Good afternoon. Welcome to CSIS. I'm Stephen Sharaghi. I'm the Shoal Chair in International Business here at CSIS, and I'm proud to welcome you to our launch of a series that we're having on what may be the most critical issue facing the world, what shape will the next global economy take, and what strategic ramifications will it have for the United States and the world. And as we think about this issue, nothing probably looms larger than what kind of leadership structure and what kind of leaders will take this forward and develop a course for the world and for our countries as we face this crisis that we haven't seen in years. And I think, you know, a lot of the discussion for President Obama recently is focused on healthcare, but I think in terms of the overall historical perspective, how we handle this financial crisis and how leaders here and elsewhere deal with it will be how history looks back on whether we were responsive, whether we set the stage for further economic stagnation or actually set up for a financial crisis 2.0 or charted the way forward to more sustainable growth. And as we look at that, you know, global efforts in the G8 and G20, we couldn't have a better group than we have here today, both in terms of U.S. Sherpas that have led the launch of the G20 Leaders Summit, led the G8 after 9-11, the transition, the 1990s post-Cold War, reacted to the financial crisis, worked with legendary Treasury Secretaries such as Robert Rubin, and particularly our panel here today from an international perspective, because the G20 was a great recognition that the world had changed in key ways and that no nation could go with this alone and that we needed to broaden the scope of our efforts to include new nations on the international stage. So with that, again, I couldn't be more pleased to have the distinguished group we have here today. Immediately on my left, we have Ambassador Han-Duck Su, and as I wrote last spring with Korea's upcoming G20 chairmanship, its leadership on FTAs, including the U.S.-Korea FTA that's pending, and its response to its own financial crisis and leading reforms, and its key role in security issues in what may be the world's most dynamic region of Asia. There may be no two nations who are at the center of such an intersection of interests as the United States and Korea. And we couldn't ask for a better representative as we deal with the issues of the financial crisis than Ambassador Han, who was not only Ambassador, but was Prime Minister, was a minister of finance and trade, covered basically every major base on the important positions related to global finance and international trade. And he's also no stranger to the United States having attended school at Harvard where he got his masters and his Ph.D. as well as serving at the OECD as Ambassador and coordinating with many of the other leading global economies. He has awarded many medals, and we're very honored to have him here today. So thank you very much for presenting. And as the chair of the 2010 G20, I think Korea has a unique perspective to provide on that as well as your own personal observations on the way forward. Secondly, we have Ambassador Fujisaki from Japan, which has long been a strong ally of the United States in the G process, dating back to the original Gs in the 1970s. He personally has an incredibly wide range of experience. And like Ambassador Han, his experience with the United States goes very back, even I believe, to visit middle school where you were in the United States in addition to other periods of study and has served at the OECD in a whole range of other capacities. And as chair of the 2010 APEC summit, the summit that will occur in the world's, again, most dynamic region and talk about how Asia is integrating with the United States, again, we couldn't ask for a better person to discuss those issues. And finally, last but not least, we have Ambassador Castellaneda. And I think the Italy G8 that was recently held was groundbreaking in so many ways. It was over 40 countries. It represented the idea that you may need to pull out different groups together to address different issues. And his role as a former Sherpa, as Ambassador Fujisaki, gives him kind of an unparalleled perspective on these different challenges that were faced. He's advised several prime ministers in a foreign policy capacity as their senior advisor, been a diplomatic advisor to the Treasury Ministry. And in addition, I should refer to him, I guess, as possibly Knight Castellaneda, because he was honored as his country's highest award of the Republic of Italy, the Knight of the Grand Cross. So we're very interested in hearing your perspective, again, personally, and then also coming out of that kind of landmark G8 where you think we'd go from here. So with that, I'd like to turn it over to our distinguished panelists for opening remarks. I may pose a question that I'd really like to turn to the audience. Part of this next global economy series we're trying to develop here in advance on a number of issues ranging from rebooting trade to what security issues could undermine global recovery is not a series of lectures, but a dialogue. I know there's so many talented people in the audience that we look forward to hearing from you as well. So with that, I'd like to turn to Ambassador Han. Good afternoon. Thank you, Dr. Sharady, for your kind introduction. President Joan Hamley and many other distinguished guests, thank you. I'm very honored and pleased to be here. We are now one week away from the Pittsburgh G20 Summit and at this critical juncture, I'd like to thank the Center for Strategic and International Studies for holding this timely seminar, which provides an opportunity to review and discuss the goals and implications of the G20 Summit for the world economy. CSIS has long been a leader in producing many excellent reports on important current issues that they pay tribute to President Hamley's vision and leadership. As an ambassador of the G20 Troika country, this seminar is also an invaluable opportunity to share the sessions and lessons and experiences of the former shepherds who laid the foundation for the G20 as a global governance system. After the global economy slid into an unprecedented economic setback, there was growing concern that this financial crisis might spill over to the real sector of the economy and we would enter the second Great Depression. However, what is different in its response between the current situation and the Great Depression in 1929 is that 20 leaders of the world's leading economies gather together in Washington, DC right after the crisis and then again in London in April. They recognize the need for a bold and decisive action to address the financial crisis and agreed upon close coordination of major policies. Firstly, the G20 nations decided to actively pursue macroeconomic policies such as counter-cyclical fiscal and financial policies that will provide $5 trillion for the next two years. Secondly, the leaders agreed on adherence to the free market and declared a standstill on protectionism refraining from building new barriers to trade or investment. Thirdly, the leaders also decided to enhance crisis management by expanding IMF resources and strengthen an early warning exercise. In addition, they agreed to enhance the emerging economies participation in international financial institutions and financial stability both. The leaders also made a strong commitment to improve international financial institutions governance, deflecting the changing economic weight of emerging and developing countries. Lastly, the leaders showed their commitments to support emerging and developing countries who have been hit hardest by the crisis. They agreed to ensure a total of $1.1 trillion in support of these countries. In particular, since the Washington Summit, Korea has led the discussion on rejecting protectionist measures worldwide. The standstill declaration proposed by Korea has contributed to resisting the pressure to slip into more protectionist policies and identifying free trade as the driving force for the healthy recovery of the global economy. Having reached a substantial and detailed agreement during the first and second G20 summit, the G20 has firmly established itself as a main forum for discussing ways to resolve the global economic crisis. Fortunately, buoyed by the positive evaluation of the G20 summit as having been a turning point for the global recovery, the leaders decided to hold a third G20 summit in Pittsburgh on the 24th and 25th of September this year. Let me turn to the main agenda of the upcoming G20 summit. Even if the economic indicators throughout the world economy show signs of improvement, macroeconomic coordination to overcome the economic crisis will be the key agenda for the Pittsburgh G20 summit. It is premature to unwind the support measures the G20 nations have taken because the downward risk persists amid the rising unemployment rate, unstable price of raw materials and still lingering financial uncertainty. Until the recovery becomes firmly established, we should maintain strong policy responses. At the same time, we need to begin preparation for an exit strategy, heeding fiscal sustainability and signs of inflationary