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prc programs in china. i heard how the experiences deepen their knowledge inside and outside the classroom forge ties that will last will be on the shared educational experience. while there are more than 290,000 chinese students in the states, there are fewer than 900 american sitting here inex china. that is a significant drop from a decade ago we had about 15000. president xi said he wants a significant increase in number of american studying here in the coming o years and that is something we support. we have an interest in this. because of our future leaders whether it's in government, business, civil society, tech, and other fields that they are going to be able to collaborate there going to solve the problems that they are going to beo able to work through our differences they will need to know and understand each other. the language, culture, history. i told the counterparts they want to attract more americans here to china particular students the best way to do thau is to create the conditions that
prc programs in china. i heard how the experiences deepen their knowledge inside and outside the classroom forge ties that will last will be on the shared educational experience. while there are more than 290,000 chinese students in the states, there are fewer than 900 american sitting here inex china. that is a significant drop from a decade ago we had about 15000. president xi said he wants a significant increase in number of american studying here in the coming o years and that is something...
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prc counter narcotics working group. exchanging information on money laundering as it relates to trafficking of fentanyl and other illicit synthetic drugs can help us disrupt the flow of illicit narcotics, precursor chemicals, and equipment. the opioid at the adamic is a crisis that affects every community in the united states, large or small. with more than 150 americans dying each day. treasury is committed to using all of our tolls -- tools to counter this threat. third, we are announcing we will continue a series of financial technical exchanges between the united states and china. just like military leaders need a hotline in crisis, american and chinese financial regulators must be able to communicate to prevent financial stresses from turning into crises with tremendous ramifications for our citizens in the international community. over the past few months, we have hosted several exercises with china, including on how we would coordinate if there were to be a failure of a large bank in either of our countries. i'm
prc counter narcotics working group. exchanging information on money laundering as it relates to trafficking of fentanyl and other illicit synthetic drugs can help us disrupt the flow of illicit narcotics, precursor chemicals, and equipment. the opioid at the adamic is a crisis that affects every community in the united states, large or small. with more than 150 americans dying each day. treasury is committed to using all of our tolls -- tools to counter this threat. third, we are announcing we...
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after all, the prc does enough of that itself. chinese citizens are banned from accessing tiktok at all. no matter how loudly tiktok's apologists claim that reining in the influence violates the first amendment, the question we'll face is about conduct, not con content. i take a backseat to no one when it comes to protecting first americans rights -- first amendment rights. i've firmly defended america's right to even the most noxious forms of free speech, like flag burning. but there's a serious difference between the views americans might express on tiktok and the actions taken by a platform that's beholden to our foremost strategic competitor. let me borrow an analogy from someone who's been relentless on this issue, fcc commissioner brendan carr. here's what he had to say -- you can use a pen to write salacious anti-american prop can candiesa -- propaganda and the government can't censor that content, nor stop americans from seeking such messages out. but, if you use the same pen to pick a lock to steal somebody else's propert
after all, the prc does enough of that itself. chinese citizens are banned from accessing tiktok at all. no matter how loudly tiktok's apologists claim that reining in the influence violates the first amendment, the question we'll face is about conduct, not con content. i take a backseat to no one when it comes to protecting first americans rights -- first amendment rights. i've firmly defended america's right to even the most noxious forms of free speech, like flag burning. but there's a...
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facing russia and terrorism, for the first time in nato's history the strategic concept mentions the prc challenges associated with the prc form nato member states and the importance of keeping our partnership withs, our friends n the indo pacific. why is nato doing this? does this have aspirations to become a d global alliance and members in the indo pacific? absolutely not. that's not thers plan. our indo pacific partners don't have an interest in joining the alliance and the alliance is not looking to go global but what we see is increased utility in working together with their friends in the indo pacific on the number of shared security challenges that really have no geographic boundaries. disinformation, malicious cyber attack more emerging and disruptive technology. we be viewed these security challenges increasingly in one theater and not limited to just the atlantic or the pacific so nato is moving out while it's focused on the war in ukraine. it is moving out to deepen its important or partnerships with their friendsep to share best practices on those challenges. finally nato wh
facing russia and terrorism, for the first time in nato's history the strategic concept mentions the prc challenges associated with the prc form nato member states and the importance of keeping our partnership withs, our friends n the indo pacific. why is nato doing this? does this have aspirations to become a d global alliance and members in the indo pacific? absolutely not. that's not thers plan. our indo pacific partners don't have an interest in joining the alliance and the alliance is not...
