mr. anthony shalala, national officer for military issues. thank you for being here, without objection, your written statement, looks like there is one, will be made part of the record. and, we will turn it over to you all for comments you would like to make. mr. schneller, you are starting first? >> i believe the early agreement was that i would start. thank you, first of all, ranking member smith, members of the committee. we appeared before you, to discuss the very real chinese adversarial behavior to which you have referred. and, this is not about the threat of such behavior. this is real behavior. we are here to underscore the urgency with which all of us much focused though she must focus our action to maintain the technological and military dominance. i thank you for the trust you have laced in myself and fellow witnesses to discuss this topic in this open setting. as carefully as we can. we did submit a single joint statement because we wanted to be together rather than separate. we have a common view of this topic. but our conversati