So, if I’m getting this right, we’re in the midst of a systemic competition with China which will determine whether the future of the world is characterized by freedom and cooperation, or oppression and control.

The battlegrounds are the global information space, technology, the military, the economy and values.

And yet, rather than focusing on developing and executing a plan to save American lives and livelihoods from a needlessly awful pandemic...

In the last week, we have gutted the USAGM, the body most critical to our capacity to shape the global information environment in favor of truth and democratic integrity.

We have withdrawn completely from the competition to attract the world’s best and brightest scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs.

We have damaged the integrity and trust in the US military by threatening to deploy them against American citizens, against their sworn oath.

And a former national security advisor explained to us that the President voiced his support to Xi Jinping for the internment in camps of millions of people on the basis of their religion and ethnicity.

I’d like to speak to the manager.