on behalf of the chinese communist party.ot just politics, it's also about the money trail if you follow the money trail will find it leads through corporate america and wall street directly to the chinese communist party.in essence what the party does is essentially curry favor in our political system to these connections. on the issue of decoupling, one of the policy suggestions being raised his need to decouple our economy from china. that's part of the problem we are so integrated right now, the figures you mentioned in trillions of dollars in investment in china the united states can just walk away from china right now but they need to do it in a way that's responsible and careful and protects american interests. my view is that president trump is a very transactional figure, he is not a career politician, he works through things that happen and doesn't want to foreclose his way of doing a deal with someone. all the best things that have happened as i mentioned earlier related to legislation and despite the hyper partisa

this conference on the most important subject which is the people's republican of china and the communist party of china to look at the problems there. and i'd like to first introduce our panelists and including myself. dr. michael pillsbury is one of the for most china expert the world, current lay senior fellow and director of the chinese strategy at the hudson institution. hudson institute. a distinguished defense and policy adviser, former high ranking government official and author of numerous books and reports on china. i know dish can tell you definitively that mike has really changed the u.s. military's thinking back a number of years ago he was sent to china to collect chinese military writeings and was the first american official who reveal what the chinese were telling themselves behind the scenes was quite different than what they were saying in public but how they wanted to be friend with the world, and it really had a tremendous impact on understanding the military's view of the people's republic of china. his book is a landmark book, most recent book is the hundred year marathon:

, the communist party gives a free society to chinese people from where?and the cultural revolution, so should the communist party be given credit for their lesser control, electing the money flow into it? i'm not asking the world to take a tougher step, i'm asking the world to be more honest, that's it. people will form their own judgements about your comparisons of the government of china with hitler, and fascists. they will make their own judgements on that but i wonder if you are running a risk here. you sit in taiwan, there are many older and younger, particularly dissidents who have moved to taiwan. we have seen massive chinese military exercises in the taiwan strait and we know the chinese government's position, to quote xijinping, is ultimately unification of the chinese mainland and taiwan is inevitable. is there not a very real prospect in the medium to long—term that china may well move against taiwan because increasingly it will see taiwan as a nest of opponents of the communist party? absolutely. the danger is always there. if you consider chi

as peter navarro said, they're feeding data directly to the chinese communist party.ld be the facial recognition pattern, could be information about the residence, the phone numbers, friends, those are the issues president trump has made clear we're going to take care of. these are true national security issues. they're privacy issues for the american people. for a long time the united states said well, goodness, if we're having fun with it or if a company can make money off of it we're going to permit that to happen. president trump has said enough. we're going to fix it. and so he will take action in the coming days with respect to a broad array of national security risks that are presented by software connected to the chinese communist party. maria: i mean, even if microsoft were to acquire the u.s. assets of tiktok, can you really believe that the china surveillance is gone from u.s. operations of tiktok? >> maria, i promise you the president when he makes his decision will make sure that everything we have done drives us as close to zero risk for the american peo

was modest steps taken but that was the moment as the soviet union was crumbling the chinese communist party the true face and it is still a communist country maybe president xi doesn't stand on - - stay up at night but it has all the hallmarks of a communistalry country. one party governance that is authoritarian it denies the free flow of capital and goods and is a state threat to the economy and it brutally oppresses christians and other minorities and now violates international commitments on a weekly basis whether cracking down on hong kg kong for invadg india and killing troops we largely overlook all that in the 19 nineties. we should have known better hide your strength and by your time they were hiding their strength as it accumulated and biding their time. at best a flawed experiment more likely a terrible mistake to give them the most favored nation status. so that meant american companies would not invest billions of dollars in supply chains in china if the next congress or president might say we won't continue that but once we made it permanent than the american companies rushed

the true character of the chinese communist party, chinese regime, is like they are greedy.cated or smart but they are extremely greedy and they only understand the one way to deal with them is to submit to them. the world has somehow felt that engagement can change china and the policy the world has had in the policy the world has had in the last 30 years have changed the last 30 years have changed the world, not china, so it's time to learn. the danger it seems to me, that you speak about the evils of the chinese communist party and encourage the international community to get real and impose tougher sanctions on china. the danger you face is that people inside your own home country of china, somebody betraying the nation, nationalism is a potent force inside china and all of the words that you give to me run counter to much of the popular nationalist sentiment inside the country. it's a completely blocked, controlled environment. and in that environment, people can think with few options and that can change rapidly when it's liberated. when the flow of information is libe

