in 2000, prc trade with the middle east and africa was about $15 billion. by 2020 what it had reached $284 billion. that jump was driven in no small part by china's voracious appetite for the regions energy as well as its quest for markets for its exports in the region and beyond. it remains in our national interest as leader of the global economy to ensure the region supply -- the energy supply regions world markets and that sea lanes remain open and secure. the prc has shown night i desire nor the capability to assume that role and, frankly, nor should we wanted to. my concern with this economic contractor lies in two critical areas and then there is a third set of issues on which we must remain vigilant. first is the prc's unfair or unsavory practices in attempting to leverage its investment and trade especially in critical areas of research and technology to increase its global edge unfairly. that can means that the ivr or misuse of access to national telecoms networks and prc acquisition of strategic infrastructure, ports for example, may open new vuln

in 2000, prc trade with the middle east and north africa was about $50 million. by 2021 it had grown to -- . that was driven by a no small part by china's appetite for the region's energy and markets. it remains in our national interest, as leader of the global economy, to ensure that the region so that, the energy supply reaches world markets and that sea lanes remain open and secure. the prc has shown neither desire nor the capability to assume that role, and frankly, nor should we wanted to. my concern with this economic trajectory lies into critical areas. and then there is a third set of issues on which we may remain vessel and. first, as the prc's unfair or unsavory practices in delivering and trying to leverage its trade especially in critical areas of research and technology to increase its global engine fairly. that can mean that divide pr, or misuse of access to telecoms networks. prc acquisition of infrastructure, ports for example, may open new vulnerabilities for states in the region. my second concern is a longer term impact of the prc study accreti

adopted resolution 27-58 with an overwhelming majority which decided to restore the lawful seat of the prc in the u.n. and expel the representatives of the taiwan authorities from the place they unlawfully occupied. the so-called dual representation proposal put forth by the u.s. and a few others to keep taiwan's seat became nothing but a piece of paper. once and for all, resolution 27-58 resolved politically, legally the issue of the representation of the whole of china, including taiwan, in the human and international -- in the u.n. and international. to create one china or one taiwan. the one china principle has become a basic norm in international relations and a consensus of the international community when entering into diplomatic relations with china. 181 all recognized and accepted there is but one china in the world and china -- taiwan is a part of china and the prc government is the sole government representing the whole of china. china is not only upholding its sovereignty and territorial integrity, but also truly safeguarding peace and stability across the taiwan straight. the

in fact across the un, we see the prc and russia attempting to chip away at human rights, now io, our bureau, is working hard to counter this disturbing trend. we have answered u.s. priorities at our first session back as a un human rights council member in the marked session. we succeeded in passing the u. s. priority resolutions to renew mandates on syria, belarus, iran, and north korea during the most recent unhrc council session, which wrapped up last week. we lead a robust joint statement criticizing the open-ended mandate of an anti-israel current commission of inquiry. we also get the spotlight on human rights abuses in the prc including in hong kong, tibet, xinjiang, and speaking out in a joint statement we lead lobbying experts to renew the effort focused on sexual orientation and gender identity. expanding inclusion of protection up members of marginalized and vulnerable groups. we also supported the hrc's urgent focus on women and girls in afghanistan. briefly turning to food security, it is estimated that russia's unprovoked war on ukraine may drive 40 million or more addi

the prc has supported the narrative through everyk atrocity. our ukrainian friends could have a long hard struggle to achieve victory but russian countries can help by stepping up the pace of our collective assistance. ukraine's hard one successes on the c battlefield would have coe actually even earlier if the a biden administration european allies had take their cues from washington had been quicker and more proactive to deliver the capabilities ukraine actually needed. ukraine forces are working wonders with russian equipment for they quickly integrated cutting-edge systems but the capabilities in the right hands has cost lives. could've been avoided if the bite administration or your european partners had not been self deterred from providing s these tools sooner. the ukrainians need more of the weapons we have been giving them. the need to start getting them cafaster. they also need new capabilities like a long range, larger drones and tanks. not all these weapons need to come from america but make no mistake our allies are lookingd to us

north korea is reportedly refilling russia's artillery stockpiles and the prc has publicly supported moscow's narrative through every russian atrocity. so, our ukrainian friends may still face a long, hard struggle to achieve victory as they define it, but western countries can help us stepping up the pace of our collective assistance. ukraine's hard-won successes on the battlefield, could have come, actually even earlier of the biden administration and european allies have taken their cues from washington, had been quicker and more proactive to deliver the capabilities ukraine actually needed. ukraine forces are working wonders with western equipment, they quickly integrated cutting edge systems leak himars and stinger and javelin missiles and the west put those in the right hands, horrors could have been avoid if the biden administration and others providing that sooner. ukrainians need more of the weapons that we've been giving them and need to start getting them faster and they also need new capabilities like long range attack, larger drones and not all of them need to come from

