Sheer, whos 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, couldnt 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 singapores ambassador to the United States. Aspoke. He was most recently singapores ambassador to indonesia. He was in the past has been singapores ambassador also to australia. And to quaul la lumpur and has a long history in Singapore Foreign affairs working on asiarelated 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 mccains office. Previous before that he was senior staffer in the Senate Armed Services committee. A
And deny they are doing it. Ive 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 im 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. Its not just that we have chosen to be neutral. Theres 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 adjudication, i poi
Ranking officials including two Vice President s. Authorities say the men took the money in exchange for swaying the outcome of the bodys past president ial election, the selection of host nations for the world cup and broadcasting rights. Balloter said he vowed to find a way to fix things. Balloter is running for his fifth term in office. Reactions are coming in from around the world. Former brazil striker and current senator romario slammed the officials. Translator the most corrupt body in soccer is the Brazilian Federation and worldwide its fifa. The president of uefa met with reporters ahead of the fifa congress. Uefa is under fifas umbrella. Platini said its time for change. Enough is enough. Fifas president ial election is scheduled for later on friday. Vietnam has reacted sharply to chinas recently issued biennial white paper on national defense. The report rules out any compromises on territorial disputes in the south china sea. A forum on the security in the Asia Pacific Regi
Authorities indicted nine high ranking officials including two Vice President s. Authorities say the men took the money in exchange for swaying the outcome of the bodys past president ial election, the selection of host nations for the world cup and broadcasting rights. Balloter said he vowed to find a way to fix things. Balloter is running for his fifth term in office. Reactions are coming in from around the world. Former brazil striker and current senator romario slammed the officials. Translator the most corrupt body in soccer is the Brazilian Federation and worldwide its fifa. The president of uefa met with reporters ahead of the fifa congress. Uefa is under fifas umbrella. Platini said its time for change. Enough is enough. Fifas president ial election is scheduled for later on friday. Vietnam has reacted sharply to chinas recently issued biennial white paper on national defense. The report rules out any compromises on territorial disputes in the south china sea. A forum on the se
Group or not and in the future we should not so heavily rely upon some governments input with regards to whether an organization that happens to be operating within their territory should be designated or no. I think there is definitely a lesson here. I think we will be quicker to act to make designations based on our own assessments earlier on based on this. My last question has to do with a broader theme regard to the risks of global jihadists and terrorists atlarge. There was a narrative not long ago al qaeda was on the run. It was dissipating. In fact a new risk has emerged. Want to rely on the testimony of director clapper before the Senate Committee of intelligence where i sit. Decentralization of Al Qaeda Movement led to new Power Centers and increase in threats by networks of likeminded extremists to multiple groups to which its clear aqm, there appears to be some links and ties or some elements with boko haram. My question is what do we know at this point about that . Do we ha