but there was a dramatic turn of events on august the says the 1st 1900 the communist party responded to the workers' demands and gave up its monopoly on political power. rather well in. order. more. mob. solidarity the 1st independent trade union in communist europe was now illegal a development that was widely covered in the foreign press the strikers knew that with the world looking on the party would have to keep its word. probably new no. new mug in a long. time when say used a huge pen with the likeness of the pope on it to sign the treaty a symbol of a utopia that would now the come reality the workers in the dance could demand did the impossible and they got it. meant. solidarity had one official record. nation. its leaders traded their work clothes for business. they appeared alongside intellectuals like today ocean as of yet ski and bernice. without them the triumph would not have been possible. pearson ishant said in the months after august the atmosphere was one of host consortia commitment. moments ago when solidarity our 1st free and independent trade union was officiall

the communist party gave a freer society from where? they're party gave a freer society from where?ety from where? they're more brutal cultural revolution. so should they be given credit for letting the world's money flow into it? i'm not asking the world to take a tougher stance, i'm asking the world to be more honest. that's it. people will form their own judgements about your comparisons of the government in china with hitler. hitler, yes. and fascists. they will make their ownjudgements on that. fascists. they will make their own judgements on that. but i'm just wondering if you're running a risk here. you are sitting in taiwan, there are many older and younger, particularly from hong kong, dissidents, critics of the chinese regime, who have moved to taiwan. we have seen massive chinese military exercises in the taiwan straits of late and we know the chinese government's position, to quote president xijinping, is ultimately unification of the chinese mainland and thai wine is "inevitable", do not see there is a prospect in the medium to long—term that china may well move against

that's not because of communist party.y from their own even more brutal ruling in the cultural revolution. should the communist party be given credit for their lesser control? and letting the world's money flow into it? i'm not asking the world to take a tougher step, i'm asking the world to be more honest, that's it. people will form their own judgements about your comparisons of the government in china with hitler and fascist. they will make their own judgement and fascist. they will make their ownjudgement on and fascist. they will make their own judgement on that, but i just their own judgement on that, but ijust wonder their own judgement on that, but i just wonder whether you're running a risk here. use sit in taiwan. there are many older and younger, particularly from hong kong, dissidents, credit from the chinese regime who have moved to taiwan. we seen massive chinese military exercises in the taiwan straits lately, and we know the chinese government's position to quote the president is that ultimately, unificatio

the several bold actions taken by the administration in recent days to turn up the heat on the communist partyn beijing. plus, gridlock on capitol hill this morning over the next federal aid package, still unable to agree on a number during the a emergency meeting yesterday. coming up, one of the leading gop voices in the negotiations, senator ron johnson is here with an update as he makes headway into his probe into hunter biden and administration officials 6789 on the heel of attorney barr's house testimony where he told congress he won't wait until november to reveal john durham's findings. doug collins will tell you why he expects criminal indictments coming out of john durham's criminal investigation. also here we are talking to new jersey lawmaker who made headlines when he switched parties, republican congressman jeff van drew, with his assessment of nancy pelosi and his former democrat colleagues, all that and a lot more as we look ahead on sunday morning futures. ♪ maria: first up this morning, the china challenge as beijing's communist party pushes to expand the influence over the fr

so 1st of all this is a big problem with understanding china the chinese communist party controls the police the borders the banks the military they control all the legitimate power within the society and access to capital they use that to motivate people to do things that they want them to do either through fear or understood by everyone 8000000 counties nationals visiting. a 2800000 they have a law that says every citizen every company has to collect intelligence on behalf of the nation i understand the argument what is your what is your claim solution to monitor 2800000 people who visited the u.s. last year 350000 chinese university students in the u.s. have them followed around i don't get it now i would argue that they can't be here unless we have a different chinese communist party that doesn't have a law you want to buy me in a china from the u.s. i want to travel about you want to travel about on china to much the muslim out just to get some clarity it's a quite stop proposal to say you want to the monitor them about you know what i said what i said is we need a strict vetting

there are a couple of ways to make the chinese communist party pay directly.re is a host of things we can do to make them pay indirectly, things we probably should have done a long time ago. but this virus has really opened the eyes of so many americans who need to do those things. for instance, over the last 30 years, especially the last 20 years, as congress gave china permanent most favored nation status, and china into the world trade organization, we have lost millions of manufacturing jobs. some of those jobs are in critical industries. not children's toys or lawn furniture, things we have learned, medical equipment. pharmaceuticals, high-tech, telecom. we have to get the manufacturing out of china for those critical goods. i think most americans were shocked when they learned earlier this year how dependent we are on china for lifesaving items. so i've introduced legislation that would provide the incentives necessary to get manufacturing jobs back in the u.s. accelerated tax subsidies, direct support through states, things like the semiconductor indust

