Here in san francisco. The manufacturing. The logistics. We work with Tech Companies and hardware startups. This is in exciting space to be. Back in 2000, you are mr. China. Are you mr. China. For anyone who has been in china, you know very quickly that you know very little about china. I know as little about china today as i did when i went the first day. It is such a big space and so complex. We had fantastic people on the ground who were able to execute. That is what we do. Does it matter if you are mr. China anymore . What has happened over the past decade is that you used to go to china and build one million things. A million routers ipads. Now you can just told one thing. What is happening that is allowing this to change . I dont think it is a geographic thing. I think we track data of our products that moved from production lines right through to the consumers home. We try to replace inventory with data. It is not necessary about making one million things, we just want to make w
We talked earlier about transparency. He had conducted a 16 month secret investigation that people didnt learn about until three or four months ago. Being a cuban, i dont know why the president thinks that by talking to rile castro that they can determine the future of cuba. The future of cuba it belongs the future of cuba belongs to the cuban people. The president announced a policy that is full of misunderstanding and missed conceptions. He read something from the teleprompter that are nonsense, i am sorry to say. When people say that the president wants to reestablish relations with cuba, the United States has had diplomatic relations with cuba since 1977. The American Mission in cuba is the largest islamic omatic nation in cuba and it has been for many years. There are more american diplomats in cuba than canadians or any other. I also said that the notion of saying, is something hasnt worked, we have to do Something Else. The Something Else has to work. Just because something does
Im going to introduce them when i introduce the governor for his remarks but you should know theyve been listening and speaking with a wide variety from stakeholders from the grass roots level up and theyll continue working hard until their recommendations are finalized in june. The dean see conducted a postelection poll with 100,000 of our supporters. The association of state democratic chairs you should ray buckleys leadership conducted a survey of its membership and each of the Campaign Committees all contributed research and information to this task force and we will continue to Work Together. The work has reached into all 50 states to look at what it takes to build, run, and win political campaigns in america but the bottom line of what we food to do is educate people who are not in this room voters Donor Community leaders and activists and we need to do it through every channel possible from Voter Registration to candidate recruitment and training. As the dnc, it is our responsib
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So now id like to turn over the floor to the people that are going to make that happen today, ask the tough questions, give us some answers. And id like to thank you everyone today for joining us today and hand over to tom bright from abrookings who is going to chair the panel on the economy and europes future. So, thank you. And thank you, again, everybody for joining us. Thank you. Im a fellow here with the International Order and strategy at brookings. And im particularly delighted to be able to chair the first panel. Id like to thank fionna and Jeremy Shapiro for asking me to do it. And its a particular privilege to do it at a conference in honor of clara who i knew for the past two years here, was really a wonderful colleague. And shes sorely missed. And i know several people here knew her and on the panel. I think she would be very interested in the topic today. Not just because of the events in ukraine, but also because she has such a strong passion for European Union Foreign Po