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they know all your websites, all of your personal data so if you want privacy, i want them prc in my phone. what i like about the bill is it requires bite dance to divest often the united states and that means hopefully an american company would buy it and it just wouldn't be under the control of the prc narrative thinking manipulate with the world. >> isn't it true here in the united states -- >> not there algorithms can we force the company to show us their algorithm? you have to divest your assets. >> what happens if the president and our congress from a be more comfortable with the built a business they may come back and decide there is a successor company essentially the same thing and sending it to foreign countries? built on the greatest so brought if you have the wrong president cabinet from sacred use this bill to declare an app or website controlled by a foreign adversary not owned by controlled by medicine concern i have because we have seen these programs by executive branch the bill that passed in 2018 abused, they call it the nerve center and i'm afraid we are creating
they know all your websites, all of your personal data so if you want privacy, i want them prc in my phone. what i like about the bill is it requires bite dance to divest often the united states and that means hopefully an american company would buy it and it just wouldn't be under the control of the prc narrative thinking manipulate with the world. >> isn't it true here in the united states -- >> not there algorithms can we force the company to show us their algorithm? you have to...
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we are talking with them about disinformation campaigns, stemming both from the prc and from russia with those two countries are learning from one another. those four indo pacific partners find real value in exchanges with nato allies and similarly i can assure you the allies here find real value in exchanging ideas and best practices with those four countries. on top of iton though most of te end of pacific partners have provided valuable assistance to our friends in ukraine. whether it is economic assistance, humanitarian assistance or security assistance they are doing that because they understand ukrainians are not just fighting to preserve their own territorial integrity. they are in fact protecting and trying to preserve the key tenets of the un charter and that gets right back to the question of sovereignty. i will also note the alliance is increasingly talking about with the prc is doing in and around the euro atlantic area this is a creeping thing a topic of conversation here and said that nato alliance.id we are doing a lot more work in this space. and as we look at that challe
we are talking with them about disinformation campaigns, stemming both from the prc and from russia with those two countries are learning from one another. those four indo pacific partners find real value in exchanges with nato allies and similarly i can assure you the allies here find real value in exchanging ideas and best practices with those four countries. on top of iton though most of te end of pacific partners have provided valuable assistance to our friends in ukraine. whether it is...
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with the question of how do we draw attention, each of us, bilaterally in our relationship with the prc to call them out on this material support, to apply pressure not to provide that kind of support and make sure that they understand the consequences if they continue down this path and i think it's been a very effective area of work for all the transatlantic partners. we're seeing many countries across europe be much more forth coming in calling out the chinese for this no limits partnership with russia, but also, for their political support to what russia is doing in ukraine and that material support that i just mentioned. >> the core of the nato security guarantees since nato's creation 75 years ago, has basically been the american nuclear deterrent. and yet, we have seen in the past two years a revival of nuclear threats that are worrisome. i describe in the book the scare in october of 2022 when you and your colleagues were quite concerned, in fact, some of your colleagues said 50-50 chance that russia would detonate a battlefield nuclear weapon in ukraine. first, tell us a little
with the question of how do we draw attention, each of us, bilaterally in our relationship with the prc to call them out on this material support, to apply pressure not to provide that kind of support and make sure that they understand the consequences if they continue down this path and i think it's been a very effective area of work for all the transatlantic partners. we're seeing many countries across europe be much more forth coming in calling out the chinese for this no limits partnership...
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it would help meet the urgent needs of ukraine's resistance, equip indo-pacific allies to determine prc aggression, replenish israel's stocks of critical capabilities and expand our own capacity to refill and deploy the arsenal of democracy. anyone taking the challenges we face seriously knows that these unmet needs are absolutely urgent. so i'll once again urge our house colleagues to take up this legislation without delay. >> we have all watched what has happened with the iran strike this weekend and my colleagues across the aisle like to say that they support israel, but in this moment of peril for the world's only jewish state, i fear that what they're doing is deciding to play politics, and in the months after the october 7th attack, they insisted on tying aid for israel to supplemental packages that do not have the votes to pass through both chambers. now, republicans have been very clear, any supplemental bill that fails to address the security crisis at our southern border is a non-starter. we already have a solution to president biden's border crisis, it is hr2 #, the secure th
it would help meet the urgent needs of ukraine's resistance, equip indo-pacific allies to determine prc aggression, replenish israel's stocks of critical capabilities and expand our own capacity to refill and deploy the arsenal of democracy. anyone taking the challenges we face seriously knows that these unmet needs are absolutely urgent. so i'll once again urge our house colleagues to take up this legislation without delay. >> we have all watched what has happened with the iran strike...
