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“We have trillions, billions, probably hundreds of billions of dollars, American dollars that are flowing into Chinese technology and military companies that are building things like aircraft carriers, artillery shells, fighter jets, things that are designed to…”

“Eventually it was discovered that these vials contained Ebola HIV, tuberculosis. There was a freezer labeled Ebola. It was like these silver Ziplocs inside and the CDC wouldn't test it, which is crazy.”

“You've had basic, you know, So-called scientific journals, peer-reviewed scientific journals like Lancet completely beclown themselves during the pandemic and continue to beclown themselves in large part by covering up for the origins of COVID and thereby witt…”

“To allow a company, ah, that is owned by ByteDance, which is beholden to the Chinese Communist Party, to be the dominant news platform for the next generation of Americans, I think borders on, on national suicide.”

“We will go to war with China if China makes a move against Taiwan, not because one of our ships accidentally bumps into theirs.”

“In some ways, the more grotesque display was what we saw at the business, the US-China Business Council meeting afterwards, where you had, you know, American CEOs giving Xi Jinping a standing ovation to include defense contractors, by the way. Raytheon, Boeing…”

“And I think it's dangerous, therefore, for president Biden to suggest as he did in Vietnam and as he just did in San Francisco, that because China has economic problems, she is less likely to invade Taiwan.”

“Well, I do strongly believe that we have to stop electing boomers as president, so I would at least satisfy that criteria, but I doubt I will be winning Iowa or New Hampshire, or even Wisconsin anytime soon.”

“The Army can't do its one J-ROC, its one joint function, which is defense for our expeditionary bases against missiles and drones like this. We're on the wrong side of the cost curve.”

“If we don't get the hard power side of the equation right, we may stumble into war on someone else's terms, and it's going to be horrific. It will look the current, it will make the current crises in the Middle East and Ukraine look like child's play in compar…”

“If Taiwan falls, it will make our ability to fulfill our treaty commitments with Japan and the Philippines, Impossible.”

“If you are invested in ByteDance, I would assume you want TikTok to go public in America. Ah, that's not gonna happen under the current ownership structure.”

“If social justice or ESG is a big deal for you and your employees, I just would ask you to recognize that there's no worse ESG actor, and no greater offender of social justice issues than the Chinese Communist Party. They suck on the E, the S, and they really …”

“It is ultimately, however, to Jake's point, gonna take DoD actually making big bets on a few companies that are non-primes, because we just keep admiring the valley of death problem”

“Like right now Huawei is off the mat. It's coming back with SMIC semiconductors, in part because they still have access to U.S. Technology, right?”

“No amount of apex summits, no amount of relentless diplomacy are going to affect Xi Jinping's calculus. The only thing that will affect his calculus is for us to surge hard power to the Pacific west of the international dateline.”

“Notably the teachers' unions who quite, I mean, are effectively bribing politicians, right? And these are public employee unions that are playing a massive and distorting role in our politics.”

“The CCP via an innocuous sounding nonprofit that was basically a United Front Work Department entity set up on a police station in the heart of Manhattan that was being used to surveil, harass, and in some cases physically assault people on American soil.”

“You right now, Joe, could go online and buy, you could buy, you could definitely buy AIDS, you could buy MERS, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome. There's no tripwires in place for the purchase of this stuff,”

“We've done an investigation of BlackRock MSCI, and we've only scratched the surface. We've investigated some other some venture capital organizations, and we are, we're, Capital continues to flow even to companies that are on various federal government blackli…”

“I think it's incredibly legal and consistent with free speech to prevent a hostile foreign adversary from controlling what is increasingly a media and news platform.”

“As long as it comes with algorithmic control, By an American company, I would be fine with a forced sale, and that way American investors who own a bunch of ByteDance don't totally lose a ton of money”

“Where we've already made a decision that we're going to try to wean ourself off semiconductor dependency on Taiwan, I guess in this case, I'm skeptical it's going to work”

“Any Taiwan war in which we want to have a fighting chance would necessarily take a while. It would be a protracted conflict. The only quick war would be a, you know, a short war would be a quick Chinese victory.”

“I listened to Secretary Mattis say the exact same thing, and then I read Chris's book about how we're nowhere near to solving that issue, and so that's where it's the worst of times.”

“The twenty-twenties I sort of view as the decade of maximum danger, and many of the solutions we're thinking about right now are not gonna bear fruit until the twenty-thirties.”

“Nuclear submarines you know, built and operated by the Aussies with our help are not gonna be patrolling the Pacific until, the late 20 thirties at best.”

“DOD is still largely using the same energetic material developed in the 19 forties. And a third of that material is produced overseas with supply chains reliant on China, of course.”

“There's no way we can just let the CCP come to control TSMC's production capacity or take it offline or destroy it. It would hand them the ability to economically blackmail the entire world, dictating who gets to participate in the modern economy and who doesn…”

“It turns out that the Chinese hypersonic program has benefited from American semiconductor technology”

“We're greenlighting unlimited investment in the worst of bad actors, including Huawei, DJI. You should have seen the lobbying effort against my DJI drone ban. I mean, it was just crazy. We're investing in Chinese defense con contractors.”

“And I do think the absence of a trade agenda is a huge grand strategic gap for both parties right now, if that makes sense.”

“If, There was even a blockade scenario that played out. It would be profoundly disruptive to the global economy. I mean, you're talking trillions of dollars lost in even the low end modeling for something like this.”

“I actually think As crude as it is, or less elegant and precise of an instrument as it is, a sector specific approach makes more sense.”

“The way forward is to construct a bill that I think we're very close to getting an agreement on, that is narrowly focused on this issue, that avoids the Restrict Act pitfalls by just basically telling commerce, go figure it out, and that is squarely focused on…”

“When it comes to critical minerals, rare earths, like if we just fix our Byzantine bureaucratic regulatory environment, like we could have a renaissance in this country, but we've effectively made it illegal to mine and process here, and thus we're dependent o…”

“The Marine Corps is the most effective propaganda organization in human history.”

“The demographic challenge is one that will become most acute In the early 20 thirties, they're going to run into a huge demographic buzzsaw really more retirees than any societies had to deal with in human history.”

“The U.S. Has expended thousands of missile and targeting systems. We're talking, I think the latest counts were over 88,500 javelins, ah, you know, 700 plus switchblades, you know, over 1500 stingers”

“The same thing that makes Taiwan difficult to invade makes it very difficult to resupply. There's no Poland next door that we can resupply through.”

“The reason I actually asked speaker McCarthy to change the name of the committee to say Chinese communist party and not China or PRC was to point out the distinction between the regime, the party, this is a party state, right?”