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
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Hospital the other day, i have the mask right here, i carry it. I will use i had gladly, no problem with it. I said. That i say if you can use the mask, when you can, use the mask reporter and President Donald Trump sending treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and his chief of staff to the hill today, with a starting point for cares four of one trillion dollars. The hour long meeting with republicans those there say the administration now may be open to giving 25 billion for states for testing. Republicans also want payroll tax relief. 105 billion to reopen schools safely, business Liability Protections and incentives for going back to work. The american job market needs another shot of adrenaline. Senate republicans are laser focused on getting American Workers their jobs back. Reporter mnuchin also met with Senate Majority leader, Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer as well as nancy pelosi while he was up on capitol hill. Both of them criticized the administration that they came to them
Www. Health. Senate. Gov is our website. I think it makes it possible for us to be table to attract witnesses who have very busy schedules on the same day such as today. Some senators are participating by videoconference. Senators may remove their masks since were 6 feet apart. Im grateful to the rules committee, the sarge want at arms, the press gallery, the capitol police, our Committee Staff for all their hard work to help keep us safe. Senator murray and i will each have an opening statement, and then well turn to our witnesses who we thank very much for being with us today. Each witness we would ask that you summarize your remarks in five minutes, which will allow more time for the large number of senators who we expect to participate to present their testimony. Well have one round of questions for a five minute round. Less than four months ago on march 1st the coronavirus situation was about this. At the end of february there were 79,000 cases around the world, only 14 in the Uni