Turn around. Yeah. Can you come here? Vinnie. Yeah, I know. I know. Step up. Step up. Come on. You're so crazy. You know that? Step up.  You are clear. But Vinnie, can you make another video? I need to do a horizontal one. Come on. You want to do another video?  No, you're not. Just because we had to do it a few times. I'm not going to argue with you. Can we do it one more time? You want to take some pictures? You love taking pictures with mom? Yeah, you want to kiss? Yeah.  Well, Vinnie. If you don't mind, I just need to make one more version of this. Is that okay? Yeah, so let's try this again, shall we? How's this going to work out? We could take some pictures. Is that all right? We're not going to watch TV right now. Vinnie. You messed up my hair, though. Landing on it and doing whatever you've been doing. You're so crazy. Okay, you ready? That's not true. I've been ready this whole time.  I know.


Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and a very special welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and I'm on WW personal points. It's May, so it is time for my April favorites. I have so many, so many WW food favorites like an entire basket full. I have beauty favorites for you as well. So many things I've been loving over the last month. I can't wait to share them with you. So if you're excited for a huge favorites video give this one a big huge thumbs up. Subscribe if you're not because I upload lots and lots of new videos every single week and I do a favorites once a month. So make sure your bells turn on so you never miss a future video. Check out the description box down below where I will link everything that I share with you today with the exception of the foods that you can find at your local grocery store. You'll also find nutrition coaching where I offer personalized to you macros and calories highly recommend and one-on-one coaching if you would like to talk with me directly. Links, discounts to all of my other favorite things and of course my Facebook group come on over join us there are linked down in that description box. So without further ado, let's jump into all my April favorites. First we're going to start with WW foods and like I mentioned, I have a lot of them. So my first food favorite is one that I've been literally loving and these are the P3 portable protein snack packs. I buy these at Walmart. They're less than $2. They have several different kinds. This one's my favorite. It has chicken, Monterey Jack cheese and cashews in it. It is 160 calories and it has 10 grams of protein. So this is such a great snack and like it says, it's portable. So whenever I'm out and about or if I had to work in an office or was out seeing clients for real estate, this would be my go-to snack because it's packed with protein and it's really good. The meat's good, the cheese is good and I love that they throw in some nuts which is a healthy, fat and extra source of protein. So I absolutely love these and highly recommend. Next up are these particular Clio bars or this particular flavor. This is the Berry Aussite E flavored less sugar yogurt bar from Clio Snacks. Now I found this at Whole Foods. That's the only place that I found this particular flavor. This is the one that has one gram of sugar, seven grams of protein and only 100 calories. So I love these for a dessert because I get in seven grams of protein, no sugar and they taste really good. And this Aussite E Berry one, so good. It's so fresh and bright and berry forward. I really, really love this flavor. Next up, from Imperfect Foods. You know I love Imperfect Foods. This is their tzatziki dip. Now I love tzatziki dip, any tzatziki dip but I don't know what voodoo magic's in this one. From Imperfect Foods, but it is so good. It has a little tiny chunks of cucumber so it gives that crunch factor when you're eating the dip. I love it with crackers, with pita bread. I love to put this on turkey burgers or hamburgers or add this as the condiment on a sandwich. It is so, so good. It's my favorite tzatziki dip I've ever tried. And again, this is from Imperfect Foods. It's their brand. I'll put Imperfect Foods down in the description box for you with $20 worth of free groceries. So $20 worth of free food, no minimum order. You can go ahead and grab Imperfect Foods if it's in your area and don't forget to add their tzatziki dip. Speaking of dips, I also got this one from Imperfect Foods but I know that you can find the good foods brand at most grocery stores. This is their creamy ranch yogurt dip. So good. It's thick. It's ranchy if that's a word and I love to dip my vegetables in this. Carrots, cucumbers, mushrooms, bell peppers. It's so good. And I've also been known to use both of these as a condiment on the sandwich, on my sandwich. Less points, less calories, lots of flavor. The ranch one, 10 out of 10. Another favorite as always are my verb energy bars but this is a new product to the verb energy line. This is their variety pack. So in this particular bag, you get three different really popular, really delicious verb energy bars. Five of each bar. They're 90 calories a piece and only three points per bar. So in this variety pack, you get chocolate chip banana bread, vanilla latte and cookie butter. All three of those flavors are delicious. This particular one is cookie butter and this is the size of the bar. They are nice and chewy. So they're similar to a granola bar texture but they're chewy and soft. They're really delicious. Three points, 90 calories, 65 milligrams of caffeine which is the same as a shot of espresso. So it's a great pre-workout, post-workout, afternoon pick-me-up really anytime during the day. I always, always have one of these in my purse because they're so good and I love that little bit of a pick-me-up. I will link verb energy bars down below for you. With that link, you get $10 off this pack. So it's only $15 for 15 bars plus with that link verb throws in six extra bars for you. So you actually get almost another half of a bag for free when you purchase the sample pack. The best pick-me-up bar ever. From Trader Joe's, this seasoning is a must-have. It's always sunny in Arizona but we're moving into spring and summer in most areas and most countries and this is the ideal rub or seasoning for the barbecue. We love this on hamburgers. Every time we cook a hamburger or a turkey burger or a chicken burger this is my go-to seasoning. It says rub and seasoning with coffee and garlic. Now my husband doesn't like coffee and he doesn't think that this has a coffee taste to it but I think the coffee in here just enhances all of the other flavors. It is a seasonal product at Trader Joe's so I always buy at least two when it's out but it's a fantastic rub for barbecue food. Speaking of seasoning, I'm obsessed with this one from McCormick Grown Mates. This is the Smokey Applewood Marinade Mix. We use this to marinate the meat on our kebabs. This is so good on chicken, so good on chicken. It's one of my all-time favorite seasonings from Grillmates. I count this as zero points. It does have 10 calories per 3 quarter teaspoon and it says that there's 11 servings in here. I think it would be zero points per serving anyways but I do not count points for any seasonings but this one is good on all meats. I've shared these bars quite a few times over on my Instagram. If you don't follow me on Instagram I'll put it here for you. That's how you can keep up with me day to day. I post on there all the time especially in my stories and I've been sharing these Love Good Fats bars. I discovered these at Whole Foods and fell in love with them. I purchased them at Sprouts. These have two grams of sugar, nine grams of protein, five net carbs, they're 190 calories per bar and they're so good. They're a coated bar and the inside of them is kind of a sandy texture but not in a bad way.  It's really hard to explain but it's really good and then there's chunks of flavor and cookie in there which adds that nice crunch. They are really good and they keep me full. I use these mainly as a snack but honestly you could even use these as a meal replacement. They're delicious. I've tried several of the flavors and loved every single one of them. Next up is from Oikos and this is their Oikos Pro Yogurt. This is their protein yogurt. It has 20 grams, two zero grams of protein per little container and it's really good. It's thick, it's creamy. The flavors that they have all taste really good. The peach, my absolute favorite. I love adding some cereal or some granola to this for a crunch and I absolutely love that is 20 grams of protein. This is a great, great way to help you reach your protein goals. In a recent what I eat in a day I shared this new true fruit find. I actually shared with you guys the chocolate covered banana. This is the coconut melts. These are so good. These are so delicious. I love the true fruit brand in general. You know I bought their frozen blueberries, strawberries, raspberries in the past and I love them. These, you can see that I found these at Ross for 4.99 a bag. The banana ones are delicious. These are also delicious. They have a creamy coconut center in this really good high quality milk chocolate. It's 150 calories per serving which is a quarter of a cup. There are four servings in this little bag so it's a really good amount. So good. So good and the ingredients in true fruit are really, really high quality. So if you can find these, actually if you find these anywhere besides Ross let me know so that I can go buy them because I love them. Here's another product I've been loving and I picked this up from Imperfect Foods as well. This is from the brand Ancient Harvest and this is their quinoa with sea salt. These are pre-cooked little microwaveable pouches. It makes it so easy to make quinoa. If you've ever made quinoa from scratch, you know that it takes a while for it to get soft and fluffy. This is just really convenient. You rip it open about two inches, pop it in your microwave for 90 seconds and you have perfect fluffy, delicious quinoa. They're affordable. The whole pouch is 430 calories. They say the pouch is at one serving but I usually get at least two or three servings out of the little pouch. It's just really easy to make quinoa. Quinoa's so healthy for you and this tastes delicious and again is from Imperfect Foods.  