pressure. Considering that unwinding the policies of crisis will involve complex challenges of timing, speed and sequences, there should be close coordination in preparation for an exit strategy based on common principles in order to prevent the world economy from sliding into a double dip. As important as macroeconomic coordination is, transition towards more sustainable and balanced growth is another major challenge for the Pittsburgh summit. Developing a common framework which ensures high sustainable and balanced growth will require both flexibility and cooperation from the G20. Flexibility because each country will have its own national trajectory towards sustainable growth. Cooperation because the crisis has taught us that national macroeconomic strategies developed in isolation can lead to dangerous imbalances. The Pittsburgh summit is an opportunity for the G20 to launch a process to guide the global transition to sustainable growth and Korea together with Australia propose the three-stage process. First, national governments should develop their own strategy for recovery. Second, they should agree to deliver these strategies to the IMF and ask the IMF to report back on their consistency with balanced and sustained growth. Third, G20 leaders should meet in 2010 to agree on their responsibilities and the necessary actions to achieve this goal within the framework of post-crisis global economic management. For the sustainable growth path of the world economy, we also need to take into account various challenges like the aging society, climate change, and unstable price of raw materials, etc. In this regard, I'd like to point out that Korea has embraced low carbon, green growth as a new strategy to lead Korea's developments for the future in moving beyond the conventional economic growth approach. Leaders in Pittsburgh, I discuss and take note of the importance of low carbon, green growth as a new engine of sustainable growth and commit to encouraging green investments and enhancing international cooperation on the development of clean technology. There is still more work to do to implement commitments at the Washington and London summits such as reforming financial systems, modernizing and ensuring resources for the international financial institutions and supporting developing countries. International financial institutions reform is a fertile ground to produce many concrete deliverables for the Pittsburgh summit. In particular, fundamental reform is required of the IMF so that the fund properly reflects the changed global economic weight and promotes more balanced global growth. In this regard, it will be highly important to come up with a concrete roadmap for the quarter review to be completed by January 2011. Given the high level of attention that 1.1 trillion dollar commitments received in London, we are happy to note that satisfactory progress has already been made. Pittsburgh summit should work out a clean picture about how the increased resources will be utilized. With respect to reform of financial regulations, we should guard against the loss of momentum arising from the stabilization of the financial market. This is no time for complacency. In order to stabilize the financial market in the emerging economies, reform of regulations must focus more on assuaging the extreme volatility in the international capital movements and exchange rate. The G20 has firmly established itself as a main forum to produce substantial and detailed agreements on overcoming the challenges of the global economic crisis. The G20 has demonstrated its capability to represent the perspectives of both emerging and advanced countries. As the G20 has demonstrated its capability to represent the perspective as its management efficiency in dealing with major global economic and financial issues. For these reasons, I would say that the G20 is a representative and legitimate forum to steer the global economy. As such, it is crucial for us to make the G20 an ongoing process. In this regard, Korea shares the view that the G20 needs to hold another summit after the Pittsburgh summit to address crucial post-crisis management issues and to ensure the follow-through on previous commitments. As the chair of the G20 Finance Minister's meeting for 2010, Korea would like to host the next G20 summit in 2010 for the following reasons. First, as one of the G20 Troika, Korea has actively contributed to the G20 process, proposing measures such as the standstill pledge, principles of impaired asset management, and liquidity supply for developing countries at the Washington and London G20 summit. Second, it would be natural for Korea to host the fourth G20 summit since it will chair the G20 Finance Minister's meetings and the beauty meetings in 2010. Third, Korea can bridge the viewpoints of developed and developing countries since it has the experience of developing from one of the poorest countries in the world to attaining the status of an OECD member country. I hope Pittsburgh summit will be a total success and with its success, the global economy can continue its path towards full recovery and prosperity. Thank you again for listening and I would be happy to answer any questions afterwards. Thank you. Ambassador Fujisaki. Thank you very much. The notice I received was please try to limit yourself to 10 minutes, but having a Giovanni, the Italian ambassador next to me, he was my Sherpa colleague at G8. I thought and he's leaving, terminating his job in a few weeks. I thought I'll give him my five minutes. I'll limit myself to five. So two days ago I was giving a speech and the title was Japan, Changes and Continuities. Usually you would expect that I would say that there's at least some changes in Japan. I didn't have to do that this time. Today I would just limit myself to three points. G20, climate change and APIC. G20, a year ago, a lot of even pundits in this town said we have to relook at Bretton Woods, really review the whole system and I was a little doubtful. With hindsight, I think there was a bit of exaggeration, but we're not that bad now. But this is thanks to G20 initiative. I think you as a leader and that was great initiative to have G20 summit meeting in November and it was followed. And I think this group of leaders have given one point a confidence.  They're trying to cope with the issue. And that was the big thing. In this coming one we'll be discussing bonuses, BIS and these are not that difficult for us to support because some Japanese business leaders said the bonuses of Japanese corporate CEOs are about two digits smaller than a, well, certain country. I don't have to mention. As for, I'll just say G20 has done a great job. How to use G20 from now on, continue whatever that's a leaders to decide. I was GHR with Giovanni and Al here and we work together. I thought I saw a good colleague over there as well and a lot of American colleagues. And at that time, I thought G8 has two merits over other summits. One, they were coping with political issues, non-proliferation or terrorism and more deeply than any other. Second, because the number were limited, they had real deep exchanges amongst the leaders. And I thought that was good. Second, on climate change, the new incoming government is trying to take the position that our goal for midterm will be far more bigger than what we have been doing. The previous government goal was 15% cut from 2005 and Ratsmer-Mercie was 17% come 2005. But I think what we'll be doing is nearly double those. And it has not, I think new prime minister will announce this in New York, but what he has been saying before becoming in the government was a very big number. So I think this is what some Japanese companies were concerned because they think that it's a little too high. Some industries think that this is a golden opportunity. In 1970s, we met all price hike and that really made Japanese economy more efficient. So we should take it. So it's not one voice in Japan. But one thing I can say is that according to IA, public investment in energy sector is done by two countries mainly, 70% by two countries, US and Japan, US 30%, Japan 40% in public investment in the energy sector. So I think the two countries have special responsibility and special also possibility to realize a lot of contribution in climate change to bring about progress in COP 15. Three, on APEC, we have regarded and we think it's very important because US is involved. It's the only real pan-Pacific community that we are discussing here. We have been continuing. And this year especially is convening Singapore, next year is Japan and year after next is US. So we hope that we can carry a torch in between Singapore and United States and have a very meaningful one. It should not be really only a technical issues that should be discussed. We have to really focus on strategic issues as well. That's about all I have to say. Thank you very much. Ambassador Kessler. Thank you very much. I hope I do not need to have these extra five minutes because what is important to have a contribution all of you about to discuss and try to find some solution for the new architecture and world architecture future. Because I think important is that yeah, there are some some data change. The world is the Berlin