hyperbole, his measure and thoughtful. his committee has a hearing with china s threat to the united states, we should take notice from covid-19 to spy balloons to partnering with russia to threatening taiwan there is no shortage of work for a committee formed to investigate china. every week brings a new challenge from china engaging with saudi arabia and france in secret chinese police stations in the united states to china trying to broker some peace agreement between russia and ukraine. what exactly is china up to and what should the u.s. do about it. trey: joining is now the chairman of the select committee congressman mike gallagher from the great state of wisconsin, welcome, president biden has been all over the map in terms of his description of china and quite frankly some of what he said is not reconcilable, the gist of it he says china is not a threat, what do you say. china is our form of national security threat in the near-term and long-term end in the near-te
we have a couple of shortfalls, one, in order to avoid war or prevent war, the paradox you have to prepare for it yet to put the pentagon on award fitting in order to deter aggression across the taiwan strait. were not there we don t have the sense of urgency and they told me he was not concerned about the stockpiles of munitions west of the international dateline and indo pacific peter every wargame we quickly brought out of munitions so we need to build weapons, long-range precision fires and because of the charity of geography in the pacific you have to assume you re going to be fighting only with what s already there. if you re waiting for ships and men and material to go from southern california across the pacific. it s too late given what china s going to do that the primary thing we haven t been moving fast enough to put hard power and xi jinping spat. the other thing were so economically dependent on china
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