Good morning. This hearing will now come to order. I am pleased to welcome our distinguished panels of Witnesses Today on the economic subcommittee focusing on a very important topic and i think theres a lot of bipartisan interest in and that is the economic geostrategic challenge with the rise of china poses for the United States not just today but in the future. The calmness party led peoples republic of china through unfair treatment practices and intellectual property theft market manipulation and very prominently in my view not reciprocal treatment not just in the economic realm but in many realms has been a force in the Global Economy that undercuts the resiliency of the u. S. Economy. Its been one of the worlds fastestgrowing economies averaging close to 10 growth from 1979 to 2015. In 2014 china overtook the United States as the Worlds Largest country in reducing power according to the International Monetary fund. I believe there is a strong bipartisan interest and hopefully we
This hearing will look at a range of violent antigovernment actors, movements, and organizations, highlighting recent threats from militia extremists and accelerationists, including the Boogaloo Movement, who seek to accelerate society toward violent collapse. Anything that is threatening institutions, we also look at it. That is what we are doing today. It is incredibly irrelevant to me which groups we look at so long that we are looking at the principal ones that threaten peoples lives. Some of these Extremist Movements stream from ideologies that are decades old. Others are both having new. Others are relatively new. These threats range from decentralized and leaderless accelerationist networks to more structured militia groups. Antigovernment extremism is one of the Common Threads, but we often see overlap with antiimmigrant, antisemitic, antiblack, antimuslim ideologies as well, bringing these extremists into common cause with others who are extremist in nature. We have an opportu
This hearing will look at a range of violent antigovernment this aint about politics here. This is something that happens on the political spectrum that involves violence, threatening institutions, and we have got to look at it, and that is what we are doing today. So these threats range from decentralized and leaderless it is incredibly irrelevant to me which groups we look at so long that we are looking at the principal ones that threaten peoples lives. Some of these extremist movements stream from ideologies that are decades old. Others are relatively new. These threats range from decentralized and leaderless accelerationist networks to more structured militia groups. Antigovernment extremism is one of the Common Threads, but we often see overlap with antiimmigrant, antisemitic, antiblack, antimuslim ideologies as well, bringing these extremists into common cause with others who are extremist in nature. We have an opportunity to discuss the current Threat Landscape from these moveme
Recent threats from militia extremists and accelerationists, including the Boogaloo Movement, who seek to accelerate society toward violent collapse. Anything that is threatening institutions, we also look at it. That is what we are doing today. It is incredibly irrelevant to me which groups we look at so long that we are looking at the principal ones that threaten peoples lives. Some of these Extremist Movements stream from ideologies that are decades old. Others are both having new. Others are relatively new. These threats range from decentralized and leaderless accelerationist networks to more structured militia groups. Antigovernment extremism is one of the Common Threads, but we often see overlap with antiimmigrant, antisemitic, antiblack, antimuslim ideologies as well, bringing these extremists into common cause with others who are extremist in nature. We have an opportunity to discuss the current Threat Landscape from these movements so we can develop an understanding of how the
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