world in 9-11. The last one was the global economic crisis last year. This was an acceleration of the of the process of reforming the international architecture. But that was the last point. I think the international architecture needs to be reformed because it was conceived 60 years ago just after the Second World War. So you have the political institution, the United Nations, NATO, you have the economic institution, the IMF, World Bank and so on. So they are a complex institution that perhaps after 60 years need some great reform taking into account the world that has been changed. There's some rising power. There's Asia having a different role in Europe, but in America. And then this new team that were not after the Second World War was not yet tackled as climate change, food, environment and so on. So I think we are not to focus a kind of competition between G8 and NG20 or some national pride. We still have the G8 presidency and then you have the NG20 presidency that will change next year. But I try not to limit and not at all to avoid any competition. All this must be considered as tools to face the crisis and to reach a result. The important is the effectiveness, the accountability of an international institution. And what perhaps lacks on the G8, for example, is that there is not an accountability after years. We decide, we write hundreds of pages, nobody really reads, there is not a binding decision. So I think from the perspective of the Italian presidency, we tried not as because we are president but because of the effectiveness of the institution to organize a G8 that could be a response to the crisis and also helping the other institution to find a solution to the different teams that we are facing. We have a good record because Italy organized the G8 in 2001 in January. For the first time I think we opened the G8 to some African countries, some less developed countries. And that was when we launched for this global health fund that is still working in Geneva. So this year after the L'Aquila G8, that is not anymore G8, we tried to find a new solution to open the debate to other countries. So there was a different kind of a meeting that at the end included 40, around 40 countries because we had the G8 plus 5, then together with Egypt there was, and then there was a discussion to open also to Turkey, to Indonesia where there was another two big countries, perhaps could be including this G8 plus something. President Obama said the last one is that it is excluded, that it is always critical towards the formula of G something. But in L'Aquila was the G8 meeting that a certain sense is a form that has proven to be very useful to debate teams and issues that on a basis of a shared vision, that is the main point of G8, having a country which shared the same vision, the same political and economic vision, open to other countries that have greater responsibility in the world arena, and not forgetting other countries that can give a contribution to solving the problem. And the problem is now this last year we are focused on the global financial economic crisis. That is not to forget that there are other issues that seems now a bit far away, but they are still present. We don't talk anymore about food for example, food security, food need, and that is very important for many countries. We talk about climate change, environment, health, basic health. So the meeting in L'Aquila tried to focus not only on economic global and newer global economic governance, but also on other issues like this one. And so we asked leaders from African countries to come, the Union for Africans. So the service of it, you know, better tell me, service countries that took part to do this meeting. So our contribution as Italian Presidency that we still have until the end of this year is to contribute to build this new global architecture that is not a work for six months, one year. We have the same architecture since 60 years, so perhaps still we need some more time to find a new solution. G20 is a good solution. G20 because it was an immediate response, was a tool that we already had on our hands, so it's easy to say, to rise at the level of the chief of the aid of governments from the normal level they had in the last year, so the finance level. But I think it's not as some good aspect, but perhaps it's not as many say it's as representative as it could be. So I think it's more kind of first response to a crisis. We consider as a kind of a bridge perhaps to a final or definitive solution, and perhaps having some competent at other institution will not have. So this all is a bit of a working progress, not to stack just in one solution. So as we imagine as Italy, as G8 is a kind of a club or radio, some value added that has been proven along the years, but perhaps it's not anymore sufficient to give a response to the so many problems with the present world. G20, it's immediate response that can need to be refined and perhaps to focus on the competence. And then if you have time, talk about UN, NATO, IMF, World Bank, OCDA, and so on. It's a great task, but I don't know, we are always pushed by the emergency of the problem. This year has been the economic crisis. We hope that we are rebounding from this crisis and the starting and a new period of better growth anyway, stopping the decline and starting a new period. And then facing the other problems I was listing before. So I'm very interested to know also what you think about all this problem and together to give perhaps a contribution to the solution. Thank you very much. And by the way, in fact, I'm living in a few weeks. I will be in Rome in October. You are all invited to see me in Rome. But the United States for me is really a second home. I will come as often as possible to Washington, to the rest of the United States. And I know that I have many friends here and you have a good friend, a great friend in Rome. Thank you. Ambassador Kesslin, I think you may have many visitors from the audience given how beautiful Rome is, especially that time of year. So thank you very much. I think the ambassadors have done such an excellent job of covering such a comprehensive range. I'd just like to turn it over to our audience because I know so many people have such great experience and interesting questions. So I'd like to maybe start with the individual, the man right there on the third row, please. Thank you. Mike Miyazawa, I've got a question for Ambassador Fujisaki. At the first G20 summit here in November last year, the Prime Minister of Japan, former Prime Minister of Japan, pledged that Japan is going to extend a loan of $100 billion to the IMF. As everybody knows, there was a change of government in Japan yesterday. So I guess my question is, does this promise by the former Prime Minister of Japan still stand or has there been any change? That commitment was extended, and I think I have not heard of any changes. Thank you. Ernie Prieger, Manufacturers Alliance, just a fact, the U.S. manufacturing industry we project will decline by 16 percent this year. That's related to a position I understand the United States will take at Pittsburgh, namely that the United States can no longer serve as the import of last resort, recovery, where others can pursue export-oriented growth. It's particularly related to China where the big imbalance is, but my question here is rather, assuming the U.S. takes this position in Pittsburgh, will we get the support of others, such as the Europeans, Japan, South Korea, to some form of commitment that recovery should not be based on export-oriented growth that would lead to a bigger U.S. deficit and in effect a real challenge in the recovery of this manufacturing sector? I think you raised quite relevant questions as we recover from these global economic crises. We know all very well that the last four years or five years of rapid growth, mainly due to export, actually will not be the real momentum, may not be the real momentum for growth in the future. That means, I do not mean that the role of trade is somewhat downgraded. Trade is still very important in pushing for growth. It's a really interdependent world and globalization will certainly work in that way. But we know that the overall aggregate demand of the world will certainly be less than the bubble years. So the Pittsburgh Summit has one of its top agenda for G20, which includes all the relevant countries, including United States, China, India, Korea, Japan. And they will discuss on what will be the high, stable, sustainable growth framework in the future after the crisis. That is very important. It includes a lot of macroeconomic policies, but also some kind of a, you know, how to enhance the potential growth rate, which will require some kind of structural reform, balancing between the domestic and the, you know, external demands, and also some kind of rebalancing among the major players on the global economy. So they will discuss. There are some suggestions. Korea, Australia proposed some free-stage, some kind of solution for that. And there's also some proposal by Germany that charter for sustainable economic activities. And also there are one proposed by United States as the framework for sustainable economic growth. So all those are not quite apart