the chinese communist party is not a force for good . in this last 140,000 lives and family members related to them, that's who they can blame. we can look to the chinese communist party for withholding information. blaming an ongoing, very feeble attempt . but they blamed our u.s. military for this coronavirus. that was like a lead balloon. it completely lost but the chinese communist party that is our enemy here. >> think you guys very much. i have been looking behind my shoulder here and some of you, i little inside joke, the most dangerous pleasant easy is anywhere between the presence of freedom and andy and the camera. [laughter]. he's itching to get up here . thank you for cleaning your microphones and thank you for serving our country. [applause]. ♪ we are in for a treat. we have for the congressman coming up representing in parts of our great country. at this point, i just want to say a special thanks again to president falwell and charlie clark. furlough they have done, their vision and putting this event together. streaming ac

but there was a dramatic turn of events on august the says the 1st 1900 the communist party responded to the workers' demands and gave up its monopoly on political power. more guns other william. or. more. mob. solidarity the 1st independent trade union in communist iraq was now illegal a development that was widely covered in the foreign press the strikers knew that with the world looking on the party would have to keep its word. that probably not much. new. new mum in a long. time when say used a huge pen with the likeness of the pope on it to sign the treaty a symbol of a utopia that would now become reality the workers in the dance could demand did the impossible and they got it. solidarity had one official record. nation. and its leaders traded their work clothes for business. they appeared alongside intellectuals like today ocean as of yet skilling and bernice. without them the triumph would not have been possible. pearson ishant in the months after august that was the atmosphere was one of hope and so should commitment. moments ago when solidarity our 1st free and independent t

but very much opposed to the communist party system in china.with that let's begin with our first panelist doctor michael pillsbury. >> thank you bill. i thought i would begin by revealing a new publication it's going to come out and about two weeks from the hudson institute. you will be able to get it online. it's called a guide to the trump administration china policy statements. and it has a link to every one of about 200 statements, interviews or tweets by president trump on the top members of his team. the reason i put this together as i believe there has been a lot of misunderstanding. and the left is also attacked president trump's chinese policy in many ways to distort what he has done what his team is said and done over the last three and half years. as we begin the next 100 days of the election campaign i think we are going to hear more of this. more attacks on the president either that he has been too soft on china, the biting team is already run several commercials where they imply that president trump then ice pe biden comes on and

it's with the communist party. there's a statement from the administration here dated may 26th, 2020. it says we do not seek to contain china's development, nor do we wish to disengage from the chinese people. can you articulate what threats the chinese party represents to our democracy and our freedoms here, and what are we doing to the chinese strategy as we try to manage during your administration here as we try to manage this turn in our relationship with china, to confront them, to stand up to them, but also to protect our freedoms here at home? >> senator, there are multiple fronts to this. and these aren't created by the department of state. they're created by what the chinese communist party says, to your point. president trump recognized that. he talked about it in his campaign, as far back as 2015. we have to get this imbalance corrected. and when we do, there will be costs associated with that. we have got the largest increase in our military build-up that president trump has led. we're very focused on a

he has ensured the chinese communist party spies posing as blue mats in america are jailed or sent back to china -- diplomats in america are jailed or sent back to china. those jobs are coming back home. in north korea, the president lowered the temperature, and against all odds got the north korean leadership to the table. no nuclear tests, no long-range missile tests, and americans held captive in north korea came home to their families as did the precious remains of scores fought.s who in korea today because of president trump, nato is stronger and ukraine has defensive weapons systems and america left a treaty so to deter weapons in the middle east. when anaren this is the man most responsible for the murder and maiming of thousands of christians across east, and you will recall when the president took office, radical islamic terrorists had to be headed americans and isis control the size of great britain. today because of the president's determination, the isis caliphate is wiped out, it is gone. and people leader is dead our brave soldiers are on their way home. the u.s.dent exite

this is against the chinese communist party. we need to make a big distinction there, and that is our enemy of the chinese communist party is not a force for good. those who lost 140,000 lives and family members related to them, that's who they can blame. we can look to the chinese communist party for withholding information, blaming even at one point it was very feeble attempt at the blend our u.s. military for this coronavirus. that felt like a lead balloon. it was completely false but realize it's the chinese community party that is our enemy here. >> thank you, guys very much. i have been looking behind over my shoulder and some of you, we got a little inside joke, the most dangerous place in d.c. is anywhere between the president of the freedom caucus andy biggs and the camera. he is itching to get up there with a few other brothers so thank you very much. take your personally this country. give them all around of applause. [applause] >> you guys just were in for a treat. we have for bulk of the constant coming out represen