These are another goodie that I've been sharing quite a bit in my meal preps, in my what I eat in a days and these are the Reese's Zero sugar. Now these are just the little mini Reese's Peanut Butter cups. Honestly, these taste exactly like the full sugar one. I don't notice any difference at all. You can have three of these for 110 calories. I usually have one as a dessert and it just satisfies that whole chocolate peanut butter craving. These are delicious. And like I said, to me, they don't taste any different than the regular Reese's Peanut Butter cups and you can save yourself points, calories and sugar. And we're at the last of my huge list of WW food favorites and this is from the brand Milton's. These are their Cheesy Cheddar Crackers. Now let me open these up so I can show you what the cracker looks like. So this is the size of the cracker. I would say it's just a hair bigger than a Cheez-It. There are five servings in this bag, 16 crackers per serving for 130 calories. These are delicious. These are better than Cheez-It's. They're light, they're crispy and they're airy and they have such a good cheese flavor. I love to dip these in this ranch dip. It's so good. These are good in hummus. These are good as a crunchy snack by themselves. Really delicious. So if you can find these, I found these at Fry's which is a Kroger store for admirer. There's many stores under the Kroger umbrella but that's where I found these. Even better, they're an organic cracker so they're a higher quality, so good. That was a lot of WW food favorites and I actually have some other new foods that I've been testing out but I'll save them for the next favorites video because I want to make double triple sure that they truly are a favorite. So now let's jump into my April Beauty and Skincare favorites. Perfume, you already know I love perfume. You know I love dossier. Dossier is such a great brand. They replicate high-end fragrances for affordable prices. Their prices are $29 to $39 per bottle rather than hundreds of dollars per bottle. The scent has a excellent lasting power and honestly, they are a dead-on match to the high-end fragrances for a much, much more affordable price. So I decided to add two new dossier fragrances to my collection in the month of April and I love both of them. So I wanted to share them with you. The packaging is so nice. These make great gifts for the perfume lover in your life. You always receive a card. It lets you know the name of the perfume, what high-end fragrance it replicates, the notes of it and the bottles are so nice. I love the magnet lid. I love that so much because I can throw these in my purse and I don't ever have to worry about the lid coming off. So in April, I grabbed two new scents. First is the Amber Cherry and this is inspired by Tom Ford Lost Cherry Odie Perfume. So the top notes in this one are Cherry, Almond and Cinnamon, which I love for spring and summer, that kind of fruity, spicy note. The middle notes are Clothes, Rose, Jasmine and Plum and the base notes are Peru, Balsam, Tonka Bean and Vanilla. It's so yummy.  It has a very, very, very light, balsam kind of musky scent to it. It smells so good. It's a gourmand sweet smell and I've really been loving this one. This one stays all day and the few times I've worn this, I've received lots and lots of compliments and you can't beat the price of this versus the Tom Ford. And here's the second fragrance that I picked up at the beginning of April and this is the Citrus Green Apple. This is inspired by Dolce and Cabana Light Blue. Who doesn't love that scent? That takes me back to high school. I used to wear that scent all the time in high school and college and nothing's changed. I still absolutely love the scent. So the top notes on this one are Green Apple, Lime and Cedrit. The middle notes are Bluebell, Jasmine and Rose and the base notes are Amber, Cedarwood and Musk. Now this one is a little bit more musky but it still has that fresh smell that you get from the Dolce and Cabana Light Blue. Just love it. It is sweet, it is citrusy. It's got that base note of musk. It's just the perfect fragrance for spring or summer. Makes me wanna wear it right now. It smells so delicious. I love that there's that little yumminess of the Green Apple. Such a great scent. This is another one that's a classic high-end fragrance for a more affordable price through dossier and another one that lasts all day on the skin. So I will go ahead and link dossier down below for you with a 10% discount and you can actually double dip your discount. So whatever sale is going on on the dossier website, you can stack that 10% discount onto that. So you can get 20, 30, 40% off of dossier fragrances. You already know my favorite dossier all the time. Starting with the Vitabread vitamin C serum. This is the Wrinkle serum. This is a fantastic product. I use this no more than a couple of days and notice it filled in a lot of the fine lines in Wrinkle that I have under my eyes, on my forehead. I notice results within a couple of days of this. This is a product that I use every single morning under my moisturizer and sunscreen. It is fantastic. I love skincare where I see immediate results and then long-lasting results. I've been using this for well over half the month of April and it quickly became a favorite. This is another serum that I love. This is from the brand Dermalect and this is their self-esteem beauty sleep serum. This is my nighttime serum. What I love about this besides how great it works is it smells so delicious. It smells like maple, like pancake syrup. It smells really, really good. It sinks into the skin so quickly and this is another one that within days I had visible results. I wake up in the morning and my skin looks amazing. It is plump and hydrated and it just looks glowy and fresh in the morning. I love this. You can see that I'm well over halfway done with this and I am buying this time and time again. This is my go-to night serum. It's incredible. I also have some makeup favorites, makeup products that I've been loving. Every single one of these is on my face today. Starting with the brand new product from NYX. This is their Wonder Stick. Now they came out with two different ones. One that's a highlighter and bronzer and this one is a blush and a contour. So this is a double-ended stick product. You have one end that has a deeper shade and one end that has a lighter shade. So how you use this product is the deeper shade is going to go right where you would contour kind of in your cheekbone. The lighter shade is used as a blush. You apply a stripe of both of them to the cheeks and blend it out and it gives you this beautifully contoured blush. Look to your cheeks. It's going to accentuate your cheekbones, add some contouring and then add this beautiful flush of color for blush. This product is great. Now I haven't ordered the bronzer and highlighter but now that I know that I love this one so much, I'm going to order the bronzer highlighter stick as well. I'll link actually both of them down below for you. This has been my favorite eyebrow pencil for the last month or so and this is again the one that I use today. This is the Juvia's Place eyebrow pencil. One end of it is your eyebrow pencil. The other end is a spoolie. This eyebrow pencil works really well. It is a fine enough tip that you can add those nice brush-like strokes to your brows. It fills in any sparse areas and it looks natural and it's really affordable because it's Juvia's Place. I've used a lot of brow products and this one for the price is the best that I've ever used. It's become a staple and a go-to for me. Another newer product that I've been loving comes from Ophir Cosmetics and this is their liquid highlighter. This is the highlight that I have on my cheeks today. I love this product. I love it. It comes in a pump top so I just pump a couple of small dots on my hand, blend it out with a beauty blender and it adds this really pretty natural glow. What's great about a liquid highlighter is it doesn't sit on the skin. It sinks into the skin. So you have that really pretty glow from within look. This is also a great product to mix in with your foundation if you want an all-over glow to the face. I love it. They came out with several shades. I grabbed the lightest shade only because I wanted to use it as highlighter and as a mix into my foundation. It's beautiful. I mean, beautiful. My lips today is the brand new lip oil from Lunar Beauty. I'm obsessed with these lip oils. I need more. I need more. He came out with three lip oils and I love every single one of them. They have scents like watermelon and strawberry but what's great about these lip oils is they don't feel greasy on the lips. It doesn't feel like you spread melted butter on your lips but it still gives you that beautiful, glimmering shine like melted butter but it's just a really great formula and what's even better besides the scent and the formula is the longevity. Lip oils generally come off rather quickly, not these Lunar Beauty ones. They will last on my lips for hours and hours. I'm obsessed with them. I purchased all three of the ones that were recently released.  