from each other. They can find some kind of a common denominator for making the global economy more sustainable in terms of growth and the increasing the standard of living of the global citizens. No, as a European, I can't just say that our position is that when we can just rely on the American market to absorb our products, so I think our commitment will be to have a fair world market, which any tendencies to production can be avoid, and at the same time having an open market so we can also buy and sell our products all around the world. And of course the American economy is still the biggest economy in the world, so it must be important for us to have a fair exchange. And important is the basic thing that the world must be an open world for our products produced on without, they say, to change the rules of competition, so without subsidies, without some other form of inside helping, as you say. So that is there what the ideal world, we hope that we can reach at least some form of this ideal world. Thank you. Sir Fujisaki. Yes, just two points. I agree that countries around the table should commit themselves to increase domestic demand. Point two, they have to commit themselves not to introduce protectionism and that's to not to go down the slippery slope as well. These two has to come hand in hand. And I was looking around the room and yes, I thought I saw my good colleague, Sherpa, here, Edson as well, who worked with me. Thank you. I think there was a question up here in the third row. Thank you, Tricia Lerner. I'm a Senior Political Advisor at Greenpeace International and I have a question for Ambassador Fujisaki. Thank you for your comments about the New Japanese government's mid-term targets. They definitely are to be welcomed and this may will be a game changer for the negotiations under the UN Framework Convention. As you well know, there are only three weeks of negotiating time left and as it now stands, the industrialized countries and the developing countries are very far apart. They are very much pressed and finance is considered to be key to breaking the deadline. So climate finance is on the agenda for the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh next week and yet in discussions with people close to planning for the event, everybody's downplaying and lowering the expectations for what will come out of that. And so my question to you is, is there some way that the Hattoyama initiative might invigorate the discussion and try to get some recommendations coming out on governance and scale and mechanisms of finance so that this can inject some momentum in the talks, which are in crisis? Thank you. Much for the question. First, the new Prime Minister has to make his position known in New York. What he said was before becoming Prime Minister, I think that would, but that of course will be reflected. He said, yes, we'll aim at 25 percent, provided other countries would do that, but that was not as a Prime Minister. So let's see what kind of priority position he'll take. As for the Pittsburgh finance issue, we have been supporting to take up this financial issue in the climate change and I think that position will not be changed. But as someone has said, the new government has come in just yesterday, so it's a little too early for me to sort of explain the position at this juncture. But I'll try as my best. Hi. My name's Ira Strauss. I appreciated the comments of the ambassadors. In particular, I noticed there were some comments which justified the existence of the G8 and that's a change compared to most of what we hear in public discussion and international discussion and I wondered if you could pursue that a little bit with regard to a couple questions. First, the G8 is under attack not just for what it does or doesn't do, but for what it is that it's the rich industrialized countries. Is it wrong or right for the rich industrialized democratic countries to talk with each other? Is there a good thing in that or are we the bad people of the world who really shouldn't talk to each other? I think that ought to be addressed directly. If you think we're not so bad, it might be worth explaining why because there's an awful lot of discussion based on the assumption that we are the bad guys of the world. Mr. Lula has given voice to that, for example. Second, regarding the related issues of OECD and IMF, should the OECD be abolished as an institution of like-minded first world countries or is it worth keeping it that way and not letting in every large third world country also? And regarding IMF and governance, is it true that the world balance has shifted? The main shift I can see in the world balance is that the Soviet Union no longer exists. That has been the one really big shift I've seen in the lifetime of these institutions. Regarding OECD or the first world's weight, it is greater as a part of world GDP than it was in the 60s or the 80s. So I don't see this shift. I wonder, is it real? Isn't the IMF already giving some weight to PPP factors in its weightings which already distort the balance somewhat toward the third world? Would it really be advisable to distort it further compared to the actual economic weights? Those are my several questions. I think those are an interesting question. I think one of the dynamics that he has touched on is the tension between elite organizations and selective organizations versus representatives. I will just make myself short because there are three big questions. I'll take just only the first one. I thought there was some reason of existence in G8 in coping, for example, with infectious disease, that relief amongst those donors, and that was only possible if donors tried to coordinate their position. I know that there are some different views as well, but I'll just limit to my first point. Anyone else? You've got time maybe for two more questions. I'd ask if you could please keep it to one question given the time, and I'll take them both and then ask you to comment on the two questions. I want to go to the woman four rows back there. Thank you, Xiong Ming, a Chinese reporter from the 21st century. This is Harold. The question is also about trade, but more looking at the short term. The first important trade policy decision that President Obama has made is to impose a tear off on Chinese tires, and this has raised concerns worldwide of a possible trade war in the future. So I want to hear from the ambassadors to the G20 leaders, show the G20 leaders made a stronger commitment when they meet to assure that a trade war will not happen and to assure the world against protectionism measures. Okay, thank you. One additional question, please if we could take it at the same time, right here in the front, gentleman on the right. Hello, Robert Charetto, an international investor. I was surprised we didn't hear much at all about financial reform, regulatory reform. Can you each comment? Is there a single reason why we won't believe that another crisis could unfold in three or five years? It seems as though the G20 has taken very little action in this regard. What do you hope to get out of Pittsburgh in terms of concrete proposals that will prevent a crisis in the future? Either of those questions. Ambassador Hanam? I think on some kind of financial regulations which may prevent some of the recurrence of the crisis, I think the agreements made in Washington and London are well underway. There are some other issues which need further consultations and G20 is very active in making those consultations leading into some concrete results. And there are also some institutions engaged in that. And I think in that area, I think G20 can make some consultation very good results. The question is if we agree on that, then how will that be translated into domestic actions? Sometimes the domestic actions is not very clear and sometimes diverge from what we agreed at such a forum as G20. That is another issue that we should deal with, including all multilateral financial institutions to know that. Ambassador Fujisaki? Can I comment on this trading point? I think, as I have already said, I think leaders have to take a strong position on not to introduce protectionism at the same time. It's very unlikely that G20 leaders or even myself would comment on anything that is happening in bilateral context or individual cases because these have to be discussed with facts and findings. And without having those as a third party, usually you would not do that. Thank you very much. Yes, as you know, the European Union's basic position is to, as I said before, open markets or against the protections. But we have to understand what the intent for open market is, a market without any hidden subsidies, no unfair commercial practices. It's not just a question of the final price as a product. How do you get to form the price out both on your market? When you say open frontier, open border, it must be real open, not just the final position of taxes. That is our concept of a free trade and a free market. I'd like to thank all of our ambassadors here and I hope you'll join me in thanking them for their excellent remarks and also for their leadership on these issues over the years and helping address the crisis and chart a way forward. Thank you very much.


