Good afternoon. I am Christopher Nixon cox, grandson of president Richard Nixon. And on the half of my family and the board of directors of the Nixon Foundation i want to welcome you to another important event here at the Richard Nixon library, birthplace and use them, the of which is right behind me here. Today we are honored to have secretary of state mike pompeo to have chosen the Nixon Library to make a major speech about u. S. China relations. Like we do so often at the liberia, we are going to begia program with a prayer here would you please remain standing and welcome greg laurie, the Senior Pastor at Harvest Christian Fellowship for an invocation. [applause] lets all pray together. Father, were so thankful to live in this country, the United States of america. And one thing we treasure so greatly is the freedom we have from you to pursue life, liberty and happiness. We have the freedom to speak our minds, the freedom to worship and the freedom to proclaim the message that jesus christ died for our sins and rose from the dead, and to give the personal life, liberty and happiness it will put our trust in him. But with other brothers and sisters in other countries that dont have this freedom. We think of those suffering under the tyranny of china including our own persecuted church we pray for them that you would strengthen them and help them we thank you for President Trump wants to lead us courageously in the right way. And we thank you for secretary pompeo who is a champion of these rights. We pray for secretary pompeo as your servant as he travels around the world to help spread this freedom that we enjoy. We commit this meeting, this speech, most importantly our nation to you. We ask you to protect, guide and blessed the United States of america. In jesus name we pray. Amen. [applause] thank you, pastor. Lets remain standing as we salute our country. Please, with the presentation of colors and the National Anthem. [background sounds] oh, say, can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming . Whose broad stripes and bright stars thro the perilous fight oer the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there oh, say, does that starspangled banner yet wave oer the land of the free and the home of the brave . [applause] [background sounds] thank thank you, and you maye seated. And please join in thanking the air force blue eagles honor guard and Senior Airman kayla hyde smith of the air force band of the golden west for the beautiful rendition. [applause] my grandfather station and courage made the United States opening to china possible when he and my grandmother went there almost 50 years ago in 1972. He called that the week that changed the world, and he understood that the world is always changing. Secretary pompeo is on the frontline of americas Foreign Policy, and it is fitting that he is here at the nixon president ial liberia and birthplace to discuss the relationship between our two countries today. It is my privilege now to introduce a distinguished statesman, a mayor, a senator, i got on her, old and close friend of my family, the nixon family, who will introduce secretary pompeo. In fact, my family as this old and dear friend to eulogize both my grandmother and my grandfather in this exact location 26 and 27 years ago. Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming governor pete wilson. [applause] thank you very much, chris. Most generous. Im not sure your grandfather would have recognized me. I have great pleasure in addition to welcoming all of you to the nixon birthplace and liberia, i have the great pleasure of introducing to you an extraordinary american who is here at an extraordinary time. But the fun of it is, in introducing our honored guest, i also am welcoming him not just to the Nixon Library, but i am welcoming him back home to orange county. [applause] thats right. Mike pompeo was born in orange. [applause] he attended loss amigos high school in Fountain Valley where he was an outstanding student and athlete. In fact, i have it on Good Authority that among the fans of glory days of lobo basketball, a reverent hush the sins on the crowd whenever the name pompeo is mentioned. [laughing] the secretary was first in his class at west point. He won the award as the most distinguished cadet. He won another award for the highest achievement in engineering management. He spent his activeduty years, his army years in west germany, and as he put it, patrolling the iron curtain, before the fall of the berlin wall. In 1988 excuse me. Retiring with a rank of captain, he went on to Harvard Law School where he was an editor of the law review. In 1988 he returned to his mothers home state of kansas and began a stunningly successful business career. He was elected to the house of representatives from kansas in 2011 where he soon gained Great Respect for our reputation as one of the most diligent and astute members of the House Intelligence Committee. In 2017 President Trump nominated him to be the director of central intelligence. And in 2018 he was confirmed as our 70th secretary of state. You have to admit thats why an impressive resume. So its said theres only one thing missing, prevents it from being perfect. If only mike had been a marine. [laughing] [applause] dont worry, he will give even. Mike pompeo is a man devoted to his family. He is a man of faith, of the greatest patriotism and the highest principles. One of his most important initiatives at the state department has been the creation of a commission on unalienable rights where i come editions, philosophers and ethicists advise them on human rights grounded in americas founding principles, as a principles of the 1948 universal declaration of rights. He is here today for a very special reason. The epitaph on president nixons greystone is a sentence from his first inaugural address grave stone it says, or, the greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker. Richard nixon