Last but not least is the setting spray that I've been loving. This again is the setting spray that I used today. This is a drugstore brand. This is a drugstore setting spray from the brand Milani. This is their Make It Last but this one has SPF 30. So it has sunscreen built into the setting spray.  It does not make your face wet at all.  No need to fan or anything. I love it. It literally dries instantly and it has such a light mist that it's very pleasant to apply to the skin and I love it. It has a really fresh scent and I just love that it dries fast and has SPF 30. And as always, we're going to end out my beauty favorites with my favorite palette of the month and it's this little cutie right here. This is the number six palette from Fenty Beauty. She's beautiful. She is a cool toned, neutral dream. You guys know I love color. I love color out for eyeshadow but every once in a while, I love a good cool tone and I love a good neutral and this little Fenty Beauty palette really, really surprised me. I have used every shade in this palette. The matt blend beautifully. The shimmers are beautiful and sparkly. I really, really love this. I've worn this more times than I can count and that says a lot because I have well over 200 eyeshadow palettes. So if I'm reaching for this little guy right here, you know it's become a quick favorite. I think I wore this at least six times in the month of April. It's such an easy to use, neutral palette. I love every look I've ever created with it and because it's a smaller six pan palette, it makes it easy to decide what shades to put on your eyes. So highly recommend Fenty Beauty has a lot of these little palettes. They all have different numbers but this is the snap shadow in the number six and I love it. So those are all of my April favorites. Lots and lots of WW foods, beauty, skincare, all the things that I've been loving in the month of April. Don't forget that I'll have everything linked down below for you as well as nutrition coaching, links and discounts to my other favorite things and my Facebook group definitely coming over and join us there as well. We'd love to have you. Thank you so much for watching. Let me know down in the comments if any of my favorites are your favorites and I'll see you all next time. Bye.


We're delighted to have with us former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, who I'm sure is very well known to all of you. He is now the chairman of a think and do tank in Chicago, known as the Paulson Institute, which is working to advance global environmental protection and sustainable economic growth in both the United States and China and to improve relations between the two countries, better understanding. He was Secretary of the Treasury under President George W. Bush from July 2006 to January 2009, an inconsequential period in American financial history, and of course spent 32 years at Goldman Sachs, including his chairman and chief executive officer from 1999 until he entered the Treasury. He's also a lifelong conservationist and was chairman of the Nature Conservancy, among many other conservation related activities. So that's Secretary Paulson. And then with him on stage is David Wessel, who I think is also very well known to a Washington audience. David a few months ago joined the Brookings Institution as director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy. But as most people know for a few years before that, 30, namely, he worked at the Wall Street Journal where he covered economic and many other issues. And he won two Pulitzers along the way, which is not bad. He is a frequent participant in NPR's morning edition, so I'm sure you've heard him there if you hadn't read his Wall Street Journal columns. So with that, I will leave the two gentlemen to take a minute. Thank you, Matt. Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be here. Hank Paulson is just back from a trip to China, and I asked him how many times he'd been to China, and he paused for a moment and said more than 100 times, both at Goldman and at Treasury, and now in pursuing a third career, which is interestingly 100% non-profit. He has no investments in China, except I think maybe his heart a little bit. Mr. Paulson, I thought I would start with remembering that you presided over, you had the helm during a horrible financial crisis in the United States, and we're a country that, at least we thought, had a fairly sophisticated financial system with good people running it. It didn't turn out to be quite as good as we had been led to believe, but in some sense the Chinese are facing what is widely regarded as the potential for a financial crisis, perhaps with less expertise in handling them, although they do seem to have a few resources if they need them. So I wondered if you could talk a little bit about how big a risk you think there is in shadow banking, or credit boom, or housing, and how well prepared you think they are to manage it if it hits. Yeah. David, thanks, and thank you all, it's great to be here. Not surprisingly that was a question I got a number of times in China, and my view is that, of course, every economic system known to man, every economy from time to time are going to have financial crises, and the roots are almost always, probably always, in flawed government policies, and then they manifest themselves in the banking system. And of course when you have an economy like the Chinese that relies on, to a large extent, debt financing for infrastructure, for real estate, for fixed plant investment, the problem is inevitable. And they almost certainly are going to have bad debts, and this in many ways is similar to what happened there in 1998 and 2000. The part of the bad debts are related actually to our financial crisis because of their fiscal stimulus program and policy bank lending, part of it to shadow banking investments that are in that market often to the private sector, and a lot of it municipal funding. And so the way I look at it is that first of all, I don't think anyone doubts that the capacity or the commitment they have to prevent the failure of systemically important companies. And today, the problem is limited to municipalities, local debt, and to state-owned enterprises. The public don't have leverage, and the central government has got a huge capacity. So today I think the things that I tell the Chinese is they need, in a system with diffuse decision making, they need clear lines of authority, and they need to make some tough decisions about what institutions are systemically important and which aren't, and when there are losses, how those should be shared among market participants, and they need to make it clear where the government is on the hook and where the government isn't. I'm not making light of the current situation. I think it's manageable. I think of much more serious is the flawed government policies that have led to this, which need to be corrected. And here I would just point at two things. One is sort of that triangle between the banks, the government, and state-owned enterprises, and dealing with that. And then the other very significant problem is their system of municipal finance, which is overly reliant on real estate sales, municipal governments taking land from the farmers, selling them to developers, and they need a new system, and that's not sustainable. They need a new system of municipal finance. And it's easier said than done because right now it doesn't work, it won't work unless there's a new tax system and there's fiscal reform because what happens is mayors have huge obligations and they don't have access to sources of revenue, enough sources of revenue. So what they're doing is they're taking land and selling it and funding it in the shadow banking market from banks on a short-term basis. So it's going to take a while. Pretty big bumps on the way to a better system. Just like the state of Illinois, they have some problems. Well, I would say that the Chinese economy I wouldn't compare with the state of Illinois, but the state of Illinois, we have some very significant problems, but China does as their own problems and I think they, like any economy, are going to have bumps in the road. To step back and look at it even more broadly, there is a huge need in China to develop a new economic model and the current, the Xi administration is committed to do just that and really put their credibility on the line and laid out really a very broad program to do that, but it's a lot easier said than done, to take a $9 trillion economy and develop a new economic model and rebalance it and do all the things they're going to do. So I happen to think you can't do something like that without some significant bumps along the way. To what extent has the Xi reforms translated into change in incentives for local governments? We talked a little this morning about how for a long time if you wanted to be promoted you had to produce growth and it was all in service of the national GDP target. The rhetoric at the top is for balance growth and all the stuff, but have they changed the incentives for the local officials, do you think? I think it's going to take a while to do that. I think the incentives are critically important. The environment is an area where it sure looks like they've changed it, that they don't have the institutions they need to deal with environmental issues the way we do. They have a strong, you know, the Ministry of Environmental Protection with regulations that can be enforced. So the approach that the Xi administration is using is making the environmental protection clean air and clean water an important part of the way they evaluate officials. So it used to be when you would meet the party secretaries and mayors they would go through their litany of what they'd done with their GDP and job creation and now in addition to doing that they're all talking about the environment and if they believe that that's going to impact their career what they do and it's going to be a very important part of their performance evaluation I think that will make a big difference.  