Alright, so I know that Attack on Titan, or Shingeki no Kyojin, whichever name you prefer for it, I know that that ended several months ago, and that I am behind the curve on this. But I just finally got around to finishing off the manga. Like, I read it for years and years, and then, a while ago, I can't point to a specific reason why, but I just kind of lost interest in it, and so I stopped reading for a while, and then I heard that it ended, so I put it off for a little while, but I managed to avoid spoilers, and I finally finished it off, and so I think it was a really solid ending, not perfect by any means, but the series as a whole was really, really great, and I kind of just... I wanted to talk about it, so here I am, let's go. This is the introduction song. It's not very good, but it's not too long. So I'm gonna split this into three brief sections. There'll be a really short non-spoiler section for people who have not read it or watched the anime at all, and then I'm gonna do a minor spoiler section because there are some really big twists early on in the series that, like, it's basically impossible to talk about the whole series as a whole without going into detail on those, and I don't want to ruin that for anybody who doesn't want to get into this, so we'll have that, and then we'll have a major spoiler section where I talk about the ending.  Most of them are, or at least the biggest of them are around 15 meters tall, some of them are smaller than that, and humanity lives in this walled-off area.  And from there, the story unfolds in a lot of different directions. One of the really, really great things about this series that I think attracted so many people to it when it first came out, because I remember when the anime first came out like eight years ago, it was huge with people my age, even those who weren't normally huge into anime, because it was just really grim and violent and dark. Like, this was humanity's last stand as it fought against extinction, and so every moment of fear and panic feels genuine. And the characters, they don't really have like, superpowers, they can't shoot lasers from their hands or anything like you would normally expect from a Shonen manga. They're, for the most part, just regular humans, and they have some really cool equipment and stuff that they can use, like they have this stuff called, I've seen it translated as both 3D maneuver gear and omnidirectional maneuver gear, but it's basically they have two swords and they have hooks on their belts and they can shoot hooks out to like fly around the city, almost like Spider-Man swinging around. It's really neat. And they can use that to kill Titans, but even with training and omnidirectional maneuver gear and cannons and all that, Titans are still extremely difficult to kill, and so when they go into battle, people die left, right, and center. And so every moment of fear and panic feels genuine when it comes about, and there are a lot of moments where beloved characters die, or maybe beloved's not the right word, but there are a lot of moments where minor and major characters die, and they might not all be super well-developed or anything, but watching them get literally torn apart and eaten alive is still horrifying. The story is really, really fast-paced, except for a couple parts, but those mostly come later. Like early on, there's always something happening, there's tons of little twists and turns about what's going on, and there's a lot of mystery about the nature of the world and like what the Titans are, where they came from, and so that really kept me going throughout the early part of this series, both the anime and the manga. And while a lot of the side characters are not super memorable, most of the main cast is really solid.   Like no, he wants to go out and murder every last Titan in existence. So he has a very clear-cut goal from the beginning, and that does change over time as we understand more about this world, but he's a very focused character and that's something that I feel a lot of protagonists lack, especially Shonen protagonists, and so seeing that was just really great. And honestly, I can apply that to the series as a whole. Like this is still a Shonen manga, but it doesn't really feel like a traditional one at the very least, and so that helps set it apart, and I really wish that we would see more stuff like this, more stuff that's a little more mature and yada yada. And so I think that's it for the non-spoiler section. If you have not heard anything about Attack on Titan and you're interested in it, I would recommend checking it out, like either the anime or the manga, because they're both pretty good in my opinion. The only real criticism I have of the manga that isn't spoiler-related is that I'm not a fan of the artwork. Something about it, I don't know the terminology for it, but it seems like a lot of the characters and everything are... They don't have really defined borders around their silhouettes, and so they kind of fade into the background sometimes. And that works great for action scenes, it really does, but when it's just dialogue scenes or something, it doesn't work great. And on a related note, a lot of characters do have same-face syndrome, because it's such a large cast, so there's people who get introduced and for a moment I'll think, wait, is that someone else we already know? No, no, okay, that's a new person, they just look too similar. So that's annoying, but on to minor spoilers.  You know, I heard they'd be naked, but that's a lot more naked than I expected. Okay, so minor spoiler stuff. The first half of this series is absolutely phenomenal.  How does this even work, what's going on? And he doesn't know how these powers work, where they came from, anything like that. And so just the process of him learning about that is really great. And even once he gets mastery over his powers, and even later he starts gaining more unique powers, he's never... how do I put this? He's never too strong, I don't think. Like, there's never any points where he can just blow through his enemies with no problems. Like, all of... not just Aaron, but all of the other titan shifters as well, like the colossal titan and the armored titan and the others that show up, they all have weaknesses, they all have ways that they can be defeated if they're not careful. So both the heroes and the villains have to be kind of tactical in their battles, and that's always a lot of fun. One issue is that in the early series, regular titans are absolutely terrifying, especially in that first real battle where Aaron is killed. But... just as time goes on and he can turn into the assault titan whenever he wants, or not whenever he wants, but most of the time, and we start being introduced to more characters like Levi, who regular titans are nothing to him. I like Levi, he's super badass, but you know, regular titans are absolutely nothing to him. So they become less scary over time. And for a while, yeah, that does make the series a bit less... it lacks that dark intensity factor that I had at the beginning, where, like I said, every moment of fear and panic felt genuine, but this part, from this point on, it just doesn't quite have that. Until we hit another really big twist, I'd say about three quarters of the way through the whole series, which I'll leave that for major spoilers again, but like the nature of the world completely warps when that happens, or at least the perception of the nature of the world, but that's kind of semantic, whatever. The point is, from this point on, Aaron continues to get more and more development, like he realizes, okay, I can't just go out and start killing titans with no purpose. Like I have to work with other people, I have to learn to rely on them, and I also have to get better so that they can rely on me. And he kind of calms down a little bit. I feel very focused and very driven, but he calms down a lot, and I liked that. There is a whole story arc, because like the government of Attack on Titan from the beginning is implied to be extremely corrupt, and it's also implied that they know a lot more than they're letting on about like where the titans came from and how the walls were constructed and all that. And so there's a really long story arc, about halfway through the series, where they, um, well, sure, why not, this is a minor spoiler. The main characters have to try to work to overthrow their government and replace it with a better one, which, I mean, that sounds good on paper, but it just lasts a bit too long. And that's something I would say for a lot of parts of the series is that they just outstay their welcome a little bit, especially the climax, the last, let's say, 20 chapters, I think really only needed to be 10 or 11 chapters. And granted, there's a lot of action and everything, which is really cool, but it's like they keep introducing new scenarios. It's like, okay, now we saved the day. Wait, no we didn't? Okay, now we saved the day. And that's a little obnoxious, and that sort of thing happens a lot during the overthrow of the government arc as well. And part of the reason for this is Attack on Titan's really weird plot structure, or maybe not really weird, but sometimes what they'll do is they'll show events, like they'll show some crazy event happening, and then they'll show flashbacks for a while to show what led up to that. And then they'll just go normal for a while, and then crazy event, and then flashback to show what went up to it. And that means we spend a lot of time on flashbacks, not all of which are always needed. Most of the time it's fine, but there are a couple of flashbacks where I just go, eh, we really didn't need that to be there. Like if you remember in my Manga I Like and Dislike video, I mentioned one called Witch Hunter. That one has a similar structure, and it's not great if I'm being honest. Like if you want to do that once or twice in a long series like this, that's fine, but they do it a lot more than that. So overall the first half of this series is, well it's better than the second half, but not by a lot. At least in terms of plotting. Now, once we get to that part that I mentioned where your whole perception of the world shifts, things do start to get a little more intense again because you realize how much danger all these people are in. Like something I've noticed in a lot of things is that when you open up a story in this strange mysterious world and you don't understand that much about the world or how it works and the characters don't understand that much about how it works and finding out these mysteries is their driving desire, I guess, their driving motivation, that's the word. And it's super dangerous and you don't know what's going on. Then that beginning part is really great and it's super tense and yada yada. It's really fun and I noticed the same problem with Kingdom Hearts actually. But then later on, once you understand at least part of all this you don't necessarily need to know everything but once you start to explore more of the world and it becomes less mysterious and less scary you lose that intensity factor.  