received that title. He won that honor not only because he was acknowledged even by his critics to be a brilliant Foreign Policy strategist, but it was far more because he earned it. He learned as congressman, senator, president , and every day thereafter as a private citizen ambassador that piece is not achieved by signing documents and decluttering the job done. To the contrary, he knew that piece is always a work in progress. He knew that piece must be fought for and won a new in every generation. It was president nixons vision, determination and courage that opened china to america and to the western world. As president and for the rest of his life, Richard Nixon worked to build the relationship with china based upon mutual benefits and obligations that respected americas bedrock national interests. Today, we in america are obliged to assess whether or not president nixons labors and his hopes for such a relationship have been met, or whether they are being undermined. That is why it is of such great significance that our honored guest, secretary pompeo, has chosen the Nixon Library from which to deliver a major china policy statement. It will, i promise you, be a statement of complete clarity, delivered with force and with relief because it is of critical importance. Ladies and gentlemen, it is my great honor and pleasure to welcome to this podium and to this audience our honored guest, the secretary of state of the United States of america, the honorable and really quite remarkable honorable michael pompeo. [applause] thank you. Thank you all. Thank you, governor, for that very, very generous introduction. It is true, when you walk in that jim and you say the name pompeo, there is a whisper. I i had a brother mark who was really good, a really good basketball player. And how about another round of applause for the blue eagles honor guard and Senior Airman came highsmith and her wonderful rendition of the National Anthem . [applause] thank you, too, to pastor lori that moving prayer, and want to thank hugh hewitt and the Nixon Foundation for your invitation to speak at this important american institution. Its great to be sung to buy an air force person, introduce by marine, and to let the army guy in in front of the navy guys house. Its all good. Its an honor to be here in yorba linda were nixons father built the house in which he was born and raised. To all the nixon center, board and staff are made today possible, its typical in these times, thanks for making this a possible for me and for my team. We are blessed to have some incredibly special people in the audience including chris, who ive gotten to know, chris nixon. I also want to thank tricia nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower for their support of this visit as well. I want to recognize several courageous chinese dissidents who joined as you did and made long trip. I to all the other distinguished guests [applause] to all the other distinguished guests, thank you for being here. For those of you who got under the tent, he must have paid extra. And those of you watching live, thank you for tuning in. And finally as the governor mentioned i was born here in santa anna, not very far from here. Ive got my sister and her husband in the audience today. Thank you all for coming out. I bet you never thought that i would be standing up here. My remarks today on the fourth set of remarks in a series of china speeches as National Security adviser robert obrien, fbi director chris wray, and the attorney general barr to deliver alongside me. We had a very clear purpose, a real mission. It was to find the difference has facets americas relationship with china, a massive imbalances in that relationship that have built over decades, and the chinese kindness parties designs for hegemony. The Chinese Communist partys designs. Our goal was to make clear that the threats to americas that President Trumps china policy aims to address are clear and our strategy for securing those freedoms established. Ambassador brian spoke about ideology. Director wray talk to as peanuts, attorney general barr spoke about economics. And now Michael Heitkamp altogether for the American People into detail what the china threat means for our economy, for our liberty and indeed for the future of free democracies around the world. Next year marks half a century since dr. Kissinger is secret missing to china and the 50th anniversary of president nixons trip isnt too far away in 2022. The world was much different then. We imagined engagement with china. We produce a future with bright promise, with cooperation but today, today were also Wearing Masks and watching the pandemic body cant write because the ccp failed in his promise to the wilbur were reading every morning new headlines of repression in hong kong and in xinjiang. We are seeing statistic of chinese trade abuses the cost american jobs and strike in those close to the economys all across america including here in Southern California and we are watching a Chinese Military that grows stronger and stronger and indeed more menacing. Ill echo the questions bring in hearts and minds of americans from here in california to my home state of kansas and beyond. What do the American People have to show now 50 years on from engagement with china . Did the theories of our leaders that propose a chinese evolution towards freedom and democracy proved to be true . Is this chinas definition of a winwin situation . And indeed centrally, from the secretary of state perspective, is america safer . Do we have a greater likelihood of these for ourselves and peace for the generations which will follow wes . Look, we have to admit a hard truth. We must admit a hard truth that should guide us in years and decades to come that if we want to have a free 21st century, and not the chinese century of which xi jinping dreams, the old paradigm of blind engagement with china simply will not get it done. We must not