That isn't clear the extent to which that but that is clearly something that needs to be done and I think that I'm frankly encouraged because I don't believe it's rhetoric. The party needs to do this if it's going to keep its credibility. You've been working a lot on the environment China. Give us some example of something that convinces you that this is more than just press releases from the top. I've just given you to me the best example I can give. I would say that they've to step back even further. If five or ten years ago someone had told me these are all the things that China is going to do in terms of investing in clean technologies and shutting down dirty plants etc. I would have expected them to have made more progress but what's happened is despite some pretty extraordinary steps they've taken that it's all been blown away by this breakneck growth and I think there's a real understanding today that the quality of the growth is much more important than just ramping up GDP and the Chinese people are demanding it. When I'm there it is the big issue and remember I was there at the end of February also and when I was here at the end of February you could hardly see the sun and it was the you know the TP 2.5 rating it's in the dangerous zone when it's above 300 and I had days when it was above 600. Remember the leaders are right there in Beijing breathing the same air and so there's a huge need. You look what they're doing they're doing important things with resource taxes and tax experimenting with tax and carbon they're doing a lot of things and so there's no doubt they're serious about it. One of the things that you've mentioned to me and it came up this morning is in the G leadership period the role of the party seems to have changed some. Talk a little bit about what you've noticed about the role of the party and through this leader as compared to the last couple. Well I think the party has always been predominant in China. I think some Americans because when we talk about reform we're thinking that the Chinese maybe in the back of our minds some people are thinking they're trying to create a system like we have and so when they look at market based reforms these are reforms that are good for China and good for us and when you look at what they're doing in modernizing the government it's good for China and good for us but the party is predominant and Xi Jinping came from a very prominent and powerful family in the Chinese Communist Party and he sees a strong party as a part and parcel is critical to his being able to achieve successes in the reform areas he's pursuing and he sees the party as really the only strong institution and so he's in China so he's done things and doing things to increase the credibility of the party and a whole lot of things including a very very strong and anti-corruption campaign but a number of steps so he's making the party and I so as someone who's been going to Beijing for a long time I hear in the conversation with officials you hear the party mentioned much more frequently than in the past is that a substitute for government? is he trying to break the gridlock of government that slowed things down and how do you build a strong government if the party is being so much strength? well that is the $64,000 question because what happens is a big look at the reforms most people in the US and most of the press are focused on the economic reforms which are very broad in scope and extraordinary which is all about giving the market a decisive role and things are going to be very good for China and good for us but there's also a huge agenda in terms of modernizing government and the institutions of government because China doesn't have the institutions the governmental institutions that it takes to govern a country with an economy as big and as diverse as China so there's work on restructuring so part of it is a structural issue for instance to take the Ministry of Environmental Protection you know in certain areas it's going to take more centralization which is counterintuitive to many Americans who think they're already being too much authority and top-down authority but how do you regulate the environment if it's not done centrally and you have consistent rules at the local level that are enforced part of it has to do with the legal system and more due process and the rule of law and restructuring that restructuring the disciplinary process which Wong Xishong who was my counterpart in the SED now heads up but then there's sort of the catch-22 that you alluded to which is the party probably is the only organization in China that is strong enough to get these things done and because there's huge vested interests there's going to be a lot of resistance and she has really consolidated power to really an unprecedented level we stood in my experience and I think he's going to need that to get it done but maybe because the party is so strong that's one of the reasons why they don't have the institutions and have built the institutions they need You mentioned the anti-corruption campaign do you look at this as a crude way for Xi to reward his friends and punish his enemies to say since I'm sure there's plenty of people who are corrupt in China and you know that the leadership can always target you that might make you a little more loyal or is it less about hard power and more about kind of clean up the system to keep the people happy Well first of all just for background for those David that haven't been following it as closely that the led by Wang Xishang who runs the Central Disciplinary Committee there's been really a highly publicized program to go after not just the you know to go after the Tigers not just the flies and so some very senior people you know have been targeted including Zhou Yongkang who used to you know a former standing committee member who and so in terms of what they're trying to accomplish first of all there is no doubt in my mind when you look at the Chinese people and the issues that they care about right up there with the environment is corruption property rights, clean air, clean water, food security and corruption and so there's no doubt that this increases the credibility of the party with the people no doubt about that number one and number two to the extent that some of the people being targeted are senior you know and some of the state-owned pillars of the economy I think will lessen resistance to some of the reforms and but I also believe that they are very serious about curbing corruption for domestic and international credibility and I think they understand that just although arresting people for past transgressions is certainly going to strike fear in the heart of a lot of people and they're going to curb their behavior going forward that this is a systemic issue and it's one that's got to be changed and it's got to be changed through sort of long-term policies emphasizing values and integrity changing incentive systems that you talked about part of which will be paying underpaid government officials more for doing the jobs they need to do part of it will be having clear rules on anti-corruption and a legal system that is more even as it enforces the law and I think a big part of it is doing what they want to do in terms of having the market play a bigger role in the economy and government playing a smaller role because I think the current system where the government plays such a big role is again is one that spawns corruption it sounds like you're saying there are kind of twin objectives and twin benefits of anti-corruption one is it might make the system cleaner and more popular and work better but on the other hand if it happens to weaken resistance to reforms from the thing well that's not such a bad thing either you will go after it if you are an officer well to get first of all it strengthens the party by credibility and also there's no doubt that I think that some of the vested interests and state owned enterprises and other places I think the fact that some of those people have been targeted will help get reforms done now I think the American view was always that you can't really have successful market focus capitalism without also having political freedom the Chinese leadership clearly doesn't buy that argument but do you see attention there are they going to feel pressure to have more political freedom are these demonstrations a manifestation of a kind of restlessness among the Chinese people or is it the alternatively