tokyo was very kind to post dement in tokyo a couple of months ago. front if yous out would like to take a look at it. you can go to our website to find a copy of the speech. he also hosted us and president dement in washington. we are very pleased to be in a position to return the favor and invite admiral blair to the heritage to the foundation to share stock -- thoughts on the stage. admiral blair. >> thanks very much. it is a pleasure to be here to talk about what is a very serious subject. oncepanish philosopher famously remarked that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ringing phrase has generally been taken out of context and use it to justify false

is anything being done to try to counter this trilateral cooperation between these nations. >> well, mr. chairman, russia and north korea, the relationship is very small in terms of trade and some of the stuff moscow announced were basically a recognition of the existing state of affairs. for instance they announced some debt relief for north korea. i don't think anybody in moscow ever expected they'd get that dead repaid so the trade is measured in the few hundreds of millions of dollars a year. they've been talking about some new projects that could -- infrastructure projects. these are longer term undertakings. so far they are still a bit at the margins. so we stay in touch with the rugs. i go out to moscow and try to talk to them about this problem. we have a shared interest in denuclearization. russia is a stakeholder nonproliferation treaty. they don't want north korea to develop nuclear weapons. they are serious about that. right now, i think it's fair to say that the -- the level of agreement we have on strategic issues with russia outweighs the deals we're talking about at t

manage issues going forward so we can manage the real issues in the relationship as well as the trilateral relationship with the united states. to lead off the gush and we're very pleased and honored to welcome admiral blair to the stage. former u.s. pacific command and former director of national intelligence and former director of national intelligence. chairman of the board of the peace foundation usa. sps in tokyo was very kind to post dement in tokyo a couple of months ago. front if yous out would like to take a look at it. you can go to our website to find a copy of the speech. he also hosted us and president dement in washington. we are very pleased to be in a position to return the favor and invite admiral blair to the heritage to the foundation to share stock -- thoughts on the stage. admiral blair. >> thanks very much. it is a pleasure to be here to talk about what is a very serious subject. oncepanish philosopher famously remarked that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ringing phrase has generally been taken out of context and use it to justify false

and this is only and only because of trilateral cooperation between tehran washington and moscow. therefore, you can see if there is real cooperation what can be the result? no one else could convince assad to give up his chemical weapon because the chemical weapon was against the israeli chemical weapon. the refugees, i mean, today really there is a big room between the regional countries, iran, and the u.s. and for humanitarian assistance. we have 9 million refugees displaced. perhaps 50 percent of syria is destroyed. we need the refugees to go back to their home. if there is any possibility of cooperation between iran and the u.s. and syrian first of all, i believe that we need to bring the original powers to corporation. my idea is our five plus p5. --, permanent members of you in security plus five regional $1.1. iran, saudi arabia they need to be together to find a solution for syria. second abcaeleven need to agree on some principal one they're helpless. they don't have any real united opposition to negotiate. some principals like integrity of syrian manhattan, like the rul

and this is only and only because of trilateral cooperation between tehran washington and moscow.herefore, you can see if there is real cooperation what can be the result? no one else could convince assad to give up his chemical weapon because the chemical weapon was against the israeli chemical weapon. the refugees, i mean, today really there is a big room between the regional countries, iran, and the u.s. and for humanitarian assistance. we have 9 million refugees displaced. perhaps 50 percent of syria is destroyed. we need the refugees to go back to their home. if there is any possibility of cooperation between iran and the u.s. and syrian first of all, i believe that we need to bring the original powers to corporation. my idea is our five plus p5. --, permanent members of you in security plus five regional $1.1. iran, saudi arabia they need to be together to find a solution for syria. second abcaeleven need to agree on some principal one they're helpless. they don't have any real united opposition to negotiate. some principals like integrity of syrian manhattan, like the rule

we don't have anything else and this is only because of trilateral cooperation between tehran, washington and us. therefore you can see if there is a real cooperation what can be the result? no one else could convince assad to give up his chemical weapons because his chemical weapons were against israeli chemical weapons. the refugees, today there is a big room between the regional countries iran and the u.s. and the europeans for humanitarian assistance. you have 9 million people, refugees that are displaced. perhaps 50% of syria is destroyed. we need the refugees to go back to their homelands. if there is any possibility of cooperation between iran and the u.s. in syria first of all i believe we need to bring the region of powers to cooperation. my idea is our five plus p5. p5, p5 permanent members of the u.n. security council plus five regional powers. iran and saudi arabia, iraq egypt. they need to sit together to manage to find a solution for syria. second, they need to agree on advance. we cannot rely on syrians. they cannot manage. we don't have any real united opposition to negoti

reiterating russia is ready for a price gas discount as i just outlined and he's agreed on the trilateral meeting with ukraine, but no date has been set just yet. >>> moving on, our uk business editor joins us now. still with us is paul cavanaugh. helia. >> thank god. i know we were all getting better about the state of bankers. me personally, i was the most worried of all. but we've just had o&s data out. this is about bonuses across the entire uk economy. so it's not just bankers. it's talking about the entire economy. and it's saying in the year april 2013, march 2014, bonuses overall were up 12%. that's a massive hike and it's an increasing number in proportion of the overall pay. people are getting bonuses and if you look at bankers bonus webs probably the most controversial part of it, bankers bonuses for that period of time, again, from april 2013 to march 2014, up nearly 14%. up 13.4%. just 15 billion pounds. that's not quite the level of prefinancial crisis. 2007, 2008 where bankers bonuses hit 19 billion pounds, a massive proportion of the financial services pay was given in boe

and this is only and only because of trilateral cooperation between tehran washington and moscow.erefore, you can see if there is real cooperation what can be the result? no one else could convince assad to give up his chemical weapon because the chemical weapon was against the israeli chemical weapon. the refugees, i mean, today really there is a big room between the regional countries, iran, and the u.s. and for humanitarian assistance. we have 9 million refugees displaced. perhaps 50 percent of syria is destroyed. we need the refugees to go back to their home. if there is any possibility of cooperation between iran and the u.s. and syrian first of all, i believe that we need to bring the original powers to corporation. my idea is our five plus p5. --, permanent members of you in security plus five regional $1.1. iran, saudi arabia they need to be together to find a solution for syria. second abcaeleven need to agree on some principal one they're helpless. they don't have any real united opposition to negotiate. some principals like integrity of syrian manhattan, like the rule o

is anything being done to counter this trilateral cooperation between these nations. >> mr. chairman, the russia/north korea relationship is very small in terms of trade and some of the steps that moscow announced were basically recognition of the state of afirst. they announced some debt relief for north korea. nobody in moscow expected they would get that debt repaid to begin with. the trade is measured in a few hundreds of millions of dollars a year. they talked about some new projects that could be of interest. infrastructure projects. these are longer term nunds takings. so farther a bit at the margins. so we stay in touch with the russians. i go out to moscow and talk to them about this problem. we have a shared interest in denuclear beization denuclearization. we may have tactical differences that we'll continue to work on. right now i think it's fair to say that the agreement, the level of agreement we have on strategic issues with russia outweighs some of these deals that you're talking about at the margins now. >> thank you very much. my. >> i'm is expired. gentlem