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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