if they can deliver the goods and clean air and save food for your kids and a few less reeducation camps that they can get away with having strong political controls well to first of all I would say that right now Xi is very popular in China and most of the people virtually all the people I talked to are really focused on delivering the goods and these other things that are going to be very, very hard to deliver I mean when you talk about the sorts of things that he's taking on they're going to be very difficult my own view has been for some time and it continues to be that the system is evolving and that ultimately as you move to have a market driven economy that's as integrated as China is with the rest of the world the system needs to evolve to become more open and inclusive it really does and so I believe that the government won't achieve the success that they expect it to achieve unless they move in that direction and I think there'll be pressure to move in that direction this is a pragmatic leadership and one of the reasons why I've gone to China as much as I have over the years is when they're focused on their economic objectives and reforms and that they are pragmatic they're not locked into ideology they're looking for what will work and again I think the system will evolve and it will need to evolve When you worry about China when you think about what could go wrong what's on your worry list? Well to me the big picture is this the big picture is that this is a country that has accomplished an extraordinary amount over the last 30 years and they've done it with an economic model that has run out of steam in my judgment that just plain isn't sustainable and so you can get a bunch of economists we can all sit around a room and talk about they got to do this, that and the other thing and when you talk about what they need to do in terms of reforming the labor market removing immigration restrictions all of the various social reforms the government reforms the economic reforms in order to unleash the potential of the private sector to rein in the state-owned enterprises to reform the financial system at $9 trillion economy to change the model is a difficult thing to do and so to me the good news is the leaders understand it it's not like talking to US politicians sometimes guess what the problem doesn't exist for people when you talk with them they're very pragmatic they know the problem exists they talk about it so the question is are they going to be able to get the things done because you've got and here I'm going to make it very big and an important point probably the most important thing I think I'll say because when you look at the scope of the issue and the scale that they've taken on and the personal credibility that she has put on the line a very unprecedented for a general party secretary to be the one that heads up this central reform in the leading group on economic reform so they've taken it on but the question is it's so complex to do this and they've done a lot how are we going to know whether they're going to be successful or not and to me it all comes down to competition just as plain and simple as that I'm going to define competition because economic competition so the things I'm going to look at are first of all are they going to open up the key sectors to private sector competition we're talking about energy we're talking about finance I think they will but are they going to do that secondly are they going to reign in the state-owned enterprises and continue the reform of them which isn't an easy thing to do at the time when they're really underperforming and you take away their subsidies and their special advantages and their regulatory protections and put them on a level playing field and make them compete that's going to lead to unemployment in those areas but it will get back to what it will do in a minute and then thirdly which I think is really important is are they going to open up to foreign competition and I think that is critically important there are two groups of reformers in China the pseudo reformers many of whom are the domestic companies that are all for competition as long as you let the foreign capital in but let us run our own companies and so that's why I have been as focused as I have been on this bilateral investment treaty because just like Zhu Anji used WTO admission you know to drive economic reforms internally that I think this is what the current Xi government would like to do I mean to use the treaty to introduce more competition within China because that's what you'd have to do to get a sign because it benefits China tremendously in terms of increasing the efficiency I don't think the reforms will be as successful as they need to be without it and it's the only way you're going to build healthy strong companies in China look what happened in every industry every country where you protect an industry we protected our auto industry for years with an import quotas and look what we got and so it is I just think that's critically important so to me what I worry about is this is such a big agenda and there will be strong vested interests ideological resistance political resistance that it's going to take some doing to get it done and it's complex how do you sequence these reforms I see it be difficult if growth is slowing and they're worried about not creating enough jobs then you tell them we want you to take away the protections from these state-owned enterprises so they have to lay off workers I could see the dynamic there will be right now I mean I've been looking at what they've been saying about growth and I was very encouraged by two things that Lika Chung the Premier said recently when I was at Boao first of all you know he's well aware that growth is slowing down and I don't see them slipping back into their old patterns of a bunch of lending stimulus building a lot of infrastructure some of which isn't needed and so I think they recognize you need higher quality growth and then he announced this this really I looked at it as a massive pilot project or program between the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and the Shanghai Exchange which is going to lead to a lot of two-way investment flow into each market and I think it's something that if it works could be replicated with other markets around the world so they're serious about doing this but what I think we all have to worry about is how easy is it to get done One of the things I've noticed when I visited China not nearly as much as you if you talk to very wealthy people successful entrepreneurs or companies that serve these people I sense a great deal of insecurity among that they're afraid that they will be accused of corruption or they all seem to be I'm buying a house in Vancouver I'm making sure my kid goes to Harvard and gets a green card Am I wrong about this? When you talk to private sector people is there kind of insecurity about their future in China? I wouldn't lump everybody together there's really quite a vibrant private sector and when I talk to my friends at just ten cents or with Jack Ma of Alibaba and look what they're doing in internet banking and taking on the banks a lot of private sector people are encouraged because they really believe that this is a government that understands the future of the country is the private sector Xi Jinping wherever he was in every province there was a big emphasis on the private sector as opposed to state-owned enterprises and of course there are other people that have accumulated a lot of wealth and people that have really benefited from the vested interests that have got concern and I think anybody who understands China and I gotta believe most people that are there understand it better than we do recognize that these reforms aren't going to be easy What role does the People's Liberation Army play in the economic reforms? Are they an obstacle to this because they are of vested interest or not? Well I would say that as you look at the state-owned enterprises or government-owned enterprises you have a group of central government-owned companies and when I talk about state-owned enterprises that's really what I've been focusing on but there's basically 100,000 plus entities in China owned by different pieces owned by different entities and some of them no doubt owned by the PLA in addition to municipal governments and so on and those entities need to be reformed they are underperforming I frankly think that they will be and a lot of them will be broken up be sold, be taken public restructuring because you look at the pressure on municipal governments to pay down debt right now and so I think that's going to be working in the favor and because they own some of these enterprises so they can sell them Oh yeah, because I think one of the things that when municipal governments have been under pressure to fulfill their mandate their go-to move has either been to take real estate and sell it to developers or lean on a local company which they all are part of to build some infrastructure or do something for some of which is not commercial so I think there will definitely be a pressure Let me turn you a little bit to the U.S. What is it that you think the U.S. should do either business or government to maximize the chances of successful reform in China that benefits them but also benefits us and the rest of the world? See, I start off with the proposition that to achieve the important things we want to achieve globally in terms of the economic objectives