way to total domination and they long-term chart will be the trc -- he long-term threat will be the prc. the same time, washington is sending frightening signals to other countries. one of the consequences of the crusade by the west against these objections is the growing decline of multilateral institutions that are states into 12 students and of their own interests. this is being pursued mbe when, the human rights council -- at the u.n. and by either counselors. here's the text already made to prevent -- serious attempts are being made -- sovereign mechanism which would ensure transparency for hundreds of programs that the pentagon has around the world, including throughout our country and erasure. these programs are far from harmless. there is an insert of lying to privatize -- line to privatize with the u.s. secretary of i.s. -- the multifaceted nature of the world. we are making sure we follow the charter and ensure they are geographical representation of numbers -- of member states. an impossible situation was created by washington having to do with the publication of the host cou

diplomatic relations with china, 181 countries are accepted that taiwan is a part of china and let the prc government is the sole legal government representing the whole of china. janet is not only opposing its sovereignty and territorial integrity but also truly safeguarding peace and stability across the taiwan strait, a principle of noninterference, a basic norm in international relations that is vital for developing countries. janet will continue to work for peaceful reunification with sincerity and effort. to realize his goal, we must combat taiwan's separatist activities and take the most forceful steps to oppose external interference. only by pulling down separatist activities can we forge peaceful reunification. only when china is completely reunified can there be an enduring peace across the taiwan state. in the scheme to interfere in china's internal affairs is bound to meet the strong opposition of all chinese and any move to stop china's reunification is bound to be crushed by the real. the international community closely follows china's development since the international cong

and prc interests align. we have made progress in the past, one notable one was our work up to 2000 -- 11 >> let me stop, if the. >> i am sorry, yes sir. >> if we know the chemical manufacturers are, the chinese know who they are. yes, there may be collaboration but there is a fundamental breakdown, right? >> yes, sir, the first thing is ensuring we have open lines of communication. the information that we have, that we understand about seizures in the western hemisphere, can be sent to the chinese so that they can take action on it. the second part of that is, and something we have clearly communicated to the chinese, and you mentioned in your opening statement. i think you brought up a important point. three simple things. agree with us on a list of unregulated chemicals that are used to create precursor chemicals that bear increase scrutiny. the second thing is to properly label the chemical and equipment shipments in accordance with the world trade organization. the third one is that they know their custo

china and russia the world is very unsettled right now given the russian invasion of ukraine and the prc's recent saber rattling over taiwan. could you share your views on recent lessons learned that's starting to shake your strategy? >> it's been going on for a while now and the success the intelligence community had about the prediction of the russian invasion was really interesting and it was an all hands effort from really every agency in the nic. from the d.i.a. perspective what we brought to the table was the foundational military intelligence perspective of the russian army at the time. what we do when we do it and sharing that early with partners so one of the biggest excesses came from cwhat i would call a dynamic policy environment that was able to modify existing policies to be able to share with more and more partners and i think as that drama unfolded in ukraine we were able to convince partners and allies and others of what was about to happen so i think that was a huge deal and the postinvasion our ability to continue the connectivity with our partners not only five guys but

and i said yesterday this is a moment where prc english and standing against everything that the un stands for. so i think overall we still have strong support for the un charter and russia is isolated. difficulty i suppose is where this goes, eight years ago russia annexed crimea it remains for all practical purposes a russian controlled area and nothing has changed in that situation despite a diplomatic process. we now have need of support for ukraine but what are the practical measures that could achieve the aspiration for these four parts of ukrainian territory as the international territories back law says they were made to recognise by russia. i law says they were made to recognise b russia. ~ . law says they were made to recognise b russia. ~ , ., by russia. i think it is worth remembering _ by russia. i think it is worth remembering that in - by russia. i think it is worth remembering that in the . by russia. i think it is worth | remembering that in the last by russia. i think it is worth - remembering that in the last few weeks we have seen significant advances by the ukrainian f

once they are digitized and placed in the file then and prc staff can access them and the request will be processed much faster in the future. there is a good and to the story if we can get there. >> i understand there is a backlog of immigration related record request are you familiar? >> . >> i am not intimately aware but am aware of it. >> we can have our teams work together to define a specific deadline but should you be confirmed similarly want to have the opportunity with the nature of that challenge to submit to the committee a proposal in that commitment. >> i'm willing to follow to make that commitment.mm >> . >> you will have some cybersecurity challenge as they are digitized how are youo think about handling the threats to cybersecurity that will present themselves for the national archives. >> i am aware there has been the inspector general ig report for the national archives concerning cybersecurity and i plan to review that report firsthand what is being done for those issues and concerns in a timely fashion. >> i know those that are deeply concerned for those three went