she said, "only the number one is selected to join the chinese communist party."e best people are going inside there. you know what, kishore... it has a lot of flaws, and we emphasise that. that is one example, one could cite you numerous examples. you know that there was a recent article in the economist magazine saying many in the chinese communist party resent xijinping's brutal anti—corruption campaign, which has been used in part to eliminate his political enemies. the degree of opposition he faces is reflected in the large number of personnel changes he's engineered in the party's intelligence, security and military hierarchies. there are plenty of examples of his authoritarianism, both at home and also his reduction of autonomy in hong kong. his treatments of the millions of uyghurs, who are — according to the united states and many others — being held in concentration camps. i could go on and on, but you're still defending. you're still defending him. i'm glad you mentioned the economist, because in august 2020, the economist came out with a cover story po

why are they going from 80% to 90% for support for the chinese communist party because the chinese communisthat i'm talking about, one of the most met aquatic institutions in the world and i tell a story in my book, and i had a research assistant in my book, a bright young student from china telling me the story of her life, and she was so sad, number two life, and she was so sad, numbertwo in life, and she was so sad, number two in the class and i asked you what's wrong with being number two in the class? and she said only the number one is selected to join the chinese communist party. so you can imagine the aspirations of young people in china, the best people. . .. young people in china, the best people.... you know young people in china, the best people. . .. you know what, kishore mahbubani. .. 0ne people. . .. you know what, kishore mahbubani... one could cite numerous examples and you know that. there was a recent example in the economist magazine thing that many in the chinese communist party resent the brutal campaign by shipping, to eliminate enemies and the degree of opposition he

tell me what's going on with this latest power grab of the communist party? >> maria i think you're right this is just a continued instance of the pattern china has over to use this pandemic for cover to take aggressive action against our neighbors. as you say they essentially invaded india and killed 20 indians a couple months ago and cracked down on hong kong and now, they are once again up to no good and this is a maul set of islands just to the north of taiwan to the east of china, in the east china sea, and they sit on very critical commercial roots. they have very rich fishing waters and top oil & gas. china as you say now has had a presence around those islands for the longest period of time since 2012 the last time there was a flare-up and notably china is saying they are going to lift the ban on fishing around those islands next saturday. if that happens i would predict you'd see a large number of fishing vessels, many of which are going to be in reality chinese coast guard or even chinese navy, probably armored up and ready to fight back against jap

in our culture are the channels communist party is the largest the political party in the world with more than 93000000 members so i don't think i'm pale really knows what he's talking about the chinese people are really very much united will accomplish plenty of china why because they eat improve the living standards of the chinese people they fight off the coronavirus they save people in the middle of the curler batters even those people in that mine tips for example this is why the commies idea of china in china earns a lot of credential analyser is facts and support from the chinese people song i. whatever it wishes my popeil may have is they should is alicia's all futility. daniel one of the things they find very curious and it kind of you don't tales in with the rise of this pandemic is that for some reason the united states with its current political order and the political order in china run by the communist party as we've just heard here all the sudden they can't co-exist it's really quite remarkably nice they co-existed 1st 70 years but a little last 4 months all i hea

we're not happy with the chines communist party.he america people aren't happy. it's like going up in terms of people viewing china as a threat . i think we have a president and donald j trump who is the only president who has ever stood up to the chinese communist party through things like his tariffs which apparently joe biden now wants to get rid of. >> i think we can agree on the changes in this relationship that have taken place over the last eight months. that is quite clear. you mentioned jim eli, he was here in new york last summer an we had him talking about his push for more democracy in hong kong. he was arrested, lit out of his newspaper his sons are in jail as well. at the same time, in taiwan, which i believe as the highest ranking member of any men ministration man ministration i decades to visit taipei. given those headlines, what are you trying to meshes to beijing? >> here is what puzzles me. it continues to puzzle me eight months later. we know that china, the chinese communist party infected the united states wit