we have and the environmental objectives that we want China to succeed with these reforms Now, the many people that don't agree with me and there are some people today that always thought that what was good for China economically are beginning to question it because their relationship is becoming more complex I really believe now more than ever we need to because of some of the tensions in the national security area and the foreign policy area it's really important to think in that relationship and so it's quite important that we have complementary policies and the two things I would cite are first, bilateral investment trading to step back even further we have a lot of shared interests we have some things where we've got differences and we need to figure out how to manage those differences we're going to be competing in certain areas and in other areas we need to figure out we can't let that preclude cooperation where it benefits both of us and having shared interests is not enough unless you turn them into complementary policies so I look at the bilateral investment trade and I look at it and say if China identifies those areas where there is not market access that is going to add to the transparency and the predictability of the investment process and then if they narrow those areas rather than carving out big parts of their economy that aren't subject to competition that's going to be really good for them in terms of helping them have a more efficient economy and speed up the reform process and build stronger companies I think the U.S. needs to negotiate hard but recognize that's a big step forward and take a reasonable approach on transition and I believe that a bilateral investment treaty will also very significantly increase U.S. investment in China because it's going to increase trust and understanding and I actually think cross investment on an international treaty basis will take it to a larger extent away or help insulate it from the political cycle or the ups and downs and the tensions between Beijing and Washington and so I think we should welcome Chinese investment to this country and I think it's very important and then of course in the environmental area I think this is one that most people understand I mean part of the reason why the Paulson Institute works so hard on sustainable economic policies in China and the U.S. and sustainable urbanization is one of our thrusts the next 700 million people you know it's hard to even get your mind around that going to the cities in China is going to drive global not only economic outcomes but environmental outcomes and as we can't it's very important that we have I happen to believe climate is sort of the overriding social and economic issue of our day that's what I believe and I don't think there's anything we can do in the U.S. by ourselves to solve this problem and having worked with a number of developing countries I think the Chinese leadership gets this to a greater extent than any other major developing country I can find and I think there's a huge opportunity as the two biggest emitters of carbon the two biggest users of energy for us to really work together and cooperate and there's a natural fit no one innovates like we do right look at our national labs look at our major universities look at Silicon Valley look at all the financial legal infrastructure we have around that no one can roll out and test new technologies quicker and has a faster growing energy market than the Chinese but what are we doing we're exporting coal to them we're slapping big quotas when they want to sell us solar panels cheap and so there's a lot of policies that are hard to explain unless you look at politics but there's I think a lot of room for cooperation I think we can turn to questions so we have about maybe ten minutes there are a lot of people here so tell us who you are and remember that a question ends with a question mark can we have a mic over here stand up because the mic isn't working so narrowing the gap narrowing the gap and then do you think that inability will benefit China in any way for them to be between potential future trade negotiations in the future or does this TPP agreement what kind of impact will this TPP agreement will have on China so you're referring to the Trans-Pacific Partnership that the US is trying to negotiate with a number of Asian countries including Japan and the question is are the Chinese threatened by this so I would say first of all I happen to believe that it's very important when dealing with China for us to be strong economically to fix our own economy to be strong diplomatically and militarily and it's particularly important to be strong economically, diplomatically and militarily in Asia number one number two I see the TPP is very important top priority because it's really focused on economic integration it's not just looking across the border it's looking behind the border and some of the other restraints moving some of the other restraints to competition and I think that if we get a high quality TPP I would be surprised if the Chinese don't want to become part of it and I think we should welcome the Chinese I think they would benefit and we would all benefit so that's my view and I think you're starting to hear them talk more openly about being part of it so that is something else that would drive reform and be quite helpful but do you think the Chinese attitude is that the US has to choose between China and Japan particularly militarily or do they accept that we can be allies and partners of both? I'll look more broadly then I'll come to Japan in a minute I think very broadly they absolutely accept a relationship should be based on mutual respect and mutual interest and that there will be differences and that those differences should be managed and not preclude cooperation but this US, Japan this Chinese, Japan tension and conflict is quite disturbing to me because I think that there are two forces that are in conflict with each other you see it in the Pacific one, the need for economic integration and economic growth which Japan needs which China needs all of Asia needs we all benefit from and what is in conflict is that and putting that in jeopardy are the political tensions and so to me that is disturbing it's just really, really important that we have great communication and the US government just keeps pushing we have to have it at the political level at the senior military level and write down to the boat captain so you don't have a conflict and so that's I think very important and there's a lot of history there there's a lot of sentiment and nationalistic sentiment in both countries and I wouldn't underestimate the significance of it when I talked to some of my most to some friends in China people that have gone to US schools people that have really admire our system in our country and I raised that issue they talk about the history and gee we are allies in World War II they are on the other side we don't get it but the fact is we have a defense treaty with Japan they're an important ally we on individual disputes we don't take sides we try to be neutral but this tension is something I worry about and it's no doubt it's a concern over there in the back thank you my name is Doug Paul from the Carnegie Endowment recently the Treasury issued an advisory to China not to let its declining currency values get back into play when there's a concern about unemployment in China and yet many independent economists say China's currency has been etching into being overvalued and really does need to make some adjustment who's right? well I look back and say that I look forward to the day when we don't have that debate and the only time we're going to have not have it is when they have a market determined currency right and they don't so it's pretty clear to me only when they have a market determined currency are they going to have really globally competitive capital markets are they going to have an economy that is where the market is playing a decisive role they have the right price signals are they going to be able to move up the value added chain do all the things they want to do to rebalance their economy and I'm not the only one that thinks that there are plenty of Chinese leaders including Jo Xiaotran so I always look at it and I say well you can do two things right you can keep intervening in the currency market and or you can speed up moving to a the process of moving to a market determined currency and if you keep intervening what's going to happen you're going to keep accumulating foreign exchange reserves you're going to you're going to be funding these structural deficits in the US and Japan and you're not going to be rebalancing your economy or you can move ahead and do things that you need to do for your economy so I clearly think that they need to take action this is always a hot budget hot button issue in Washington DC and one of the reasons I'm you know it's when I'm outside of Washington DC I don't talk as much about that because it's simple it's easy to understand and I don't think it is I'm not downplaying the importance of currency and but I think even more important are the structural issues that lead to the imbalances the structural issues that cause them to over-save and the issues that we can't blame the Chinese for the fact that we borrow too much as a government and as a people and we have policies that have sent that David Dollar nodding he must be doing well Bob Keatley coming thank you you mentioned