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Will we recover, unbridle ourselves of debt, innovate, pay for our national security? Or, is China fated to become number one, leaving us to live in a Chinese world?

There are, indeed, death panels, but they come from Republican administrations in states such as Arizona and Indiana.

The controversy over aspects of the House health care legislation that have been inappropriately equated with "death panels" has obscured the real problems with these provisions.

The new health care proposals do not include "death panels," but there are real problems with the end-of-life provisions in the current health care bill.

Export-related jobs are a huge and important driver of the U.S. economy, and the record of the Ex-Im Bank is clear: Using private funds and with minimal exposure to taxpayers, it has been a major driver of U.S. exports and a driver of jobs and corporate profits in the United States.

So men and women who faced death at Fallujah or Kandahar or Desert Storm are now to face death panels at home? That’s the upshot of the administration’s plans for military health care.

Is an escalating Sino-Indian rivalry in the Indian Ocean inevitable? What role will other regional actors play? Two panels of distinguished speakers will address these and other questions.