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Resourcing America's Long-Term Security Commitment to the Asia-Pacific On June 27, 2012, The Heritage Foundation hosted an event exploring the future of the United States' security policy in the Asia-Pacific. The event featured keynote remarks by Congressman J. Randy Forbes (R-VA) and a panel discussion with Ambassador James Glassman, Executive Director, George W. Bush Institute and former Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, General Paul Hester (ret.), USAF, Former Commander, U.S. Pacific Air Forces, Dr. Bruce Bennett, Senior Defense Analyst, the RAND Corporation, Bruce Klingner, Senior Research Fellow, Northeast Asia, The Heritage Foundation, and Walter Lohman, Director, Asian Studies Center, The Heritage Foundation.
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Testimony by Nick Zahn before Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Enforcement (U.S. House) on June 20, 2012 The Washington Roundtable for the Asia Pacific Press at The Heritage Foundation is unique among this town’s think tanks. My duty is to get to know the Asian media markets and press corps for purposes of promoting Heritage’s work and ideas. This responsibility has given me a first-hand understanding of how these reporters—including China’s—operate. In preparing my testimony, I have drawn from this daily interaction as well as some of Heritage’s broader work on public diplomacy. As I look at any comparison between the way the U.S. and China handle one another’s government/party sponsored press, two inequities jump out at me: funding and visas.
Testimony by Derek Scissors before Committee on Energy and Natural Reserouces (U.S. Senate) on June 14, 2012 There are serious misconceptions regarding China’s energy and environmental performance and what it means for the U.S. China is indeed spending a great deal of money on clean energy, but it is doing so largely in response to its own policy errors. The combined results of this spending and these errors are abysmal—waste, below-average gains in energy efficiency, lack of innovation, greater dependence on foreign sources, and a terrible record on the environment.
China's investment overseas is increasingly important to the United States and the international community. The China Global Investment Tracker created by The Heritage Foundation is the only publicly available, comprehensive dataset of large Chinese investments and contracts worldwide beyond Treasury bonds. Details are available for almost 500 attempted transactions -- failed and successful -- over $100 million in all industries, including energy, mining, transportation and banking.
Asia is home to more than half the world's population. Freedom and tyranny live side by side, as do economic opportunity and poverty. East and South Asia have some of the best places in the world to do business, but they also have some of the worst. Asia is home to some of the most unstable, dangerous nations in the world, and it is home to some of the most steady and reliable. It is also home to the only country in the world capable of emergng as a peer competitor for global American influence - the People's Republic of China. |
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