Freemarket economics in judeochristian principles. During this session several members of the House Freedom caucus discussed u. S. China relations and how it impacts their districts. Welcome back to the center. We had an actionpacked day. You are about ready to see the best of the best. These are the heroes in congress from Freedom Caucus and the conservative caucus. My good friends up in d. C. Still fighting the fight, that we are still china today and on going to go one by one. We have three panels of four u. S. Congressman so we are honored to have all of you here today, and lets just start off with brian babin from texas, and bryant, im going to leadoff with the other brothers from congress who can do this in the back room, hello, brothers back there, and sisters. I can hear you in the back room. They are all my friends. Con babbitt, want to ask you all kinds of first hurdle is upon which anything else depends is the sense of how did china send us this virus . Was it intentional in in respect . Was it an accident that will know they came from wuhan district. We all know it was near a lab but everything hangs on this proposition, right . With 40 Million People out of work. We have got death and suffering, family breakups come depression medicine through the roof, bankruptcies of small business, disaster in this country. In some sense it is caused by china. How do you articulate how morally responsible is china for the virus coming this way . Its great to be here with you. Great to see you. Great to be with my colleagues. I think absolutely china is responsible for this pandemic. Theres a question about it. Whether they did it intentionally or whether it was just a mess up, thats hard to say but i will say this. They were prohibiting flights within china to and from wuhan while at the same time they were allowing flights to europe, to the United States and around the world. It leads one to believe that they were either trying to cover it up so much that they accidentally let it out but accidentally on purpose let it out, lets put like that. We are all aware this thing has been politicized. I really want, dont want to go too much down that road in your district are folks getting the sense it is from china and that the damage is therefore on china . Which is it is the strongest evidence, they shut down beijing and wuhan but they allowed 400,000 out to iran, italy and new york and san francisco. What are your folks saying . My folks are livid. They are very upset. Personally i have known the china has been an adversary for many, many years as it will appear on the stage is. I think the average joe out there in the United States did not quite understand that. If theres anything that comes out of this pandemic its the fact that we have looked behind the curtain and we have seen a face of an adversary that wants to take us down and wants to supplant us as the number one nation on the face of this earth. I think if theres anything good that comes out of the pandemic it will be that the American People will be behind and supportive of efforts to keep china at arms length, hold them accountable for what theyre doing. Goodness gracious, dave, the administration has ordered the closure of a chinese consulate that in houston, texas, which i represent, a large swath of that area here of course in retaliation of their closing down one of hours in china. Whatever it takes we have to push back. We also have to protect the American People. To protect our intellectual property. We have to protect on the ranking republican on space and aeronautics subcommittee, and they have already, they have had launched last week going to mars, and only one nation has successfully gone through the seven minutes of terror going through the Martian Atmosphere in leading successfully with a rover, and that is the United States. Im waiting to see what happens over the next weeks and months, and we see what happens. But its absolutely necessary for the United States to gather our allies up and their eyes up and opened as well. Their blinders are off anything were going to see an alliance pushing back on china. Super, thank you. Congressman jody hice, my good friend, i have a also teaching Liberty University i might add, for the students lucky to have them do that. First of all welcome. Thank you. I have a tough one for you. The authors out on stage it we are at information were, technology war, economic war. Its not genetic yet. We dont want it to get there. With your reverend hat on, first, are we at war . The American People i think still do have a heavy dose of the judeochristian ethos in them. We always tend to think the rest of the world thinks like we do but the evidence from the cultural revolution in china six years ago up to today were seeing Human Behavior that we dont calculate. Thats kind of an open ended but as a pastor are we at war . If we are at war or war on amea people ready to say were at war . Whether there were to say it or not we certainly are. Its great to see. We miss you around here, and thank you for what youre doing ever Liberty University awesome job to do so. At the end of the day we are not just in a in a culture worker e in a spiritual war. Now in her own country but certainly you watch was happening right now in china. Their religious persecution is phenomenal right now in china from the weaker muslims to christians uighur muslims. Justin just in the last few wasy have torn down over to a 50 crosses. We have been putting forth resolutions tried to address this against International Law come against their own constitution. They have been massively attacking religious liberties to the extent of removing every religious symbols, raising churches to the ground, persecuting individuals. We know that over 80,000 