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intersection of increasingly sophisticated mexican cartels with malicious and unscrupulous actors in the prc who are happy to be supplying the chemicals that fuel the cartels's production. we are trying to tackle it on a bunch of levels. our focus going back over decades is to try to look for ways to dismantle the enterprise, trying to go after the leadership whether we are charging them or someone else is charging them, trying to go after their money. a big part of this is going after, this is a profit business for them so the more we go after their assets and go after their money launderers, doesn't work for them if they don't have the people or institutions to launder their money so we are tackling infrastructure around them as opposed to one and two in terms of arrest. that's the approach we are trying to take. it has to be a team effort. >> do you need more money to do that or less money? >> we need more money. >> you mentioned violent gangs, seizures of massive amounts of fentanyl. am i correct in that? >> absolutely right. something like 75% of the fentanyl we are seizing is coming in
intersection of increasingly sophisticated mexican cartels with malicious and unscrupulous actors in the prc who are happy to be supplying the chemicals that fuel the cartels's production. we are trying to tackle it on a bunch of levels. our focus going back over decades is to try to look for ways to dismantle the enterprise, trying to go after the leadership whether we are charging them or someone else is charging them, trying to go after their money. a big part of this is going after, this is...
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day, they don't owe their obligation to their customers or their shareholders, but they owe it to the prc government. in the context of social media platforms used by nearly half of americans, it's not hard to imagine how a platform that facilitates so much commerce, political discourse, and social debate could be covertly manipulated to serve the goals of an authoritarian regime, one with a long track record of censorship, transnational aggression and promotion of disinformation. in recent weeks, we've seen direct lobbying by the chinese government indicating perhaps more than anything we can say on the floor here how dearly xi jinping is invested in this product, a product, by the way, that's not even allowed to operate in the chinese domestic market itself. story after story over the last 18 months has exposed the extent to which tiktok has grossly misrepresented its data security and corporate government practice. countless stories have refuted the claims made by tiktok executives and lobbyists that it operates independently from its controlling company, bytedance. we've also seen doc
day, they don't owe their obligation to their customers or their shareholders, but they owe it to the prc government. in the context of social media platforms used by nearly half of americans, it's not hard to imagine how a platform that facilitates so much commerce, political discourse, and social debate could be covertly manipulated to serve the goals of an authoritarian regime, one with a long track record of censorship, transnational aggression and promotion of disinformation. in recent...
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economic aggression is just as central to protecting our national security interests as deterring the prc in the taiwan strait. that's what makes this cold war far more difficult and complex than the old, because we never had to contemplate selective decoupling in the soviet union because our economies didn't really interact, whereas we are conjoined twins with china economically in the new cold war. and in their book, matt and dan call for this foreign reagan trump fusion. it combines that aggressive rebalance that will bring jobs to america while reducing ccp sources of leverage with a diplomatic approach that includes clear red lines for chinese behavior and is in peace through strength, both and reagan rejected a reliance on norms or mutually assured destruction in favor of a military buildup that aims but hard power in the path of our adversaries. american weapons did not stop mao from sending troops into korea. brezhnev, afghanistan, or putin into ukraine. we have no reason to think that will stop xi's craft from crossing the taiwan strait. we need to restore our conventional deterr
economic aggression is just as central to protecting our national security interests as deterring the prc in the taiwan strait. that's what makes this cold war far more difficult and complex than the old, because we never had to contemplate selective decoupling in the soviet union because our economies didn't really interact, whereas we are conjoined twins with china economically in the new cold war. and in their book, matt and dan call for this foreign reagan trump fusion. it combines that...
