Root out corruption of a prosecutor that the entire western world wanted gone from ukraine because he was to there going live it center for the new american security. E will be hearing from hawley. Josh and ask ourselves which assumptions hold. How will the future demand Different Things be done then we have been done in the past . To address these questions and other ones as well, we are very pleased to host senator josh has been missouri he thinking deeply about Foreign Policy, the assumptions behind it and how it should and must change americas approach. He took office in january 2019 after serving as missouris attorney general. He is the youngest senator in the United States senate and serves on the Armed Services committee, judiciary committee, and Homeland Security committee. In his time in congress, senator hawley has emerged as a major voice in the debates toward china, including on the issue of hong kong, on technology issues, and on an array of National Security issues more broadly. Join we are asking you to join us in welcoming senator hawley. [applause] sen. Hawley is great to be back and with you this morning. My theme is americas elation ship with the world. Americasdent relationship with the world. As any student knows, it has always been unusual because we are an unusual nation. We were the first to break from its parent country. We were the First Republic of the modern era and in history to be governed by a middleclass. Short, ain revolutionary nation and all these years later, we live by that revolution still. Republicantionary heritage has shaped all of our dealings with the world beyond. For the first century, we ventured not abroad in search of , we venturedestroy not abroad much at all today, the American Public is rightly skeptical of openended commitments and rightly tired of endless wars. Have rarely been content as a status for power. We have long sought to make the road different, better, safer for our republic and for our way of life. Now we find ourselves at a new crossroads, to an uncertain future. The long Twilight Struggle that defined Foreign Policy for half a century has been over now for half as long. But the longpromised and of history has not yet arrived. Almost 30 years ago, George H W Bush spoke eloquently at a new world order in the aftermath of the cold war, a new era of universal liberal values. Instead we find ourselves embroiled in the longest war in our nations history with no discernible nations history with no discernible an insight, divided at home and searching for purpose abroad. All the while, the greatest threat to our nation poses security in decade nations security in decades rises as china. Our president for policy consensus, the mind and expectations embraced by both major parties for the last 20 years is not adequate to our time, and it is not right for our future. This consensus has left us distracted from the dangers at hand, left us unprepared for challenges we face, and it has been rejected by the people of this country. I am talking about the consensus that i will call progressive new world order. It is the goal of extending multilateral rules based patterns and cooperation to the entire International System. Steady expansion of progressive ideas, progressive institutions, and progressive values worldwide. Both Major Political parties embraced this vision, though in different guises. The american left emphasized the expansion of multilateral institutions and decisionmaking. They prioritize cooperative bodies like nato and the United Nations and stress International Norms and International Law as the Building Blocks of a progressive local order. Their version of a universalist project saw the United States as indispensable, but also regarding regarded american policy is a danger. They pushed to integrate the United States or deeply into multilateral bodies and patterns of cooperation. Their aim has been to use american influence to expand a network of norms and rulesbased partnerships around the globe. On this approach, the International System would come to look more like america and america would become inseparably bound to the system. American conservatives, on the other hand, a somewhat different lesson from the end of the cold war. The left believed one shared same values around the world, and the right included that they should share our values and should. For many conservatives this meant building a world of democracies. This ambition required willingness to force changes in hostile regimes, to attempt to democratize regions and preserving the ability of our government. Conservatives had not fundamentally disagreed with their counterparts on the left about the ultimate goal of creating a progressive International System, it is just that they doubted it could be realized to multilateral institutions. Day,e end of the conservatives didnt trust anyone to get the job done but america. And for this reason, many conservatives embraced unilateralism and defended the projection of american hard power. The difference between left and right and how precisely to achieve the universalist vision and how precisely to arrange it features have led to fights that are by now all too familiar, unilaterals him unilateralism versus multilateralism. In the decades since the cold war, right and left to have steadily expanded american commitments, steadily expanded americas military footprint, expanded americas military involvement in every theater of the globe in all manner of projects. From punitive airstrikes to humanitarian aid. It is this consensus of left and right together that deserves fresh scrutiny. More than that, it deserves replacement. The universal Progressive International order never fully arrived because it