uighurs that is never and transported the slave labor camps and its just something that has to be noticed and ask to be addressed and we have a responsibility here in the United States to bring those issues to light and to do it we can to address the. To folks interdistrict, can they stand to look at that evil, that atrocity over there . Weve got just the beginnings of cultural revolution going on here. The chinese would get rid of the old, confucius, religion, the statutes come your culture. We starting to see that here. Yes, we are. Are the people ready . Can they can see that the United States is changing in this direction of us would stand up and fight . Thats an outstanding point because where they are, okay, they are much further down the road in this avenue of religious liberties that we are. But they got there by the same type of things that were beginning to see here in the u. S. With rewriting of history, terry encounter monuments, going after it is an elevation of the state to replace god, really, and thats what now they have in china where there is an outright attempt to reeducate people to acknowledge that the state and itself is god. We are not there but we are seeing some of those seeds that grew into this type of into result have very much been planted or in process of being planted here in the United States, and we cannot afford to be silent on these issues, da. We can it be so as to whats happening in china nor can we be silent as to whats happening right now in the United States, that as a relates to all our liberties, freedoms, First Amendment rights and so forth if we do not stand firm on those issues the end result would be just as horrific as it is in china and other places in the world. We must stand for the basic principles. Gotcha. Thank you very much, congressman jody hice. Thank you. Ray good. Over two warren davidson, ohio rick warren, business background, mba, production, supply chain. Where is it that we went so far off track when our mba school but 100 supply chains for pharmaceuticals abroad . And other manufacturing, you know that industry. How did we get here . Well, china rx details this with respect to the medical supply chain and pharmaceuticals really nicely, a great book, solid author and really good recommendations and, of course, actions to correct it. You go back more broadly, post the cold war with the soviet union, the United States but he did develop a grand strategy, large of the what did happen china was ready to insert themselves into the void. Its been great for china, and as part of that the Clinton AdministrationHealth Create the structure of the world trade organization. As part of that china got special status as a developed economy and that was true back in the 90s. They have developed pretty nicely, the second largest economy in the world now. As part of that they agreed to be a market economy. Zero countries recognize china as a market economy. Every single trading partner would say the same things. They subsidize, they dont to the steel market share, they block Market Access in violation of wto commitments, then if you do happen to put anything in there, they were to take it over and still prevent the actual Market Access from happening. They feel a little property, not just in china but all over the world. They have a whole of country approach to doing this with their entire economy. And meanwhile the wto has set back complacent. Donald trump was calling this out before he was president turkey. He called it out during the campaign and his work hard to deal with it in china. Frankly the Biggest Issue has been frankly now rest of the world, blinders are often countries like france said hey, if you want protective equipment just agree to use huawei as your 5g provider. Like, who would do that . China would do that. Thats who would do that. Theres no dilution anymore as to the nature and character of chinas approach to dominating global trade. Talk about one belt, one road. You see what youre doing to small economies in africa for example, but theyre ready to do it to the rest of the planet. Weve really urgently have to either reshape the wti replace the Deputy Health and we need to really do that with an alliance that says youre more likely to win a war when you multiply your allies and when you multiply you in the spirit we do need to embrace that and deal with it and if they want that okay. Bye. Oni going to be drug there by implicit countries. Im curious on your constituents in ohio, kind of the manufacturing hub lost a lot of jobs come sing the southern virginia, where i am, and kind trump rant on the forgotten man of woman in the flyover country versus coastal elites. As the supply chains come back noted to instantly so the would be some pain on wall street. Mnuchin is slower than pompeo and the rest of them to come full on with this decoupling from china but in your district how do you view the coastal elites and is the message getting all the way through in ohio that hey we have got to deal with china so everyone understands it or is it just trying to warm up . Ohio was saying this all along. They were being ignored whether it was obama or mccain or romney, people saying those jobs are not coming back. Donald trump says theyre coming back and were going to fight for them. That message was perfectly calibrated for states like ohio, states like michigan, wisconsin, western p. A. , the quote rust belt. Its not rusty. Were manufacturing innovators. We still make more than ever in the United States of america but weve lost a lot of batch to china. Our compass can compete against any company in the world but they should have to compete against the nationstate. Meanwhile our nationstate has been handcuffing us. If you look, the same is true for Energy