political reform but evolution is needed but this comes at a time when China is cracking down on the flow of information internet, media people who even agitate in favor of government policy can find themselves in jail is this undermining the need for diversity transparency working against the economic policy well as you as you know I'm an American and I love our political system and I've said pretty clearly I think that I'd like to see and I think it's important that they move towards something that's more open and more inclusive and what you've seen is you've seen the Xi administration at the same time they've put out a whole set of reforms which are badly needed they've also said we're going to deal with a number of hot button issues the one child policy labor reeducation camps and then focus on the major issues of the food, water, air corruption etc and they've done that at the same time that they've cracked down on the press and Weibo and some of the other things and so they've you know I look at it and I say the very strong view is that they're dealing with issues that the people care the most about today but again I I don't think that's a winning formula and I think that they will over time that they won't be as successful as they need to be unless they have a more open inclusive government as a woman here and then the gentleman in the back by the camera thank you Liya from VOA as China embarks on these economic reforms I'm just wondering if Secretary Paulson can talk about the sequencing of these reforms especially in the financial reform area thank you the sequencing is very very important of the reforms because for instance if you normalize the labor market with and and let everyone migrate to the big cities and take their benefits with them you would have them just flooding Beijing can't accommodate many more people than Shanghai can so how they do that and what they're going to do is they're going to normalize the market for second and third tier cities first the financial market reform mayors are going to need budget responsibility and have to be held accountable and have sources of revenue that they can call on but right now mayors don't have budget responsibility and they don't have financial statements that are transparent financial statements which are required to have a municipal market so if you need a municipal finance market they've got a ways to go before they can get there because they can have fiscal reform, tax reform give mayors the tools they need to manage a budget so these are going to be very that's why she has given himself he gave himself seven years from the time they announced these policies which was you know some time ago to get them done because it's going to take a while so what I look at are what are the things that can be done soon and are they doing them okay are they doing the things that they need to do right away and I focus a lot on the financial markets and the reason I do is these are things that have been studied debated in China they know what the issues are and so these reforms are very important and here I start with the idea of letting foreign financial institutions come in and compete because you're going to need world-class institutions and I've never ever seen a situation where I believe joint venture institutional investors or banks or investment banks work it's hard enough to run one where you have control so you're never going to get there with joint venture so opening up reforming the markets so that capital is allocated to households and the private sector rather than state-owned enterprises moving eliminating the caps on interest rates that savers receive there's a whole list of things in terms of developing a corporate bond market so those things are important the other things I'm going to look at is I said competition are they moving quickly to do the tough things with the state-owned enterprises it's not going to get easier as time goes on and so now I've been quite encouraged by not only what they've said about the markets playing a decisive role but some of the steps they've taken to roll back the red tape and the regulatory barriers they keep their private sector from getting in and competing in certain industries so they've done a lot in terms of laying out a very ambitious program they've moved very quickly in certain areas like the anti-corruption I think on the environment we'll have to wait and see and I think that's going to take some time let me ask you one final question you're talking to an American worker and yes I understand that the air I breathe has something to do with the pollution that comes across the globe from China but if I'm an American worker my wages haven't gone up my company has a lot of investments in China and they tell me it's good for me but I'm not so sure about that what do you say to American workers whose wages are stagnant who see who it's great if Goldman and Citi can do business in China what's in it for me what do you say to them make them feel they have a mistake I would say first of all to the American worker the American worker is struggling in manufacturing okay we have 8 or 9 times the output we had in 1950 with the same number of workers that we had then and when I go through plants in China right now I see very similar things to what I see the best companies in China in the US which is I go through manufacturing plants I don't see a lot of workers I see robotics and technology so I see technology this is an aside we need technological advances it's driving productivity but in almost every industry I look at architecture whether it's engineering whether it's almost any business technology and manufacturing is destroying jobs so we as the US need I think to really focus on this and focus on having the proper training programs etc but what I say to people in the US I think first and most importantly we need to fix our own economy you know that is going to be the key to our relations with China and everything else everything starts with our own economic strength and the things we need to do to become competitive and we could tick all these things off and there's a good number of them and then the other thing I would say to a US worker we should be fighting to open up a continued open up opportunities for US products in China and right now it's very interesting you talk with farmers and ranchers it's an easy sell because of course they look at what's happening and how fast that consumption engine is growing and the need to feed the Chinese people it's no longer you mentioned Wall Street I think it used to be Wall Street and a lot of the big global companies but I think right now the constituents you know clean tech companies and technology and at the state and city level there's a lot of people that are looking for Chinese investment to come in I was with a company in Fuzhou you know on last Friday which really wasn't that long ago and is a leading manufacturer of auto glass the Fuyou group they just bought a huge plant in China excuse me in Ohio and they're going to look at hiring a thousand people so I think that's what you the case we need to make now I think it's a hard case and I sure don't want to be the one that's trying to say this directly to someone who's lost his job on a plant but I don't think there's a lot of jobs that are products that are importing from China by and large products that we didn't import from China would be importing elsewhere exports to China are growing that's the fastest growing area but it's important and that's why we have to fight so hard about these markets and why I'm talking about competition with that please join me in thanking Hank Foster


We are a bit behind schedule, but now we come to our last lightning talk for today. It's Oma Akram And he will talk about desk on the secure cross-platform IPC on the network Please welcome Oma Akram So I'll quickly quickly start and make it quick and make sure that we end on time My name is Oma Akram. I come from Pakistan and Well, I come from Pakistan and I have been part of the Core developer team at crossbar IO. It's a German company that that kind of Sponsors the development of autobahn web socket and vamp libraries. We also developed the crossbar vamp router Recently we are actually working on developing a data market that is distributed so that no single entity controls the data So we are working with different companies As part of that project which obviously should show something in in the next few months I've been part of the Ubuntu community for more than 10 years and Maybe the next month would actually be a the 10th year where I become where when I became the Ubuntu community member officially and Ubuntu kind of sponsored my trip here as well and And finally I was a Q engineer at canonical before the famous layoff that happened So I'll quickly talk about the vamp protocol itself Wamp was initially defined as a sub protocol for web sockets The proposition was that because web socket itself was end-to-end and then you have a you have a server and you have a client So something that was missing was if someone wanted to do remote procedure calls Or if someone wanted to route that traffic to other computers, they would have to develop those semantics themselves What the vamp protocol does is it introduces remote procedure calls and publish subscribe on top of web sockets And it kind of allows You to be able to write responsive websites with decoupled services So with feedback from implementers we actually changed the protocol Like in