and there's been a warning of the chinese communist parties behavior increasingly. it's only been in the past few years that these parties have become mainstream. i spent a great deal of time in congress wondering why exactly that's the case. why did it take us so long to wake up. what is it about the present moment that has awakened the western world to the threats posed by the chinese communist party. and because we have been trapped in our various basements during last few months. i recently sat down and watched the 2017 classic film, will for you too. the hud's roasting chinese film of all times. and for those of you who are fans of this film. you will note that the films call imax on the antagonist is an american mercenary, named big daddy is about to kill the hero a former special ops soldier. big daddy attempt to jam it knife into his throat and he gloats and says, people like you will always be inferior to people like me. so get used to it. spoiler alert, he turns the table around brimley stabs big daddy to death with a bullet that was on his necklace. the s

and that information campaign by the chinese communist party's going to intensify, certainly. but they're also becoming more aggressive militarily. even in the south china sea where the last couple days they formed these two municipalities, this big land grab from the south china sea, intimidating the malaysian navy and so forth and a lot of violations of taiwanese air space. and what you're seeing, i think, as a result of this kind of behavior is a backlash internationally. and i think that's a positive trend, right? this is -- germany trying to charge china $130 billion. you see the backlash against china of two-thirds of americans in a recent poll have a negative view certainly of the chinese communist party. so i guess the question and what we ought to track now is, you know, what -- how does this competition play out, and what is the internal dynamic associated with this. you know, china is, has acted in an i egregious manner, of course, harassing the doctors that tried to warn about this. and then in recent days, you know, arresting people who advocate for the chinese pe

that is what the chinese communist party wants.as democrats are concerned, biden is saying on one hand he would be just as tough as president trump but to your point, governor cuomo calls it the european virus, not the china virus. >> wow. charles: let's face it, it does help when the american public believes that president trump, everything that he did was a mistake with respect to covid-19. so, you know, i don't disagree with you. i understand when you say that dog doesn't bark, referring to the one or more famous sherlock holmes stories, you're not trying to diss anyone -- >> i did call them running dogs for the chinese communist party. i do mean that. you know, one other thing about the convention if i may, charles, just quickly. last night the blood of bernie sanders bernie bros was all over the floor of that digital convention. aoc in the brief microwave minute. i want to say to the bernie bros, come home to the party of economic nationalism. we will save your factories. we will save your jobs. i thought what was embarrassing

the crackdown on the chinese communist party continues.week president trump issued executive orders to ban the popular chinese apps tiktok and we chat from operating in the united states if they are not sold by their parent companies within 45 days. the ban is over national security concerns. the order says that the apps, quote, threaten the national security, foreign policy and the economy of the united states. joining me now to discuss this and a lot more is the author of the great book, "the great u.s./china tech war." dwor can chang is here. thank you so much for being here. do you think this was the right move on the administers' -- administration's part x if microsoft ends up acquiring tiktok, do you think you get chinese surveillance out of that company given the fact we know it's coming from a chinese company? >> yeah. this was exactly the right move from the trump administration. we know that, for instance, tiktok was surveil ising users, that it was surreptitiously downloading software on users' devices, it was misusing the data

electronic ties whatsoever to the chinese communist party.ve to reassure them. i suspect they have been given some kind of assurance already because, i believe that is, why president trump is bringing it up as a realistic option they're exploring but i think the details of what that really means from a cyber perspective, they will have to be laid out. david: "the wall street journal" suggests that china, that chinese communist party, important to make that distinction, between china and the chinese communist party that controls so many people there they think something more is going on. perhaps is all an attempt to make china pay back some of its responsibility for unleashing the pandemic. what do you think of that? >> well, i really think it had more to do with the concern that we have 165 million americans on that site and our government believes that site is being used for the benefit of the chinese communist party in accessing personal information of americans. i accept that at face value, if that is what our government -- they have much

entities or commercial entities being driven by the chinese communist party that present nationalnited states of america. so your question says will there be other companies that follow i hope not i hope the chinese communist party will disconnect and not operate the way they do but through the extent and i anticipate this will be the case that they continue to demand that every state-owned enterprise, every chinese company is beholden to his security apparatus we will continue to go after them to make sure the american people have the security levels that they have and expectation with respect to not only technology firms but every company operating here in the united states. >> mr. secretary, there is a lot of talk about obviously not just selling the u.s. part of tiktok, but it tends to be reported as plus canada, plus new zealand, plus australia and that those four countries exposure of tiktok would be what is carved out and sold off why those four countries if it's five eyes why isn't the uk part of it, if it's nonchinese u.s. allies why isn't europe part of it? >> i apprecia

