Good morning. My name is chairmans mark. Im a senior fellow with the Geoeconomics Center of Atlantic Council. I would like to welcome you to our next session where we are going to dig into development and finance, chinas lending, aid, its investments and what is being called the global south. Im going to use the moderators privilege and refer to low income and middle Income Countries. That seems to be a more neutral term than what we were using before. Real quickly, just to introduce the topic. We found a great deal today about a lot of the big picture aspects of chinas interaction with the developing world. And to think what were going to try to do here is sort of dig into the lifeblood of this interaction, which is money. The lending investment and a that china has offered to both low income and middle Income Countries over the past decade amounts to a vast sum, well over a trillion dollars. Based on a data statistics the commitment or even larger than that. Theres a lot of issues th
The opinion that matters the most iyour own. This is what democracy looks like. Cspan powered by cable. Leaders in the Health Industry add policy advocates assess the current state of the u. S. Health care system. They talk about health care affordability, innovation, Prescription Drug prices, and the need to increase accessibility. This is from the Milken Institute future of Health Summit in washington, d. C. Welcome to the Milken Institute future of heal summit. We are delighted to have you join us and look forward to your participation over the next few days to kick off the event, please welcome executive Vice President of health at the Milken Institute, esther crawford. Welcome to the Milken Institute future of Health Summit. We are delighted to have you join us and look forward to your participation over the next few days. Please welcome executive Vice President of health, esther krofah. Good morning and welcome to the 2023 future of Health Summit. Whether you are here in the real
Carl quintanilla joining us Spark Capital quinn and roger, good morning to you both pressure continues to mount on Silicon Valley as u. N. Today, leaders from the uk, france and italy will call on social Media Companies to remove terrorist conten from their sites within two hours or be held liable for content on their platforms facebook, microsoft and alphabet are attending todays summit roger, it is sort of a continuation of the political pressure they are getting from all sides. To me its legitimate pressure facebook and google in particular take the position that they are not responsible or accountable for anything that happens on their platform. Given the things that happened over the last year, i think there is a need for the conversation about exactly what the limits ought to be i would think terrorism is only a small peaiece of the problem. Megan, is it possible with todays technology to remove the content in one to two hours. Theres all kinds of nseemly comments on social netwo
, one. Of morning. The Committee Meets to receive testimony on the u. S. Government policy strategy and organization to protect our nation in cyberspace. To begin id like to thank senators rounds and nelson for their leadership on these issues and our Cyber Security subcommittee. This hearing builds upon the good work that they and their subcommittee have done to tackle the critical challenge of cyber. This is a challenge that is growing more dire and more complex. Not a week passes that we dont read about some disturbing new incident, Cyber Attacks against our Government Systems and Critical Infrastructure, data breaches back compromise Sensitive Information of our citizens and companies, attempts to manipulate Public Opinion through social media and of course attacks against the fundamentals of our democratic system and process. Those are just the ones that we know about. This is a totally new kind of threat as we all know. Our adversaries, both state and nonstate actors view the ent
Epidemic, and that is very inspiring to us, to see these small news organizations that are struggling because they have lost so much advertising over the past decade, and still putting resources into this story is really important. So we cheer all those people on. Ms. Casey where does this go from here . Mr. Rosen i think the story that we did will get local television stations now to say lets cover it in our area in the bigger way. Lets not just cover the car crash or local three alarm fire, lets devote resources to this. When that happens, here is how it works in washington. Those stories happen, people at home get outraged, they call their senator and congressman, the senator and congressman look at the mail and the incoming phone list, and says oh, i better do something about that. Legislation has been proposed maybe to remedy it. Law enforcement, maybe the vote is more resources in a proper way. To theely, it goes executive branch that says this is going to be a big voting issue i