sheer, who s our assistant secretary of defense for east asia in the pacific. you know that david was had come back from hanoi to do this job. he was our u.s. ambassador there. david is an expert on china and southeast asia. i think for many of us who are sort of in the trenches every day on these issues, couldn t think of a better person for the pentagon to put into this role. next to him is one of the top southeast asiaenists in the united states, and he also is singapore s ambassador to the united states. aspoke. he was most recently singapore s ambassador to indonesia. he was in the past has been singapore s ambassador also to australia. and to quaul la lumpur and has a long history in singapore foreign affairs working on asia-related affairs. and finally, a good friend and a real hero of southeast asia and asian policy in the senate is chris bros. he works with senator mccain in senator mccain s office. previous before that he was senior staffer in the senate armed ser
almost 20 percent. you can reduce wheat pit technician but 20 percent hit by introducing very high efficient coal-fired plants. at the same time, this kind of high-tech, highly efficient coal-fired plant indicates a supercritical plan, it takes almost 1 billion to introduced those kind of like you would see. it is almost 40 percent more expensive compared to the conventional. if you compare the total cost, for example, is almost the same in the case subcritical. this initial cost should be financed. i need to encourage the countries to introduce possible technology and concerning coal power plants . and by doing so whee can avoid the deployment of load efficient coal-fired plant which may be supported by finance. if you can effectively encourage them to introduce political far plants. reduce by 20 parts of most. and in this situation is very important function hiss , first of all, there s a very high efficient cold power plant in operation, especially supercritical with very
capability. so i don t, i wouldn t regard any iran agreement on enrichment as a precedent although i do believe that if the p5-plus-one countries managed to achieve an agreement with iran this would improve prospects for a productive negotiation with the north. on the other hand fail lure to reach agreement between p5-plus-one and iran i think would further reduce the probability of effective negotiations with the dprk. but the subject of this of this panel is korea and major powers. picking up on your cue, ambassador park, i will talk about north korea and major powers. of the north korean relations with major powers clearly its relationship with china is the most important. china is the main supplier of food and fuel to north korea. it is its biggest trading partner and china has made a conscientious and persistent efforts to get north korea back on the path of denuclearization but china has been terribly frustrated in its dealings with north korea over recent years. it has
dialogue can contribute and not fashion to peace and prosperity in a very important region of the world. and they can also stimulate and form and other faith public debate on the risks and opportunities that policymakers in washington, seoul and beijing are dealing with. to get us started, we have a distinguished american official who was very much involved in policymaking here in washington and also in the stewardship of u.s. relations with the republic of korea, people s republic of china and other important nations in that region. danny russell, whom i ve had the honor of knowing and working with for many years as assistant secretary of state for east asia and pacific affairs. he recently within the last couple of weeks returned from travels with president obama to china, burma and australia. he is going to provide us with an overview of u.s. interests and policies in the region. so danny, welcome back to brookings and thanks for giving us the view from washington and the
and deny they are doing it. i ve been on business trips and i see them come into the economic zone and using violence. i think the truth of all this is to paraphrase, because i m conscious that you have a program to attend to. i have to be out the door in a minute. i get the question. i think if you were to go through the analysis of each of the disputes from north to south, each has its own internal character isti characteristics. i would have different resolutions on each of them. having spent some time looking at the underpinning legalness concern i concerning this and the positions of all seven parties, this is a highly variable feast. it s not just that we have chosen to be neutral. there s a reason to be neutral. that is that the underpinning legal cases are if they came to jurisdiction, are so complex. if we had another hour, we could go through each of these individually. i think that would be tiresome for people in the gathering. rather than have an adjudicat n