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them harder. i think we would welcome legislation to reform that area. but if we come in a blunt instrument, suddenly recreating the fda authorities or mandating things on the fda or looking for the department of health and human services to do things that they re not equipped to do and then, of course, we don t fund them to do it, i think we have to be cautious about some of the legislation that may be proposed. more than anything we want government to be there to work collaboratively but we still have to recognize the safety and efficacy that american people and most people here would certainly think is necessary for a new product. we want those products out as quickly as possible. i remember the days when we had the first evidence of the aids epidemic and the people that brought home the reform and fda to get some of these therapies out quickly were the act up groups of the gay community. they studied the law of fda and argued you don t need to take so long. you don ....
and just kind of strung up there and the dutch ship, the flagship of this, you know, task force is built to commercial damage control standards, even so-called low threat environment, somebody may get the hands control standards. how do we deal with these problems with the allies not just technically but in terms of what they are able to survive in terms of threats? if i had that answer as clearly as i would like to we would probably say we have the answers. we are in the bit of discovery. i think you are discovering that. you have outlines a few of the things that come about. what kind of equipment and capabilities do our allies have? we need to understand that and you don t really find those issues until you bring them together. we are still coming back the marines come back to sea we welcome them back and they have a capability as they move ahead on ground operations over the years in iraq and afghanistan. we didn t move at the same pace and stay as synchronized ....
the carbon green coal technologies. my question is on the short-term energies and contingency planning for an oil supply disruption. the questions are the region prepared in terms of strategic oil stocks or oil sharing plans for an oil supply disruption. is the institutional architecture of the region the various international forum such as the iea, asean, asean plus 3, as well as the east asia summit. are they up to the task in terms of the region s institutional framework in dealing with short-term energy crisis such as an oil supply disruption using tools such as oil stocks or oil sharing plants? if not, what can be done? that is a great question and it kind of brings out the reality that simultaneously we all together have to do two things. one is manage the situation in which one exists now and the other is put in place the tools and the institutional and tec technological that can help us to move forward. i would say from the u.s. perspective, we think that this ....
test. negotiations towards which have been under way for a number of years, but which the two sides agreed to accelerate last year. in theory, they re going to complete the framework of this at the end of this year and china is going to come forward with a negative list of investment restrictions early next year. but, frankly, this is going to be very tough slogging. it s going to take probably at least a couple more years to get to conclusion on bilateral investment treaty. but i think that s going to become a new sort of organizing principle of bilateral economic relations. then you ll have cooperation on climate change, ebola and then there will probably be talk about infrastructure bank but i m happy to talk more about that in questions if you re interested. we ll go to our southeast asia chair, eddie bauer. thanks, matt. great to see standing room only on a soggy morning in washington. ....
cars on them. you would really enjoy that. and he will do a bilateral with the president of myanmar. you can tell the white house is managing the myanmar trip very carefully given the fact that the president called the president of myanmar and the leader of the opposition earlier this week to get ahead of that trip. the president has three important issues to manage within the myanmar situation. first and, i think, foremost on most people s minds is the 2015 election. right now, precluded to run for president. i think americans would like to see changes to the constitution so she would be able to run. there will be a question, and this will be a hard one, between the white house trying to support continued reform, economic and political reform in myanmar. after all, this is a country that had cloistered itself for decades and has made an incredible amount of political and economical reform but there s a real push from senate and house legislators, including the new sena ....