continue with and we must not return to it. As President Trump has made very clear, we need a strategy that protects the American Economy and indeed our way of life. The free world must triumph over this new tyranny. Now, before i seem too eager o tear down president nixons legacy, i want to be clear that he did what he believed was best for the American People at the time, and he may well have been right. He was a brilliant student of china, a fierce cold warrior, at a tremendous admirer of the chinese people, just as i think we all are. He deserves enormous credit for realizing that china was too important to be ignored, even when the nation was weakened because of its own selfinflicted timeliness brutality. In 1967 and a very famous for affairs article, nixon explained his future strategy. Heres what he said. He said taking the long view, we simply cannot afford to leave china forever outside of the family of nations. The world cannot be safe until china changes. Thus, our aim, to the extent we can, we must influence events. Our goal should be to induce change. And i think thats the key phrase from the entire article, to induce change. So with that historic trip to beijing, president nixon kicked off our engagement strategy. He nobly sought a freer and safer world, and held that the Chinese Communist party would return that commitment. As time went on, american policymakers increasingly present address china became more prosperous it would open up, he would become free at home and indeed present list of the threat abroad. It would be friendlier. It all seemed i am sure so inevitable, but that age of inevitability is over. They can engagement with interesting is not brought the kind of change inside a china that president nixon had hoped to induce. The truth is that our policies and those of other free nations resurrected chinas failing economy only to see beijing bite the International Hands that were feeding it. We opened our arms to chinese citizens only to see the Chinese Communist party export are free and open society. China sent propagandists into our press conferences, our research centers, our high schools, our colleges and even into our pta meetings. We marginalize our friends in taiwan which later blossomed into a vigorous democracy. We gave the Chinese Communist party and the regime itself special economic treatment, only to see the ccp insist on silence over its human rights abuses as the price of admission for western companies entering china. Ambassador obrien kicked off a few examples just the other day. Marriott, american airlines, delta, united all removed references to taiwan on their Corporate Website so as not to aggravation. In hollywood not too far from here, the epicenter of american greed freedom, and selfappointed arbiters of social justice, self centers even the most mildly unfavorable reference to china. This corporate acquiescence to the ccp happens all over the world, too. And how is this corporate frailty worked . Is its flattery rewarded . Give you a quote from the speech that general barr gave, attorney general barr. In a speech last week you said that the ultimate ambition of chinas rulers isnt to trade with the United States. It is to raid the United States. China ripped off our price intellectual property and trade secrets, causing millions of jobs all across america. It sucked supply chains with from america and then added a widget made of slave labor. It made the world key waterways must say for international commerce. President nixon once said he feared he had created a frankenstein by opening the world to the ccp, and here we are. The cold war. Or hoodwinked by beijings stock of a peaceful rise. China is increasingly more aggressive. Donald trump has said enough. I dont think many people on either side of the aisle dispute that but even now some insist we preserve the model of dialogue for dialogues sake. We will keep talking but the conversations are different these days. I travel to honolulu a few weeks back, it was the same old story. Plenty of words but literally no offer to change any of the behaviors. Promises like so many were empty. His expectations i summarize caved to their demands because this is what too many prior administrations have done. I didnt and donald trump wont either. We have to keep in mind the ccp regime is a marxist leninist regime. Xi jinping believes in the bankrupt totalitarian theology, it forms his decadelong desire for global hegemony of chinese we cannot ignore the differences between our country is just as the ccp has never ignored them. My experience in the House Intelligence Committee and two plus years led me to this understanding the only way to truly change communist china is not to act on the basis of how they behave. You can see american policy responding to this conclusion. President reagan use the basis of trust but verify. When it comes to the ccp we must distrust and verify. We the freedom loving nations of the world must induce china to change just as president nixon wanted, be more creative and assertive because beijings actions threaten our people and prosperity. Start by changing how we proceed, we have to tell the truth. We cant treat this incarnation of china as a normal country like any other. It is not like trading with normal lawabiding nation. Beijing threatens agreements as suggestions, conduits for global dominance. As our trade representative did when he secured the deal, the policies that have harmed american workers. We know too that doing business with the ccp backed company is not the same as doing business with the canadian company. Many boards are statesponsored and have no need to pursue profit. A good example is huawei, stop pretending it is an innocent Telecommunications Company just showing up to talk to your friends. We called it what it is, a true National Security threat and have taken action accordingly. If Companies Invest in sino they may wittingly or unwittingly support gross