leadership, the prc and others have been more assertive there, sticking to shape the debate on issues like artificial intelligence in ways that are hostile to democratic norms. we see the p.r.c. and russia attempting to chip away at human rights. our bureau is working hard to counter this trend. we advance our u.s. priorities at our sessions. we succeeded in passing appropriate resolutions to renew mandates on syria, belarus, iran, and north korea growing the most recent u.n. hrc session, we led a robust joint statement criticizing the open ended mandate up anti-israel commission of inquiry. we cap the space up on -- could kept the pressure on china, and expanded the inclusion of vulnerable groups, we supported the urgent focus on women and girls in afghanistan. turning to food security, it is estimated that russia's unprovoked war on ukraine may drive 40 million or more additional people worldwide into extreme poverty and food insecurity this year. you may have noted that secretary blinken made the presidency to the find the link between poverty and insecurity. every driver of food i

rival chipmaker amt says its rival chips have likewise been banned from export to the prc. the move is the latest from washington aimed at limiting beijing's capacity to expand its use of artificial intelligence in military applications. it comes as tensions remain high for the future of taiwan where most of america's microchips are currently manufactured. nvidia said it could cost the company some $400 million in potential chinese sales this quarter alone. beijing slammed the decision on thursday. >> the u.s. is politicizing an weaponizing science and trade, monopolizing advanced technologies in a bid to maintain its hegemony. its actions are disrupting the world's industrial supply chains and are doomed to fail. >> boris johnson says go large, go nuclear, in one of his last official act for his replacement takes over next week. outgoing uk prime minister unveiled a massive government funding plan for a new nuclear power plant in southwest england. the proposed facility will be but a french state-owned energy giant. critics fear taxpayers could get stuck with the bill if i

>> it was recently said the prc played their cards. which card, we are not sure. we are going to learn something based on what they just did. i think in any case, anytime we try to predict the future, we do not get it right. we can help shape the future. using that information to take a look at something that already happened, because something always changed. the aspect of continuous analysis will be important to use what we saw, but also what we have seen over the course of the past several years and in the future to shape how we might do things and prepare ourselves. >> fair. we have a couple more minutes, i am grateful for that. i want to talk on acquisition, it is linked a little bit -- not just hardware, but software. i would argue the air force last year, it was pretty spectacular. one outlet described it, another said the u.s. is already lost to the ai flight to china. i want to talk about software. are you looking for replacement? >> i have watched part of the fallout, i realize our previous software officer was frustrated on various aspects. i know the s

indeed as you have said it what we've seen is that china obviously, we know the prc has been pursuing this kind of transnational policing activities for quite a while. we just reported on them in january of this year the way they're using a illegal incident to have targets return from across the world. these are massive operations. what weigh come across following a statement in august 2022 from the ministry of public security itself stating that they had successfully persuaded to return 230,000 targets between april 2021 and july of this year alone under a single campaign. those numbers were so staggering. so we went to delve into it a little deeper. what we found they are using these kind of overseas moment associations, community cooperation centers for chinese overseas. on one hand often do have a legitimate purpose in assisting the chinese overseas communities but what we found is that something they're obviously not reporting to local anothers in the countries they're operating is that they're actively using these kind of associations, people working there, to help in these ille

office partnership the prc in russia seek to leverage their offers fought financing or security guarantees. for their own political, economic, and priorities. perfect example of this is the ccp's debt trap to plummet see-through -- an initiative. when i meet with partners now and allies around the world i ask, why they're entering into dangerous agreements with chinese counties party. they told me it's because we're not there, as you mentioned, mr. chairman we're not on the field, we are beyond the field if we're gonna win. the u.s. government needs to show up and compete. and by 2050, 25% of the world population will live in africa. and over 60% of the continent is under the age of 30. these transpose incredible opportunities but also a manse challenges. these young people need education, employment, an opportunity to create a better life for themself. that's why strategic investments now by the u.s. to partner with african nations, to address these challenges is so critical. we i want to mention, the ag o, a forum. this is congressionally mandated and it's to bring trade ministers from e

positions to contest organizational elections because we see particularly in the chinese space with the prc national at the head of the organization's from a they put forward chinese propagandaan and we have to be able it difficult to counter it if we don't put of u.s. candidates to challenge them, it doesn't have to be a u.s. candidate, it can be a candidate from any country but maybe not fromes russia or china or iran. when you pick who's the best athlete? if we think about broader narratives around the world we have to look at these organizations say are we really in the game? how are we using resources? he would see we are not doing very well and we are not competing when we could if we put our mind to it. >> you might even have a candidate from iran, you know on the front lines the iranian campaign to confront and we have not done a good job reaching out for 904 would be what craig talked about, open source program, this doesn't even have frto be -- make sure we are communicating the patterns we are seeing in picking up here and what we think might be broadcast toward you and it's not