such a way that now any bidirectional reliable transport could be used So it's not really tied to web socket now Any other transport could be used maybe we will be doing Transport based on top of quick that someone was talking today as well So and all obviously zero confets of technology that's That's used for service discovery and name resolution on the local network And seems like someone disabled multicast on this Wi-Fi network So I had to create a hotspot on my own device to be able to do stuff I am assuming that's due to Making sure that the traffic doesn't go crazy and the routers are able to sustain that So I The main thing is this this is the project that I wanted to talk about this is called desk on It's your connection to your It's your computer's connection to different things Your computer could be a Raspberry Pi. It's could be your desktop itself In in some cases It could be your mobile phone which is right now for example my mobile phone is connected to my computer and it's actually controlling These slides. I'm obviously not pressing keyboard buttons there But I'm doing these RPC calls that are like these procedures are exposed by my computer. I'm just pushing them from here This is not something like a groundbreaking or this software is not groundbreaking obviously many people have done that in the past as well But I just hacked this around last night. So I could do something for this how it started well as most of the open source projects start it started as something that I was Trying to scratch my itch like I had some use cases at my home I want you to control the GPIO pins running on an Ubuntu core device on my home I have this home automation project which kind of Balances load on in my home using solar power for example in in the time of 10 a.m. To 4 p.m. I want to be able to run as much as load on that as possible and so I Wrote this thing to be able to control these GPIO pins from a mobile phone or my computer for that sense and Obviously at a later stage. I wanted I worked in a co-working space and one of the a problem that came up for me was In some cases you forget to dock your desktop screen and you move away And you have this constant fear that someone might poke into your computer So what I implemented was I wrote I exposed an interface from a computer and hooked it to that damon and Ultimately it was controlled by my mobile phone So whenever I stepped away from my desktop, I could actually check my phone and That if I forgot to lock it and I could actually lock the desktop screen Obviously this was working on most Linux distributions. I tested the Kubuntu Ubuntu and a few others well like DM Was working GDM and a few other display managers were working quite fine and Then this thing So I think most mostly we know that if you watch Netflix on your mobile phone when you go to full screen It automatically raises the brightness of the device. This is something that was missing for desktops So I wrote a Chrome extension to be able to do that a Chrome extension would send a request to the damon running on my desktop It would raise the brightness Well while talking well not talking direct. Well, it would actually write those Well used to the a backlight driver on my Linux base system So these were some of the use cases that Called me to write that thing initially it was all coupled together But with time given the use cases I kind of broke it down into different components so that it could be reused by different People trying to implement different use cases or any scenarios that may come up from them So at the core of this technology is a router. It's called crossbar right now. I'm using that router You could implement something For discovery, obviously I use this python library python zero cons for discovery so whenever this server starts on the local network, it's discoverable by other devices and You could hook in different clients one client obviously in this case is my mobile phone the other Could be a Raspberry Pi or it could also be my desktop Well, there is a client running on my desktop as well the CLI used to do the pairing You run a command on your desktop to Generate a key code that then you put in your mobile phone, which actually allows you to pair these devices for security reasons And obviously it's cross platform the technology that's being used here Pretty much runs on all platforms It works on windows on Linux on Mac The core thing the thing that's doing all the routing and all the remote procedure calls and the security layer That is cross-platform and then the multicast DNS, which I already said isn't working on this environment But obviously It's pretty mature enough that apple itself uses it in most of its devices and many Many amazon tablets are also using that Well in on linux we have awahe, but i'm not sure if we are using it that much apart from the printing stack, but That is how it is And okay, so I came up with this little piece of code that I wrote last night For the most part. This is what's exposing the functionality on my desktop. This is talking to you input To send key events. So these are four key events that I Assigned to different procedure rpcs So which i'm calling from here right now obviously There is one for stopping and starting and then there is next and previous. This is being controlled This is for the most part sending key events the the right arrow key the left arrow key Well, actually and the f5 and another key. I don't know which one is that. I don't remember it right now That's page down page up escape and Uh a five key. Okay, so this is a simplest code that I that is running on my computer, which is exposing this functionality And here is the overall picture of this thing I want you to do like this architect of this thing the damon itself which is running Uh, which is the router is running on my desktop I've called it desk on b inspired by lex d and system d the naming obviously Um Then there is an android client. There is a chrome extension which is called bright flicks Which tries To like raise which obviously monitors netflix.com and whenever it goes full screen It sends a signal to the damon which forwards that signal to The other component that's running on my desktop and that raises the screen brightness And for my home use case I already told about the picon that is also another project. That's sub project of this umbrella project picon is your Raspberry Pi's connection to things and Right now that's component is only Being used to control the gpi opins on that thing and which is producing quite a lot of saving for me as as it comes to Using that solar system in my home and so this is Snaps obviously since I mostly used Linux based systems in my computer. So Much of this is being shipped as snaps And they are the first they are first class citizens here. Obviously they They simplify application delivery story very much and due to the fact that snaps are You can use snapcraft to build different packages remotely on on canonical provided servers You get free rwgf builds that That already essential for me to be able to run those my software and on the Raspberry Pi because Trying to build something on the Raspberry Pi is like is a resource killer and it also takes quite a few Hours in some cases to do that. So This service obviously kind of helps me do that and obviously they are secured because You input in itself is very dangerous to expose to anyone Right now i've been talking to the ubuntu guys to be able to allow that they haven't allowed There isn't an interface for you input to be accessed in a confined snap because you are talking directly to slash def slash you input which which is very a let's say open for key in key event And we cannot afford that because a bad actor could do loss of different things that Most of the people wouldn't really want things to be And what's next? The project obviously is hosted on github. I've been doing active development of this thing for the last few months Well, I was quite busy for the Last two three months. So the development pace isn't that fast as it used to be a while back ago, but Now that I do Plan to do most of the changes that I have planned in the next couple of months so that it's shippable so that many People in the community could also contribute to this project. So I invite anyone If there is interest to just Clone the projects fork them report any bugs if you are able to run them on your systems And I'll happily try to fix those and Any questions or anything that's I try to finish it And you could contact me Thanks, Oma for your talk and we still have two and a half minutes So if there is someone who wants to ask a quick question Just um Raise your hand and I will bring the phone microphone to you Nobody Okay, then thanks again Oh There is The router where where does the router run on on my pc? Yes on your pc because that's where These apis get exposed So your route as soon as the router runs on your pc It sends its name on the local network using multicast dns so that other computers on the network are able to discover that So that enables easy access. Okay. It's for the local network. Yes It's totally around the local network in future There will be support for remote access as well Like the router running when your computer will be able to connect to a remote router provided by me Maybe or you would also be able to host that and then you could do all these calls over the internet as well There the technology is there. It's just a matter of doing it So another one Yeah, thanks again