human rights violations, the department of treasury and commerce sanctioned blacklisted chinese leaders and entities that are harming and abusing the most basic rights for people across the world. Several agencies have worked to make sure our ceos are informed for how supply chains are behaving inside china. We know all Chinese Students and employees are normal students and workers to make a little money and garner themselves some knowledge, too many of them come here to steal our intellectual property and take this back, we know the Peoples Liberation army is not a normal army but the absolute rule, to expand the chinese empire. The department of defense ramps up freedom of navigation operations through the east and South China Seas and the Taiwan Strait as well. We created a space forced to deter china from aggression on the final frontier. So too we built a new set of policies at the state department dealing with china, pushing Donald Trumps goals for fairness and reciprocity. To rewrite the imbalance that has grown over decades. We announce the closure of the chinese consulate in houston because of intellectual property theft. We reversed two weeks ago eight years of cheap turning with respect to International Law in the South China Sea. We call on china to strategic realities of our time. The state department at every level across the world engaged with chinese counterparts, simply demand fairness and reciprocity but our approach cant just be about getting tough. That cant achieve the outcome we desire. We must also engage the chinese people, dynamic freedom loving people who are distinct from the Chinese Communist party. It begins with in person diplomacy. I have met chinese men and women of great talents wherever i go. To escape concentration camps, talks with hong kong democracy two days ago in london i met with nathan law in my office i heard the stories of Tiananmen Square survivors. One of them is here today, a key student who never stopped fighting for freedom for the chinese people, please stand so we may recognize you. Also with us is the father of the chinese democracy movement, spent decades in advocacy. Please stand. [applause] i grew up and serve my time in the army during the cold war. Communists always lie. The biggest lie they tell is that they speak for 1. 4 billion people who are scared to speak out. The ccp fears, the honest opinions more than any folk and for losing their own grip on power they have no reason to. Think how much better off the world will be not to mention the people in china. If we heard from the doctors in wuhan and they raise the alarm about the outbreak of the new coronavirus, they ignored the down play of the nature of the regime, we cant ignore it any longer. They know we cannot go back to the status quo but changing the ccps be his here, it is the furthest thing from easy. I have faith we can do it. They are repeating the same mistake the soviet union makes, alienating potential allies, ranking trust at home and abroad, predictable of law. I have faith because they cant go back to the past the same way we do here in america. From brussels, to sydney, to hanoi and most of all we can defend freedom, the sweet appeal of freedom itself. Look at the hong kong curse planning to immigrate on that proud city. And wave american flags. There are differences unlike the soviet union, chinese integrated in the global economy. Beijing is more dependent on us that we are on them. I reject the notion we are living in an age of inevitability, that some trap is preordained, that ccp supremacy is the future. Our approach isnt destined to fail because america is in decline. As i said in munich earlier this year the free world is still winning, just needs to believe it, to know it and be proud of it. People from all over the world want to come to open societies, they come here to study, to work, to build a life for their families. They are not desperate to settle in china. It is time immigrate to be here today. The timing is perfect, time for free nations to act, not every nation will approach china the same way nor should they. Every nation will need to come to its own understanding of how to protect its own sovereignty, how to protect its own Economic Prosperity and how to protect its ideals for the tentacles of the Chinese Communist party but i call on every leader of every nation to do what america has done, to simply insist on reciprocity, to insist on accountability. The Chinese Communist party, those who are full of homogenous, and these standards will achieve a great deal. We let the ccp said terms of engagement, to the same principles. And this is what the United States did recently when we rejected the claims in the South China Sea once and for all as we urge countries to become clean countries, private information doesnt end up in the hands of the Chinese Communist party, did it by centering standards. It is difficult for some small countries, they figure they are being picked off, dont have the ability or courage to stand with us for the moment. We have a nato ally of ours, with respect to hong kong and beijing will restrict access to chinas market. This is the kind of committee that will lead to historic failure and we cannot repeat it, cannot repeat the mistakes of the past years. The challenge of china demands insertion, energy from democracies, those in africa and south america and the indo pacific region. If we dont act now the ccp will be road our freedom and subvert the rulesbased order that our societies have worked so hard to build. If we bend the knee now, our childrens children may be at the mercy of the Chinese Communist party, actions the primary challenge today in the free world. Secretary xi inside and outside forever unless we allow it. This isnt about containment, dont buy that. It is a complex new challenge we never faced before. The ussr is closed off from the free world, communist china is always within our borders. We cant face this