need to spend their money on the kinds of military equipment we have, we know they need to keep the prc from moving in invading die taiwan. that is the best way to deter this the aggression before we're in a desperate situation to help taiwan beat back china. charles: we want to bring you back on. you always write great pieces. we'll have something else to talk about. those are two most important things, those flashpoints. thank you very much, whoever. we have bulltick chief market strategist kathryn rooney vera. one reason i like you coming back after rebecca you have clients all over the world, how concerned are you with the political trend? >> rebecca is right. could very well be if we lose taiwan, if we have issue there, game over for the markets and economy. i'm very concerned about that. if in terms of the u.s. economy, even if we get zero covid policy in china continue towing shut down segments of the chinese economy, that could throw a wretch what is here, has really up to this point been an improving supply chain story. so we could actually just get even, if there is some sort

. >> if we didn't have indication in the morning of an invasion by the prc, we would share that with the taiwanese. i think, for that purpose, we would be better served -- and the taiwanese noted that they intend to spend more on defense which is appropriate and the weaponry that we provided the taiwanese might be better where we profit from our experience with ukrainians. and better kinds of weaponry are better suited to repel an invasion would be in order. >> john? go ahead. >> yes thank you. general klapper, my suggestion is going back to kim jong-un i think you bring a side basketball like -- did. i prefer michael jordan signature on the ball but i do have a question for you, what about a nonaggression pact between the u.s., the north koreans, that would show that we have no intent of attacking them and then later on, because they are not going to denuclearize. that is not in their dna right now. >> well yeah, that is right. one thing there has been discussion about -- right now there is still -- they agreed to stop shooting on the 27th of july 1953. so we do not have a piece tre

organizations selection because the sea began particularly in the chinese space that when there's a prc national who is the head of these organizations they put forward chinese propaganda and we have to be able and it's difficult to counterit if we're not putting up the us candidate . or it doesn't have to be a us candidate, it can be a candidate with any country maybe it shouldn't be from china , maybe it should be from iraq. when you include the best athletes and i think if where thinking about shaping broader narratives around the world you have to look at these organizations and sit back and say we really in the game and how using our financial personnel and resources and i think you would see that where not doing very well andwe're not competing . when we really i think could if we put ourminds to it . >> you might have a candidate from bahrain because you know very well on the front lines taking the brunt of that is, we have not done a good job of reaching out and correlating what would be very much whatcraig talked about, an open source program . this doesn't even have to be in s

organizations selection because the sea began particularly in the chinese space that when there's a prc national who is the head of these organizations they put forward chinese propaganda and we have to be able and it's difficult to counterit if we're not putting up the us candidate . or it doesn't have to be a us candidate, it can be a candidate with any country maybe it shouldn't be from china , maybe it should be from iraq. when you include the best athletes and i think if where thinking about shaping broader narratives around the world you have to look at these organizations and sit back and say we really in the game and how using our financial personnel and resources and i think you would see that where not doing very well andwe're not competing . when we really i think could if we put ourminds to it . >> you might have a candidate from bahrain because you know very well on the front lines taking the brunt of that is, we have not done a good job of reaching out and correlating what would be very much whatcraig talked about, an open source program . this doesn't even have to be in s

application stores are moving religious apps at the request of the prc and are there areas where u.s. companies might be vulnerable knowingly or unknowingly in the repression of religion? the it's a great question. the question about whether american companies are actively engaged etc.. i think it's undeniably true this point kick at amazon you can't buy a bible there. there were certain religious apps that are not allowed within china because they follow chinese law. i don't think it's controversial to say it's a challenge for american companies to operate in china not follow these. 30 much any american company operating in china and putting out a consumer facing application or platform app they are going to run into these issues and they will have to comply with china or the hype to leave the country. those who are still there are in compliance with what china is doing. more broadly there's also the question of american firms and the use of their products within the surveillance state. i've been heartened to see more aggressive steps that the white house is taking recently in associ

and the prc has publicly supported moscow's narrative through every russian atrocity. so our ukrainian friends may still face a long-hard struggle to achieve victory as they define it but western countries can help by stepping up the pace of collective assistance. ukraine's hard won cubbing syceses on the battlefield could have come actually even earlier if the biden administration and allies that take their kids from washington had been quicker and more proachetive to deliver the capabilities that ukraine accurately needed. ukraine forces are working wonders with western equipment. they quick linty grated cutting edge systems like high mars and yeah leeanne and stinger missiles and the west has to put the capabilities in the right hands has cost lives. horrible could have been avoided if the biden administration and european partners hadn't been self-deterred from providing these tools sooner. the ukrainians need more of the weapons we've been giving them and they need to start getting them faster. and they also need new capables like long range attackments. larger dr