What are all these heartless attacking me for? Why do I have this Keyblade? And then later on he starts to learn more about oh, okay, all these Disney worlds are out there and these Disney villains are doing bad things and then Ansem shows up and so the world while it does still have mysteries to it is no longer as scary as it once was because it doesn't feel as big as it once was and Attack on Titan has that for a while but then once you find out what's in the basement it shifts again and everything's scary again. So overall if you're a person that has read or watched some Attack on Titan but for whatever reason you just haven't continued I would recommend you continue because the series it is about more than just fighting Titans, you know, it's not just oh Titans are attacking, let's fight them off oh Titans are attacking, let's fight them off you know it's not like The Walking Dead or zombie stuff like that there is a lot of interpersonal conflict between various factions in like the government and the military and things like that which are much more intelligent you know people can't just brute force their way through it or come up with a smart battle strategy or anything like that they have to actually work with people and find out how to convince people of their ideals I suppose and they have to well politically maneuver stuff and it's actually done really well for the most part it's just out stays its welcome a little bit and like I said there's a lot of characters who die no one ever really feels that safe except for like the core cast but that's pretty common in most forms of media and so all the minor spoilers stuff yeah I just I still recommend this series it's really good it's not a traditional shounen it's pretty mature in a lot of ways go check it out you know it's a real good way for burning off calories okay so now as for the ending okay I cannot sit here and explain all of the exposition for the ending because we're gonna be here all fucking day so I'm just going to do this assuming that you also have read slash watched up until the end of the series because there's there's just too much there so once Aaron gets the power of the founder Titan he decides yeah I'm gonna do the rumbling where he releases all the colossal Titans in the walls and he's just gonna destroy the entire world he's gonna kill everybody who isn't on Paradise Island so that he can save his friends save his people and then his friends have to go to great lengths to stop him and even then they don't manage to stop him all the way he still wipes out substantial portion of the planet's population and that really sucks but then it turns out at the end that he was like no I'm just gonna kill a bunch of people and then my friends are going to kill me in the process which will make them seem like heroes and because they're Eldians it will make people not hate Eldians that much which is stupid and then the series ends with Aaron being dead and the the world is not exactly at peace anymore because or anymore not exactly at peace because the ultra hardcore ethno-nationalist Eldians took control of Paradise Island and the rest of the world knows that the Eldians attacked them and almost killed all of them and just because some of the good ones as they might call them came along and saved them they might not necessarily still like Eldians they're probably still going to hate them so that bit's kind of stupid and so the series doesn't have a complete happy ending which I do like I do like how it's like okay things we saved the day that one time but things are still not great right now we're still gonna have to do a lot of work to make things work out properly so yeah I did like that aspect of it I just wish it had been thought out more because here's the thing even with the technology that they've been able to steal slash build over the past couple of years the Eldians on Paradise Island are still at a huge disadvantage that compared to everybody else and everybody else still controls most of the special Titans I forget what they're called but like the Assault Titan and the Warhammer Titan and the Armor Titan all that they still control most of them and well there aren't that many Titans left to use like regular ones to just throw at anybody really and so the world has calmed down for the moment but it seems like it's just going right into another conflict so it seems like Eren killed a whole bunch of people for no reason and then sacrificed himself for very little reason this reminds me of the ending of Code Geass in a way which is one of my favorite anime I'll fully admit to that where Lelouch takes over the whole world and makes himself like an evil tyrant like the most evil tyrant of all time and then lets himself be killed so that people will unite around that they'll be like yes we hate this guy we're all united now that he's gone everything's great which really doesn't work that well in real life but at least it was set up in a way in such a way in the show where it does make more sense like because in real life for example World War II the Axis powers everybody hated them but then when they came together and defeated them the Cold War happened right after they weren't friends forever one thing I do have to add about this ending is that some people have accused it of being fascist and no I really don't think it is because the ethno-nationalist Eldians are pretty much portrayed they're the bad guys you know they want to wipe out the entire world at the end and the good guys the main characters have to fight to defeat them and when they were mostly successful they killed like what was it four fifths of the entire planet they killed or maybe it was just that one continent I'm not totally sure but they killed a lot of people and they're unequivocally the bad guys there and likewise you have the other groups like the Marlians and the other people who like hate the Eldians and oppress them like crazy like they are explicitly drawn and treated they're drawn in such a way to evoke imagery of the holocaust is what I should say like they wear armbands with stars on them like they're forced to do so they're forced to live in these little ghettos and they can only leave with a specific permission at one point near the end they're in a train and they're fleeing the rumbling trying to get somewhere safe and it just shows this one panel of the inside of the train which looks exactly like the inside of a cattle car like the trains that would get sent to Auschwitz and shit so it's pretty clear that mistreating people based on like their ancestry or ethnicity however you want to put that is portrayed as a bad thing whereas fascism is usually like there is a hierarchy of people and being part of one group just automatically makes you better than being part of other groups it's a lot like racism and in most cases it is just straight up racism but it's not quite the exact thing like sometimes this is based on like religion or wealth or something like that well it's always based on wealth let's be honest but that is a pretty fascist ideal and this series is like a straight up refutation of that so no the ending is not fascist and as for like the actual climax like the fighting and all that I think that is amazing because the last like 30 chapters of the series is just like constant bam something's happening something crazy is happening something crazy is happening and the heroes never get out of their whatever situations they're in easily like there's not a single point where they just get out with no sacrifices and with no trouble like that does not happen every time they run into trouble they have to use ingenuity to get out of it and a lot of times they lose people along the way like this is one of those climaxes where a whole lot of characters die like both side characters and major ones and so it's a bit heavy to read through sometimes like I said earlier I do kind of wish it had been trimmed down a bit because you know you have that big battle between the Marlians and the Eldians at Shiganshina and then Eren gets the founder Titan and they defeat all the Marlians and so like the day's saved but then the rumbling happens and they go off to destroy everything so they're like oh okay we have to we have to go and save everybody and they're like okay maybe we can get ahead of it with this airplane that we have so they're like okay let's go to that airplane but then that is being held by soldiers who want to destroy the world the hardcore Eldian nationalists they're usually called Jagerists it's being held by them so we have to come up with a plan to get past them and then we have to fight past them and we lose people along the way and that's all difficult and that takes up time and then they get ahead of it a little ways and it's like oh we run into more trouble which is kind of bullshit in some ways like apparently a soldier held on to the side of their boat for like the days it took them to get to wherever they were going and then he shoots at them and he doesn't even do that much damage really he just hurts their plane a little bit and they manage to patch it up it's kind of dumb and doesn't really lead anywhere and then they finally get to fighting the founder Titan let's call it and all the rumbling and they're fighting it and it looks like oh we won and everything stops and it's like oh no we're still going it just they could have cut it down quite a bit and one really annoying bit as well is how in order to give like a face to all the civilians or civilians and innocent soldiers semi-innocent soldiers let's say because we don't know exactly what they've been doing the past couple years but anyways all these civilians and soldiers who don't want to die in the rumbling they need to give a face to that so they just keep cutting back to Annie's dad among them and the problem is that Annie's dad is introduced like right as the rumbling starts and we don't know that much about him we certainly aren't attached to him before this point so like I don't care that much you know like it would almost be better if it was like hey we just need to save these faceless crowds because there is a scene where like we see this infant all wrapped up and it's in a crowd of people trying to flee or rather it's mom is carrying it in a crowd of people trying to flee from the rumbling and