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definitely notse in europe bt obviously we dosl know are we certainly, there's a lot o of evidence the prc is watching carefully for lessons that russia is learning in ukraine in terms of resilience. unexpected resilience, the limited capability of some other cyber and other efforts to disrupt ukrainian capabilities spaced out if you might touch on maybe some or at least what you think some of the nato has lessons drawn about the war in ukraine that may also be exportable? >> very quickly on the other questions, i agree i agh everything have seven arms-control your in ally that helps would have to withdraw from npt. it's a real, that's a real no go i think. and on thehi nuclear deterrence, of course the uk does extend its nuclear deterrence to poland and to all members of nato because the nuclear deterrence is specifically assigned in unit. it is only one of the p3 that does that in those terms. i do think even if you were to see a change in uk in french posture for the reasons that heather alluded to earlier, i think it would almost certainly still be within broadly nato framework, the on
definitely notse in europe bt obviously we dosl know are we certainly, there's a lot o of evidence the prc is watching carefully for lessons that russia is learning in ukraine in terms of resilience. unexpected resilience, the limited capability of some other cyber and other efforts to disrupt ukrainian capabilities spaced out if you might touch on maybe some or at least what you think some of the nato has lessons drawn about the war in ukraine that may also be exportable? >> very quickly...
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we are talk with him about disinformation campaigns stemming both from the prc and from russia and what those two countries are learning from one another. so those partners find real value in exchange with nato allies, and similarly i can assure you that the allies here find real value and exchanging ideas and best practices with those four countries. on top of it though most of her indo-pacific partners have provided valuable assistance to a friend in ukraine, whether its economic existence, community assistance or security assistance. and they're doing that because they understand that ukrainians are not just fighting to preserve their own territorial integrity, but they are, in fact, protecting and trying to preserve the key tenets of the u.n. charter. and that gets right back to the question of sovereignty. but i will also note that the alliance is increasingly talking about what the prc is doing in and around the euro atlantic area. this is creeping me at topic of conversation inside the nato allies. we're doing a lot of work into space. and as we look at that challenge we can no d
we are talk with him about disinformation campaigns stemming both from the prc and from russia and what those two countries are learning from one another. so those partners find real value in exchange with nato allies, and similarly i can assure you that the allies here find real value and exchanging ideas and best practices with those four countries. on top of it though most of her indo-pacific partners have provided valuable assistance to a friend in ukraine, whether its economic existence,...
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industrial base would be even further behind the clear requirements of long-term competition with the prc. don't believe me? just ask the former chairman of the house select committee on chinese communist party who stayed in congress long enough to support the legislation now before us. second, supplemental investments have expanded our capacity to produce critical munitions. this contains additional investments aimed at expanding production capacity of critical munitions and weapons systems needed in the indo-pacific. higher production rates and lower unit costs of critical munitions are a no-brainer for colleagues who are actually interested in strategic competition with the prc. colleagues on the other side of the aisle who shea they're concerned over -- who say they're concerned over the defense industrial base today would have done well to join me months before russian escalation in ukraine in supporting a massive proposed investment under reconciliation led by our former colleagues senator shelby and senator inhofe. if some of our republican colleagues hadn't joined the democratic l
industrial base would be even further behind the clear requirements of long-term competition with the prc. don't believe me? just ask the former chairman of the house select committee on chinese communist party who stayed in congress long enough to support the legislation now before us. second, supplemental investments have expanded our capacity to produce critical munitions. this contains additional investments aimed at expanding production capacity of critical munitions and weapons systems...
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it would help meet the urgent needs of ukraine's resistance, equip indo-pacific allies to deter prc aggression, replenish israel's stocks of critical capabilities, and expand our own capacity to refill and deploy the arsenal of democracy. anyone taking the challenges we face seriously knows that these unmet needs are absolutely urgent. so i'll once again urge our house colleagues to take up this legislation without delay. on a related matter, in december the director of the fbi told our colleagues on the judiciary committee that when he surveys threats to the homeland, he saw, quote, blinking lights everywhere. iran's efforts to kill americans, compromise our communications and data, and collect intelligence an u.s. soil are already well-known. at this point so are the hundreds of known or suspecteded terrorists encounters along our borders in just the current fiscal year. at the end of the week, an essential authority america's law enforcement and intelligence professionals rely on to monitor an mitigate -- and mitigate serious threats is actually set to expire. the crucial window into the ac
it would help meet the urgent needs of ukraine's resistance, equip indo-pacific allies to deter prc aggression, replenish israel's stocks of critical capabilities, and expand our own capacity to refill and deploy the arsenal of democracy. anyone taking the challenges we face seriously knows that these unmet needs are absolutely urgent. so i'll once again urge our house colleagues to take up this legislation without delay. on a related matter, in december the director of the fbi told our...