chineseder the communist party is our chief competitor and russia is a key adversary. the efforts of these nations to sow discord, wreak havoc, and undo the free and open international order upon which shared prosperity and security are built have reached new heights. they have stepped up disinformation and manipulated international institutions, suppressed voices of freedom and democracy, propped up heinous dictators, invaded their neighbors, and denied millions of people access to lifesaving humanitarian assistance. we have a long road ahead of us in this new era of great power competition. we need sustained political will. these challenges require nothing less. on top of all of this, we are confronted by a new challenge, a biological enemy that we still do not fully understand, an enemy that in six short months has inflected doubles of physical and economic harm on the world we have not seen in more than 100 years. here china especially but also russia has played a destructive role, from holding -- withholding data to spreading disinformation and actively stealing v

it's about the communist party's surveillance state and 5g as the backbone.hese apps are appendages as well as cloud and it's also about the great china firewall where all data can go in but doesn't come out and all the propaganda come out but the truth cannot come back in. it's also about reciprocity because our apps aren't allowed in china. you know, you look at youtube or google search. this is part of a comprehensive effort that secretary pompeo recently announced called the clean network and he announced the expansion of that with the launch of five new clean initiatives. clean apps, clean store, clean cloud, clean cable, underwater cable. liz: what are the key issues you are looking for in terms of approvi approving, again, my sources are telling us here at fox business it's microsoft. so if microsoft were to come and say look, we've got a binding signed deal, what are you going to sift through and look specifically for to say okay, that will do it? >> i think always, the most important thing, liz, after spending 30 years in silicon valley, it's about t

why didn't we see the threat from the chinese communist party earlier and adapt to it?y asked a question about chinese information warfare and says third gets to your point about reciprocity. how can they do diplomacy we can't have the chinese villain in u.s. movies to this gets to influence over hollywood in connection with chinese influence operations churning out -- a great report by hoover and i should make a plug right now for a wonderful hoover program that misha is integral to, which is on china, sharp power, that larry diamond and others are working on as well here at hoover, and then zack had a question. back in the day we had the u.s. information agency and the question is, why did it take is so long and why are we seem not to be adapting to the information dimension of this and do you have any ideas but how to respond to the party's effort to influence us in such way we don't respond effectively to these various foreigns of aggression? >> i would say in term 0 book i try to address this he chapter called the new china rules should have called the new beijing

and then courtesy of the chinese communist party, the virus struck. the president quickly took action and shut down travel from china. joe biden and his democrat allies called my father a racist and a zeno fobe for doing it. they put political correctness ahead of the safety and security of the american people. fortunately, as the virus began to spread, the president acted quickly and insured ventilators got to hospital that needed them most. he delivered p.p.e. to our brave front line workers and he rallied the mighty american private sector to tack this will new challenge. there's more work to do, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel. job gains are outpacing what the so-called experts expected. but biden's radical left wing policies would stop our economic recovery cold. he's already talking about shutting the country down again. it's madness. democrats claim to be for workers, but they've spent the entire pandemic trying to sneak a tax break for millionaires and democrat states into the covid relief bill. then they attacked my father for s

china, communist party, people's republic party of china. unfair trade practices, intellectual property theft and market manipulation and very prominently in my view, m nonreciprocal treatment. not just an economic room but in many realms. it has been a force in the global economy that undercuts the resiliency and strength of the u.s. economy. china has been one of the world's fastest growing economies. averaging close to 10 percent growth from 1979 to 2016. in 2014, china was the world's largest economy and nursing power bases according to the international monetary. i believe there is a strong bipartisan interest, hopefully we will see that today. in establishing a long-term economic united states strategy. with our allies that focuses on reciprocity and intellectual property theft, and ultimately the united states percent effective, not competing the chinese. in may, the white house issued its document called the united states strategic approach to the people's republic of china. this document stated that the chinese communist party's exp

but, as we know, the communist party, the general secretary of the communist party, doesn't care about any of these things. we watched the communist party use drones to surveil us. we watched, as my colleague said, the tiktok become a worldwide phenomenon and it is an opportunity for the communist party of china to surveil all of our citizens who are using it. so i want to thank my colleague for his effort in this regard but not just this but all of his efforts to hold communist china accountable. there is a lot of work to do. as we know, this pandemic was way worse because of the actions of the communist party in china so this is a commonsense thick to do. we should not are have tiktok on federal government phones. this is a good first step, but there's a lot more to do to continue to hold communist china accountable and make sure we all, as americans, understand that we are now in a cold war. this is not a cold war that america started. this is a cold war that the comiewbist party of china -- communist party of china started led by xi. we will have to focus on how to prevent them fro