they reach the edge of a cliff and people start getting pushed off because others are trying to just move away from the Titans and the mom like just holds the infant up and other people start grabbing it and passing it back and mom like gets pushed off the cliff more people behind her keep getting pushed off and so like this one faceless baby or not faceless per se but this one baby who we know nothing about I think that just does the job a lot better and it takes up a lot less time than Annie's dad because it's kind of like the ending of Amazing Spider-Man 2 where like Electro shuts down all the power and there are two planes that are about to crash into each other but they don't know it and it's like oh we have to save the people on the planes but we don't know anybody on the planes so instead it keeps cutting back to Aunt May in the hospital but Aunt May is not even really in any danger so it's just weird like if you were going to do something like that you should have just put a character we like such as Aunt May on the plane but really most of that is pretty nitpicky I'll be totally honest it's not that big a deal I really really liked Attack on Titan I am not afraid to admit that it's a pretty great series even if you have heard about this ending here and you haven't read the series you're probably very confused about all the terms and everything I just used and I'd say hey check out the rest of the series so that you know what's going on because just trying to learn all of the mysteries behind all this is really compelling and if you don't already know it then it'll probably still surprise you a lot of the time and it's just a good story it's well paced for the most part it's very tense very action heavy action packed but that's not all there is to it a lot of the characters are really likeable and even the ones that aren't necessarily likeable are still good and it takes place in kind of an interesting world I think that once you get into the world outside the walls it's a little bit lazy but it's not too bad like just overall I really 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One of the things I love to do with Elementor is trying to figure out how to add certain features and functions without resorting to a third party plugin. And then I love sharing all that with you. One of those things that I've recently had to do for my own personal site was to add a condition on showing certain content based if somebody is logged in or logged out. So I found a way to do this and actually the way I found was quite simple like all we are going to do is copy and paste a little snippet of PHP here. We're going to copy and paste a little snippet of CSS right here. And then we're going to use a class to add to any widget in Elementor that we could hide based on if a user is logged in or logged out. What's up, everyone? I'm Jeffrey at Lightbox. And in this video, I'm going to walk you through how to display content based on conditions, whether a user is logged in or logged out with Elementor. And if you do find content like this helpful, then don't forget to subscribe because it really does help to support this channel and helps me to keep putting this stuff out and sharing my goodies and tricks that I'm using myself. All right, cool. Let's go ahead and check it out and have some fun. I really quickly to give an example of how this could work. I'm using it on my own personal website. So here's my site for my academy right here. And you can see on my nav menu, I got my account here. Now, if I were to go to incognito and view it as somebody not logged in, you're going to see the menu is different. It's going to have a member log in right over here. So that way, if somebody isn't logged in, then they could go ahead and log in. They've got a place to log in. But if we go here to somebody logged in, then they could go and see their dashboard. But let's say also somebody not logged in wants to go to the My Account page. Well, if they go to the My Account page, then the dashboard is going to be hidden because there's nothing to show inside the dashboard. And instead for a better user experience, there's a login form right here. And this is just one case where having conditional content based on the user logged in or logged out could be very useful. For this tutorial, we're going to be using this demo site right here. And we're going to apply conditions to these two buttons. So we have open a new account. And we want this to only show for people who are not logged in. And then we have the visit dashboard, which should only show for logged in users. Now to do this, it's only going to take a few steps. So the first step is we have a PHP snippet right here. We need a copy and paste inside the website. I'll walk you through that right now. And also, you could find this code, the PHP and the CSS in the link inside the description. It's totally free, no strings attached at all. Please feel free to use it on any project. It's all good. All right, so let's go back here and to your dashboard. We're going to add our PHP inside our child theme. Now it's really important that we are using a child theme. If you do not have a child theme, then make sure to add one first before adding this. Another option is to use a plugin like code snippets, where you can add your PHP right inside there. So I'll leave that up to you where you want to add your PHP. But in this tutorial, we're going to add it in our child theme. So I'm going to go over here. Let's make sure that it is a child theme. This is super important. And then I'm going to select themes functions for the functions PHP. And right down in here, I'm going to copy and paste and update. Now really quickly to explain what this little snippet is doing right here. This is adding a class. This class here logged in condition. Or this class here logged out condition to the body tag based on if the user is logged in or logged out. And by having this class added here on these conditions, now we can use CSS to target this condition. And in this case, we're going to use it to hide content based on if somebody's logged in or logged out. So the next step is going to be grabbing our CSS.  That's it. So it's only a little bit of code to accomplish this right here. We don't need a membership plugin or anything like that. All right, so let's copy and paste this now for our CSS. There is a few places where we could put it and you probably have your own preference. But I'm going to strongly suggest for this particular case to put it inside your customizer. And the reason why I'm suggesting to put it right here is because it will not cache. And it'll load right when the website is loading. Now we are hiding content. And if we put it somewhere where it's caching or it's in a file that takes time to read, there could be a chance that the hidden content could flash or show when the page is loading. And we don't want that to happen. And the best way to prevent that flash at millisecond, look at the flash of the content. We put it here in the customizer. All right, let's go ahead and publish. And quickly, let me explain what this is doing here. So all this is doing is using the classes that we got from our PHP that goes inside the body tag. And we're using the display none to hide, which we could hide any widget that we want. And then we got two new classes, we have this class hide logged in. And then we have hide logged out. And we are going to use these two classes right here inside our elements or widgets. And wherever we put this class is going to hide based on this condition. So let's go ahead and do that to our demo page. Let me go into edit with Elementor. I'm going to go to open a new account. Now we want to hide this one for logged in users. So I'm just going to put here in my CSS class, hide logged in. I'm logged in. So it automatically hid already. Now it's disappeared from here. So you got to use your navigator if you want to go back into it. So if I want to go back into I got to pull up my navigator so I could access it because it is just hidden for me since I'm logged in. Now let's do the same thing for our visit dashboard. We're going to go to our visit dashboard here in our CSS class. Now we want to hide this for anybody who is logged out. So I'm going to put hide logs out and then I'm going to update it. Now it's still showing for me because I am logged in. Let's take a look in the front end. And we can see the other button sign up button is now gone. But if I were to log out and let me go to the front end. Now we could see the go to the dashboard button is gone since I am not logged in. And that's it. You could add these classes to any widget and you can hide any type of content on the website. All you got to do is put the class inside the CSS class that you want to hide. And that's it. It's a very simple solution. Now this is a simple solution right here. But if you do have a situation where it is more sensitive to hide and protect content from logged out users, then in that case you might want to use a membership plugin because well we're using display known with CSS and anybody that knows how to use inspect element and CSS, if they know what to look for, they could change it around like you could go to my website right now since I showed you what to look for and you could use inspect element and see the stuff that I'm hiding. But mine isn't sensitive. I don't care if anybody sees it. I'm fully transparent. I'm only hiding content on my website for a better user experience. In a first situation like that, this is a really easy trick that I wanted to share and I hope it helps out. I hope you found this tutorial helpful and if you have any questions, drop them inside the comments. I'd be happy to help everybody else out. Also, I got a question for all of you. What do you think about Elementor building conditions right into the Elementor builder when we don't have to resort to third party plugins or even adding in custom snippets? Would you like to see that? I think we need to make a lot of noise for Elementor for certain features we want to see Elementor bring. We already got the loop builder coming in. The container now is going to finalize. I think this is a good time for us to start making noise and start asking Elementor, hey, we want to build this. Can you please start adding this in? I personally feel adding conditions into Elementor would be super dope. I would love to see that. What do you think though? I would like to hear from you. Well, if you did like this, make sure to like and subscribe as well. If you really like content for web designers and web developers, I'd be happy to keep making more and I appreciate the support and I'll be back again soon. All right. Thank you for watching.