Production in the trend. You look at come with congressman perry back there, talked a lot about engagement finding and who once said the saudi want it, the russians want it, the chinese want it, anything to weaken our economy weaken our currency. We need to work hard. You know, the heartland of america, the message donald trump ran on resonates with win and, frankly, its time for deeds, not words. And very please with those results with the trade deals and get a long ways to go. We should really accelerate this and build on the momentum while we have everyones attention about how critical of the supply chain is. Congressman ted budd, carolina, businessman, attorney general barr gave a powerful speech a week ago and he talked about businesses that of are dg too much collaboration and collusion with china. A wakeup call for american business, et cetera. This week pompeo on International Scene gives powerful speech, action, we are starting to take actions and then houston, texas, taking action not words. Other folks in your district, are they paying attention to these key speeches . To the see whats going on on the world stage and how it impacts in. Is absolutely and i can tell you a story about a very sizable business multiple generation been in business over 10000 years and now i think this is a great warning to other businesses who have had this problem. They make pipe, jim i look at your kitchen sink or under your bathroom sink and you see their brand into. It are manufactured in china. But their logo, their schematic schematics, the imprint was on pipe being produced in china, being complete intellectual theft. We had to go assist them in the battle and say look with china is doing to this domestic company. Thats a warning to other companies. We are definitely seeing it. The u. S. , there is a Freedom Alliance brewing out there. Trump runs on this America First thing that people say this thia going to go good. Americas just self interested in looking at their own self interest, and it turns out hae we have got in the and australia in the uk and sets in africa president present all yelling at china now. So on the world scene its kind of ironic we do America First, editing and what is starting to see the deceit, the way china has been treating the subsaharan africa, the horn of africa. Just with contempt and maybe theyre not perfect but they are our allies. How can you you can see the auditory lending. They would loan realizing this nationstate wouldnt be able to pay the back and, therefore, they could take control of the port and were single hostile their intent ultimately is. For savant think we need to come back and realize this is not against the people of china. This is against the Chinese Communist party. We need to make a big distinction there, and that is our enemy of the Chinese Communist party is not a force for good. Those who lost 140,000 lives and family members related to them, thats who they can blame. We can look to the Chinese Communist party for withholding information, blaming even at one point it was very feeble attempt at the blend our u. S. Military for this coronavirus. That felt like a lead balloon. It was completely false but realize its the Chinese Community party that is our enemy here. Thank you, guys very much. I have been looking behind over my shoulder and some of you, we got a little inside joke, the most dangerous place in d. C. Is anywhere between the president of the Freedom Caucus andy biggs and the camera. He is itching to get up there with a few other brothers so thank you very much. Take your personally this country. Give them all around of applause. [applause] you guys just were in for a treat. We have for bulk of the constant coming out representing the parts of our great country, and at this point i just want to say a special thanks again to president falwell and charlie kurt for all we have done, the vision for the city, putting this together, stream it across the country. For those watching other were streaming does the cspan, americas voice, fox news, et cetera will be doing the same thing all day tomorrow. About to the Falkirk Center on facebook and you will see agenda there. You can stream to your computers, if your media and listening and we have media friends all around the country sharing our stream. You can go out to that link and use that string to throw out to your network. We want to thank brian, the director of the Falkirk Center for putting on this production, jared, i dont think hes in the room now, chris, just all the support in the back to run this program we had today. Its just been inspiring hearing from the leaders of our country. We are in for for a fight but a good fight and we have folks like this coming onto the stage to be in the fight with. Welcome, gentlemen. Thank you, guys. Readings. Always. All right. We will just start on the end with the chairman of the Freedom Caucus. You have seen them on fox news every day, and he was the head of the senate and the state hes from. He has this strategery mindset, in other words, hes very smart. So andy biggs, gibson was to pick whats at the Freedom Caucus doing on china . What she would be doing . How can the American People help in the fight against china . And are we at war with china . So people need to quit thinking of china as a peaceful economic adversary or economic opponent. Thats up with the art. Theyre not an economic competitor. China has over the last essentially 25 years moved itself away from a full on communist economy to some kind of hybridization of economy while maintaining the same type of communist authoritarian rule that they have had going back to mao and through done shopping, et cetera. So what we need to do Deng XiaopingFreedom Caucus doesnt take a formal position but we need t