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Programs pop. Global leaders, city, delight and united airlines, corporate partners, we would also like to thank our coorganizer, the young china watchers. It is a great flour be working with them for tonights program. Now it is my pleasure to welcome miss vicki lai, the cofounder and head of the new york chapter of young china watcher ford her brief remarks. [applause] good evening, everyone. Im vic year and lai and im the head of the young china watch america new york. Im behalf of the young c...

Spread and use of deadly chemical weapons. There can be no dispute that syria used banned chemical weapons, violated its obligations under the chemical weapons convention, and ignored the urging of the u. N. Security council. Charlie is the first direct American Assault against the assad regime. It is a move away from his earlier position. Vladimir putin called it a significant blow to the russianamerican relationship. Tom friedman wrote about the challenges in his New York Times columnork earli...

At the United States Naval Academy in annapolis, and served as senior fellow at the council on Foreign Relations in new york. A contributor to such publications as the new york times, the washington post, wall , newsweek,nal, time the london observer. Professor mandelbaum served for 23 years as the associate director of the Aspen Institute congressional project on American Relations with the former communist world. He serves on the board of advisors also the Washington Institute for near east Fo...

Tom it comes from meeting people for breakfast in washington, d. C. Every once in a while, somebody will come late. They would say i am really sorry. One day about three years ago, i spontaneously said to my friend peter, i said to him, thank you for being late. Because you were late, i have been eavesdropping on their conversations. I have been peoplewatching the lobby. Most importantly, i just connected ideas i have been struggling with for a month. People started to get into it. What they und...

Tom it comes from meeting people for breakfast in washington, d. C. Every once in a while, somebody will come late. They would say i am really sorry. One day about three years ago, i spontaneously said to my friend peter, i said to him, thank you for being late. Because you were late, i have been eavesdropping on their conversations. I have been peoplewatching the lobby. Most importantly, i just connected ideas i have been struggling with for a month. People started to get into it. What they und...

But also not to go too far down that line to sacrifice our Civil Liberties. You are an independent board. Who do you report to . We dont. We inform congress and the president , but there is no review of our report. We issued a report recently about the Metadata Program and surveillance report. The board voted and issued our report. We also briefed the president before his speech with our recommendations. I think that is where ellen wants to pick up. Your board got constituted and met at a very o...

Does matter from a lot of perspectives and makes us more capable if we do it right which is the key. I think escaped one up there. A partnership and collaboration. We are not doing this without partnership. There is person back there that talks to me more about the publicprivate partnerships. That is a we are doing right now with some of the folks. I think that is the key to a lot of our future. Proactive versus reactive. I cannot even jump on that. Proactive has to occur on both sides versus re...

Lyndon johnson was certainly an imperial president. I think what we see in johnson we start to see the cusp of the end of the imperial president s in the United States. There have been president s the acted in three fleet since then. The bush, no doubt about that. But he was the last person i think to understand the use and abuse of power. Unfortunately, he abused it in many respects. As did many of the president s who succeeded him. But he wasnt the last person who understood because of his con...

Partners. The irony is where brazil and india governments are, the bottom line is reforms need to happen internally that are about legal questions, but theres also a strategic level of interest that needs to go on here. [inaudible] do you think there is a possibility of a parallel within the United States . Great question. In the book, there is a chapter on the chinese approach. One of the key aspects besides the Massive Campaign of intellectual property theft, you have how this links into an as...

He focus needs to be on the children. Another issue we are facing we are asking the parents to weigh in. We have educational reform that starts in january. We have asked the parents. The parents are getting together in writing what they want to see in legislation for their children. I think we represent a body of people. Form thatack to that government is for the people if we say we the people, let the people get involved and what we legislatively. They have hired us to do a job. We forget we ar...