was never fully rooted in reality. Andmoment at the cold war was bound to pass and it has. That moment was an aberration, a tramp at one, but one that offers a triumphant one, but one that offers no road forward for policy today. Most didnt senate for the universalist project. Russia nor china never agreed to play the part assigned to them. Pursuit left the United States without clear focus with metastasizing focus has been paid for in the dollars the american working clash working class and lives of american soldiers. As we honor our veterans one day after veterans day, lets not forget who they are. They are drawn overwhelmingly from middle and workingclass families and a familys and families with military histories. The wars have fallen on these americans in this country cannot continue to ask them to fight on without a clear purpose and without clear priorities. So it is time for a new departure. Aced on americas needs in this new century, the point of american Foreign Policy should not be to remake the world to keep americans safe and prosperous. And those aims are inservice to a higher one, to preserve, to protect, to defend our unique american way of democracy. Nation, theublican first of its kind in history. It is time we pursued a Foreign Policy in keeping with that National Character and the National Interest that character defines. So we should begin here with americas history and americas. Haracter we were the First Republic in the world founded on the political power of the middle class. Though the rights of suffrage or to narrow at our founding and the rights of citizenship were unjustly constricted, still the United States was never governed by an ancestral aristocracy. It was founded for the middle of society, by the class of independent workmen and artisans and farmers. They supported the revolution and sent their sons to die for it. They were the ones who ratified the constitution and that constitution was written with them in mind. Since our founding, the citizenship class has only expanded, not without great struggle, and the character of our republic is only become more firmly entrenched. Our culture, our economy, our theory of freedom, is premised on the dignity and power of the working man and woman. Ours is a middleclass republic. And to preserve the american nation needs to preserve the security and prosperity of this american middle. This forms the basis of our interest in the world. We seek an International Order where we can practice our unique way of democracy. We seek an International Order that will allow our working people to prosper and to maintain their political and economic independence. Of course, we seek an order where the country our people call home is physically safe and physically secure. We are today a vast continental nation and our middle class is large and to enable its posterity, we manufacture and trade, not only among ourselves but others beyond our borders. Our middle class character makes us a commercial nation, and for that reason, a trading nation. American interests are inseparably bound up with access to other regions of the world on open and equal terms. American security requires that this nation be free to seek out commercial partners and free to negotiate with those partners for terms favorable to all sides. Ifcan only pursue those ends no region of the world, if no key area vital to us is dominated or controlled by another power. As americans, have long defined political liberty at home as freedom from domination. That is the theory of our constitution, and it should be the keystone of our Foreign Policy abroad. We seek an International System that is free from hegemonic rule, free from control i anyone state. We seek by any one state. Where they can meet on a level field and control their own destinies. This has long been our ambition in the world. When this nation was still in its infancy, and the borders did not yet spanned the continent, the Monroe Doctrine announced our intention to prevent foreign power from exercising dominance in our hemisphere. This hemisphere was then the region of important to our security. In the first and second world wars, our aims were similar. This nation took up arms far from home to stop imperial powers from seizing control of europe and asia. And the same logic guided americas hand through the cold ,ar, across administrations this nation pursued strategies and alliances to stop the soviet union from dominating europe and asia and ultimately the globe. And we succeeded. Amid this history, america pursued its own experiment with imperialism. Thankfully, the American People rejected that policy and this nation has rightly renounced imperial ambitions. We should be clear that imperial domination violates our principles and threatens our character. Our aim must be to prevent imperialism not exercise it, to stop domination not foster it. Aw we must gird ourselves for new effort because new aallenges new effort because new challenges await and new dangers arise. In the worlds most critical of regions, and a pacific endopacific. It is here that we most focus. This region, the sprawling expanse with diverse peoples and cultures and natures is critical for our trade, critical for our jobs and critical for our national welfare. Where the menace of hegemony looms. It is evident to everyone in this room that the wants free pacific is less so. The peoples republic of china gathers strength by the day, interfering in the affairs of neighbors, distorting and manipulate commerce while giving as little as possible in return. It is not just about trade and investment and programs like the belt and road initiative, which seek to bend the wealth of the world to the Chinese Communist party. China