challenge alone, the united nations, nato, the g 20, combined economic diplomatic and military power is surely enough to meet this challenge if we direct it clearly and with great courage. Maybe it is time for a new grouping of likeminded nations, a new ally to have democracies. We have the tools, we know we can do it and we have the will, to quote scripture i ask is our spirit willing . If the free world doesnt change, communist china will surely change us. Cant return to past practices because they are comfortable or convenient. Securing our freedom from the Chinese Communist party is the mission of our time and america is positioned to lead it because our founding principles give us that opportunity. As i explained in philadelphia last week, staring at Independence Hall our nation was founded on the premise of all human beings possess certain rights that are inalienable in the governments job to secure those rights. A simple and powerful truth. People inside china, Richard Nixon was right when he wrote that the world cannot be safe until china changes. Now it is up to us to heed his words. The danger is clear and the awakening is happening, free world must respond. We can never go back to the past. May god bless each of you, may god bless the people of the United States of america. [applause] thank you, mister secretary. Please be seated. I am at the president ial library and mike pompeo graciously invited some questions as i was listening. Thank you for joining us at the Nixon Library. My question has to do with the president ial visit in 1972. You mentioned the soviet union was isolated but dangerous. He went to the peoples republic of china in 1972 to try to combine interests with them against the soviet union. It was successful. Does russia present an opportunity to the United States to coax them into the battle to be relentlessly candid . I think theres that opportunity. That opportunity is born of the natural relationship between russia and china and we can do something as well. Places we need to work with russia today, tomorrow, the russians working on a Strategic Dialogue to create the next generation of arms control agreements like reagan did. It is our interest, russias interests, they declined to participate and we changed their mind. These kind of things, these proliferation issues that if we work alongside russia we can make the world safer. There is a place for us to work with the russians to achieve a more likely outcome of peace not only for the United States but the world. Nixon put a lot of story in personal relationships over many years with individuals. That can be wrong. President bush misjudged Vladimir Putin and said so afterwords, you met president xi often. Is the general secretary of the Chinese Communist party someone with whom we can deal on a based on your personal diplomacy . They have been good, frank conversations, hes the most powerful leader of china since now, he has the institutionalized the Chinese Communist party, thus giving more capacity and power but the way to think about it is the way i spoke about this today, it is about action. I wont evaluate ones counterpart sitting across from them, think about how you can find common understanding and progress but in the end it is not what someone says or the agreement they signed but are they prepared to do the things they committed to . Are they prepared to fulfill their promises . We watched china walk away from the promises on hong kong, xi promised president obama in the rose garden that he wouldnt militarize the South China Sea. From my perspective, what it is to talk to them on the phone. This is not containment. From ambassador obrien, listen to you closely. It is a comprehensive multidimensional relentlessly objective candor. Is a dangerous in a world that is not used to speaking clearly about delicate subjects. Donald trumps experience is the best policy is always, true candor. Identify places you have a red line or real interests, things you can work on, the real danger comes from misunderstanding and the failure about the things that matter to you and others move into that space. The world is a lot safer when you have leaders to be honest and talk about the things their nation is prepared to do to secure those interests and you can reduce risk by these conversations as long as you are honest about it. It is the opposite of that. The speech will be known as the trust but verify speech. When you distrust but verify it promises verification and it is possible to do agreement and verify them. You can still do it. Theres a lot of intrusiveness connected to that in the nature of communist regimes, it has been done before, arms control agreements and verification that is sufficient to protect american interests. We cant do this to the Chinese Communist party has 700 nuclear warheads. This is a serious global power and to the extent we can find Common Ground to reduce risk, we ought to do it and require agreement and verification. The chairman of the council on Foreign Relations said very recently, may have been yesterday or this morning, quote, mike pompeo doesnt speak of china but the Chinese Communist party, as if there was a china apart from the party. Quite a stands for a chief diplomat to take unless his goal is to make sure diplomacy fails. Is that your goal . Where to begin . It is a bit patronizing to make such an assertion. They are not rational people who were given they too were made in the image of god and have all the capacity anybody in the world does. That we are to ignore the voices of the people of china seems the wrong approach. The Chinese Communist party is one party rule so we will deal with the Chinese Communist party is head of state or china and we need to engage in dialogue but it seems we would dishonor ourselves. You put heavy emphasis on the ideology of marxist leninism. To hear that conversation again, the American Media need to reacquaint itself because the ccp genuinely