Lance Corporal Taylor Atkins has been a Marine for a year and a half and has already taken advantage of leadership opportunities. The 20-year-old rifleman is serving a seven-month deployment to Marja, Afghanistan, and has picked up many roles in his squad. He says having a wide range of experience is preparing him to become a leader. I mean, I'm ready to take on responsibility, and I try to do my best when given that. Platoon Commander First Lieutenant Brian Anderson says the efforts of the Marines under his command never go unnoticed.  That goes a long way. Just as the Marines here are ready to transfer security responsibilities to Afghan forces, senior Marines are also ready to pass leadership responsibilities to their junior Marines. Reporting from Marja, Afghanistan, I'm Marine Sergeant Michael C. Fuentes.


Ladies and gentlemen welcome back to Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood today. We have death of the end dying last episode was a pretty big one I mean it feels like all these storylines are kind of starting to clash scars getting involved with the death of Winery's parents Hawkeye is in trouble on this tower with gluttony while at the same time down below They're dealing with the butchers real body I think a lot of people are starting to realize how corrupt everything is how corrupt the government is last episode We found out of course that Maria Ross is actually still alive It was all known to Mustang how she was framed and he wanted to just get her out of the situation without having to kill her because I'm pretty sure he recognized that if he hadn't it would have resulted in her death Anyways or at least the trial being concluded with her dying So I mean it was either her dying being convicted of being guilty or just making her death and her being able to live We even saw her crying as she was rode away and through the desert with this other land because I mean she has to Leave her whole life behind even her parents Canada. She's still alive. So we're gonna hop right into it Let's uh get going this piece of info is supposed to be confidential Nothing's confidential around him. He's got a plan to smoke out some military guys. He's been after the fifth laboratory. I'll knows exactly what I got a fine Hey, that's a fast. Tell me your secret first. I'll tell you when I get back. Okay. Come on. That's so unfair I'll be back soon. Ling just wants to be in a loop on everything dude. It's so bizarre I promise I don't like this this title card either death of the undying Oh my gosh Mustang saver mustang has to be like right there.  Oh wait hit him off of the guy.  Oh my gosh. Well, they could have just run down the stairs technically We're caring about his friends. Don't go finish the job The heck was that please? He clearly has written in the powers sergeant. Don't leave a single trick Little puppy at least the puppies. Okay, what a brave dog. Thanks for saving us back. Oh now you thank him Let's just stay focused on the mission for now That's that little smirk like Ow Let him in Dude it's just not even there. It's so weird I love how Barry is like on their side From that blubberbeast back there. I doubt it.  He's like Yeah on his tongue So you probably should turn around that's just not possible Yeah, that's what I thought until I got kidnapped by a homunculus called himself one thing He told me is that nothing is impossible. I watched greed get the top half of his head knocked off I wonder if this other Barry is gonna lead them right to where The sins are like he wants to return home naturally No, you didn't you didn't see he just landed Red eyes Yeah, let him write to it if so There you go, that's all we need for now. Well, you have fun with that get back here That psycho stormed the building you ran in oh cuz he does the dirty work Mustang doesn't have to be very clearly involved and clearly Barry's gonna be able to get past them the first kind of outer walls Now must evacuate immediately. Oh and then they play it off as the oh as them chasing Barry very nice Very clean mustang how the hell are we supposed to find it? We're gonna have to split up But now gluttonies just chilling out there. Why do you have to split up? It doesn't look like anybody's used this lab in a while, but whatever they did here was pain It's bad enough that you stood me up on our date now you point a gun at me Solaris, what's going on? Hey, have it girls got the tattoo first. I've seen I Can see how she tricked you so easily. I've always been a sucker for big boo Did you tell this woman anything Sir, do you know who maze uses yes, he was quite the intelligent man wouldn't you agree? I only wish I'd had the opportunity to pick his brain On your knees don't think that matters to her sorry to say Yeah, but it's gonna take more than you're capable of to make me get on my Merciless did you pick that up an ish ball Monculous she has the tattoo It's a philosopher stone. Oh I was created with this stone at my core It's not just a legend. It's my way so do all of them have that you're a monster even Gluttony do have feelings got a funny feeling the only reason you're telling us this is cuz you don't plan on letting us live Just run. Oh She flooded the room with water a simple transmutation. We've got hydrogen gas. Ah, yes, exactly what I was thinking There's no way you're actually sad about that and giving me a light here. Ah, she's dust. I definitely cremated her See the body You mean from that time you spent an ish ball you have to assume that they're still alive I've learned literally that from Mustang. Yes, he faked burning a body My gosh, it's painful, dude That's horrifying. Well, you got a lot of her body There's nothing you can do that'll kill me. It was more just a distractor Happening dude. Don't know that much about you don't know what's gonna happen. Don't do it right now.  Oh No The criminal responsible for the prison break has stormed the premises, but Colonel Mustang and his men are in pursuit Well, then I'll give him some back. I'm very good. We're right behind you, sir I prefer to handle it on my own. I told you. Yeah once a philosopher stone is a person. It's like It can't be used for anyone else. I really hate to do this. You were Save your breath.  My body is dead near entirely decay I guess a body just can't hold up with someone else's soul being shocked inside of it If a soul is incompatible with another person's body be the same for a soul bonded to a suit of armor I Was wondering you were gonna show up lusty care to explain why you're helping the Colonel I thought it'd be fun to switch things up. I've wanted to chop you up since I met you. You're such a hand Is someone help musting sad to see you here armor boy.  Gallantry.  I think I was about to send the lieutenant to join her superior So when you said you'd already had to kill someone Not accepting Mustang staff until I see his body. That's why I see him like dead dead Such a sad and weak. There's no way dude. It's Mustang.   He's throwing himself in the way She even touches that mark but where's Bradley she almost got him how is she still alive? I thought Bradley was gonna walk up in the middle of that.  There he is. He's just watching cuz why reveal himself if any of them escaped It's it's over for him. Oh the scars Oh my god, is that like Very is freed. Oh my god So much happened in this episode.  Oh my gosh There was way too much to unpack there.  So next episode we may see that's like the reunion I'm just proud of Al honestly kids stood his ground so hard There was no way he could have beat less alone and he knew that he still stood for Hawkeye. Oh my gosh Rip havoc, but Mustang is a beast what an absolute beast guys That is it for this episode way too much to unpack there. That was a lot in a very short span of time I'm so excited to see what happens with this potential reunion next episode probably like Reasons for why Alan Ed's dad have been gone like I said from the very beginning I thought he fit a bigger piece of the puzzle from the very beginning like there's like there's probably a Much bigger reason that he left very early on I has a lot more to do with their story than they're aware of but still oh my gosh It has so much to learn when they get back Especially with how each homunculus has a philosopher stone inside of them.  I love you all and I will see you next time


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