Money. The usmca is nearing the finish line. U. S. Mexican and canadian trade representatives are in mexico city for a signing ceremony as House Democrats announced they have the votes to approve the trade deal. Adoption of the usmca is one of President Trumps Biggest Campaign promises and would be his biggest bipartisan policy achievement. Trump tweeting this americas great usmca trade bill is looking good. It will be the best and most important trade deal ever made by the usa. Good for everybody. Farmers, manufacturers, energy, unions, tremendous support. Importantly we will finally end our countrys worst trade deal nafta. Edward lawrence is joining us from washington with the latest on this. Edward . Hey, jackie, theres a victory lap going on by the democrats. House Speaker Pelosi says that she received a usmca deal that was a nonstarter and through their negotiations, they turned it into the Gold Standard for trade deals. Listen. Theres no question of course that this trade agreeme
Just an osc body. It is very much one that we hope we have not met yet, but we will have active participation from the services, from the combatant command, so they have that element of hearing from all parts of the department where there are challenges and what is needed to get them. Like most bodies, there are lower working groups that will feed into this on a regular basis and be meeting more often. When i asked richard to talk to that. Just to briefly say, as someone who has cochaired Nuclear Posture, i think my colleagues and we served as the daytoday cochair working group for the bpr, and i think she has been sick and tire of this when we made all these comparisons through the Nuclear Posture review. But as was noted, i think there were some value there in one of the outcomes and the mpr. As we do npr and plantation, a lot of those issues were identified to have a body to go back to to be the lead for implementation for there was a Nuclear Weapons counsel on the case of policy or
Our second panel. We will start with dr. Go paul who is a former executive and author of a book. He will provide an overview of the evolving supply chain landscape. Then we will hear from the next panelist a senior fellow with the trustee chair and China Business and economics. She will address the rapid rise of we very much appreciate both of your testimony. Why dont we begin with you . Can you hear me . Now we cant. Talk backwards. Ok. Something is happening with our sound with our witness. Do you suppose we could correct that . Because i know i cant. Why dont we move to miss mizzoco . Could you begin while we fix that . Thank you. Thank you, members of the commission and staff of the commission for the opportunity to be here. I have been asked to discuss electric vehicle sector of china. Let me start by saying like with other Clean Technologies like solar panels, china is important in the eb supply chain. Vehicles made in china are affordable and of increasing quality. I can hear yo
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