does believe it . I always get trouble with your when i comment on the media. I will say this much. For those of us who have lived and observed other marxistleninist nations and have seen an understanding of how people interact in society out to interact, the leadership of china believes we should acknowledge that. We should make sure we dont for a moment think they dont believe it. That is what ambassador ryans speech was about. We have to respond in a way that reflects our understanding of the way they view the world. Lets talk about the Chinese Media, they are aggressively defending ticktock. A small question within a large question. Is ticktock capable of being weapon eyes to . Is that what is going on . And Chinese Media has become far more aggressive than i have seen in 30 years of watching, is that something you have noticed . They are very aggressive. Two pieces to this. When you hit upon. When i describe as their technology medium. Without singling out any particular business our view of these companies, neither for or against the company or making sure we protect the information that belongs to each of you. Your health records, facial recognition software, your address, all the things you want to make sure the chinese commonest party doesnt have we have a responsibility to make sure the systems you are using dont give them access to that, work on other software firms, the American Task is to protect the American People and their information. The second piece of this has to do with what i call statesponsored media of china and their disinformation. I am concerned about the American Media too, these are statesponsored media organizations that take the messaging from the Chinese Communist party every day. When american institutions pick up those storylines and carry them forward they are propagating chinese propaganda and we should be wise to that. There was an editorial in the New York Times yesterday by someone with a clear view that was antithetical to the american way of life, the New York Times ran it without comment, in the opinion section propagating chinese propaganda. It is not instructive when saying they cant simply talk about American Freedom in the same media outlet. A lot of corporate america, specifically hollywood have gotten deep intertwined with the chinese economy. I dont want to talk about soft power but soft appeasement. One of my favorite sports figures, lebron james falls silent when china comes up. In the new top gun movie the taiwan in japanese patches are taken off the mavericks jacket. What do you say not to those individuals but to everyone who has a spotlight about the responsibility to be candid about the peoples republic of china . Here is our ask. If you claim you care about human rights, if you make that part of the corporate theology you ought to be consistent if you are operating in china if you are not talking about acknowledging what the Chinese Communist party is doing in certain parts of their country, every Business Leader has to make decisions for themselves, got to live with the decisions they make, you highlighted a few. I simply ask this. If you run an entity of the United States government told you you couldnt do something, put a particular symbol in your movie or a particular name on your menu. If we were to tell you that you would say thats not appropriate and it would not be appropriate. It seems to me if you permit the chinese commonest party to limit you in that way has got to be difficult for you to go home at night. [applause] another question mister secretary because it is hot and warm and everyone has been in the sun for a while. You are a west point graduate so this might be tough for you but we are like athens was, a naval power, do we not have to change how we approach defense spending to put more emphasis on naval resources than Army Resources . That is tough for an army guy to say, killing me. I believe to secretary esther the details but when donald trump set out our National SecurityStrategy Early on in the administration we identified china in a way that wasnt mentally different than we had done for decades. That was important because that was the signal that we need to reorient our assets. Youve seen the department of defense do that. These budgets are multiyear, takes a wild. If you look at secretary esther as per, not just technical strategic possibilities with fiber capabilities, space capability. If you look at how we are thinking about this and spending resources you will see our focus has shifted dramatically, not a efforts to protect america from terrorism are behind us, we still have work to do but this great power challenge that presents itself is something we recognize and begin to make sure we locate your money, our taxpayer resources to the appropriate end. Last question has to do with a former secretary of state, George Marshall gave a speech in 1947 at harvard in which he called on all the nations of the world to recognize the world was in crisis and to choose a side and he assured them in that famous address that if you chose you could count on america. Not just to europe where it is relatively easy to be outspoken but to taiwan and japan and vietnam and all the nations of that region can they rely on america in the way people opposing the soviet union can rely on George Marshalls assurance. Undoubtedly. The only thing i will say, this language of pick a side does make sense to me but i think about picking aside differently than picking americorps picking china. I think the division, shirts and skins, is between freedom and tyranny. That is the decision we are asking each of these nations to make. The good news is it does take american leadership. They need to know america will be there for them. Ive seen the tide turn, watched other nations have less timidity become more prepared to stand up for their freedom and the freedoms of their people. We ask them to do this for their country and their nation, fr