brazenly bullies allies and partners, aggressively militarize as the sea and openly seeks control of the entire region. We see this in hong kong, where promises were broken and violence escalates and basic liberties are restricted or just brazenly ignored. We see it in taiwan, where a free people stands fast against the power bent on erasing their independent identity. We see it in our own corporations, like disney and the nba, who throw overboard free speech at the first sign of beijings commercial pressure. When it comes to commerce, it is true, china buys our products. It is also true that they have given us a degree of market access. But for years, this growing commercial relationship with china has concealed another inconvenient truth, our producers and our workers are increasingly at the mercy of the Chinese Communist party. China is building its own military and economic power on the backs of our workingclass. This reality has been right in front of us for those who have cared to look. Over 3 Million Manufacturing jobs left our shores in the first dozen years of this century due to china. Devastating families and gutting communities in places far from this town. Our workers known for years with the city is only just beginning to discover that the beijing regime will first take from you and then replace you the second it gets a chance. Chinas drive for read your hegemony is a clear and present danger. At every juncture china has grown strength, so has its governments willingness to weaponize and leverage and project its power. China has been for domination and it is a security threat, the greatest to this country. Foreign policy around the globe must be oriented to this challenge and focused principally on this threat our efforts to counter jihad is him jihad jihadism and others are essential and remain in americas interest. We must address them in light of the china bid for dominance. This is more than a contest between economic competitors, much more than a rivalry. Ins is a bid for mastery authoritarian and imperial state that we fundamentally cannot trust and cannot fundamentally ignore. Change to adapt and answer this new reality. Means strengthening ties with existing allies and partners in the reason in the region, those who have kept this region open and free. It means seeking out new partners, like india, and old foes like vietnam, who share our needs. It means a robust presence in key strategic presence to sustain deterrence and conquering maligned chinese influence in other arenas, from africa to latin america, to our colleges and universities here at home. It meanstantly, evaluating our current range of commitments to ensure that this challenge has the attention and resources it needs at this crucial time to succeed. Limitlessight is not and our other lives and treasure of the American People. And now we must make hard choices and articulate clear priorities in order to meet the challenge before us. Our task is not to remake china from within. Rather, it is to deny beijings ability to impose its will without, whether it be upon hong kong or taiwan or allies and partners or upon us. We cannot remake every nation in our image, but what we can do is act in a manner that reflects americas character by resisting the tierney of domination by anyone state in anyone region, we protect our way of life and our friends in support freedom loving people everywhere. Our Foreign Policy can change and it must change. It is time we faced facts and address the world as it is. It is time our foreign honored this nations unique nation pose a unique history and character. For those who advocate for withdrawal and isolation, i say that will not keep americans safe and prosperous. Ours must be a Foreign Policy for those who built this country, honors our workers and protecting their livelihood and way of life and respects our Service Members by asking them to sacrifice only for a justified purpose and only with a reasonable plan. World isse in the informed by our character at home and by our enduring aspiration to be a free people. Our unique way of democracy is a gift to us and to the world. Now we must rise to defend it again in our day. By championing a free and open International System, by striving for world free from domination and imperialism, we do our part to Carry Forward our revolutionary inheritance. Our nation will be safer for it, our people will be more prosperous for it, and the world be better because of it. Thank you so much for having me. [applause] sen. , thanks so much for your thoughtful and comprehensive comment. I thought when the most interesting aspects of this was your connection between the middle class and with the people in places like missouri care about in terms of their physical protection, prosperity, and basic freedoms and what we are trying to do in the rest of the world. This is when the overarching questions of our time about how you orient a Foreign Policy toward that. I will ask you to start by spelling out a little bit about what you are worried about specifically with china. If asia is dominated by china, what it does to the allies and partners but what does it do to those living in the United States who do not want to think about china every day. What does that look like . It means that we cannot continue the prosperity of the middle and working class, period. Endopacific is vital to us and we have to have access on free terms. We dont need to dominate that and we shouldnt and we dont need to act like a hegemon. We need to act for the basic character of this country to continue. Our middle class and working class right now is under significant pressure and this is the theme of our domestic politics. We cannot afford a world in which