Threat it imposes to the United States. Held at the conservative conference in National Harbor maryland which is right outside of washington, d. C. The United States and china are involved in a cold tech war. The winner dominates the 21st century. A decade ago, beijing was not considered a tech contender, but now it is a leader. The United States is behind in critical areas. Today we will talk about big data, ai, 5 g and chinas big challenge to the world. Congressman rogers, many people say that there needs to be a whole society mobilization on tech. The question is, is it that serious . Do we need to do this . We absolutely need to win the future and winning the future future means winning this race. This race with china right now, we need to approach at the same white Ronald Reagan did when we beat the ussr. Free market and with a Strong National defense. It is all related. You have to be a military power. You have to be an economic power. Winning this race is critical to our future
And International Studies this is about one hour. [inaudible conversations] welcome back. Cliff, happy birthday. You are welcome. It is all for you. I really am delighted to welcome general joseph votel for our keynote address today. He currently serves as ceo and president of Business Executives for National Security and he joined their in january 2020 following 89 years of distinguished military service and served for three years as commander of u. S. Central command and prior to serving as commander of Central Command he commanded the u. S. Special Operations Command and the joint special Operations Command and in addition to his current role at the visit executive Financial Security hes also a distinguished senior fellow National Security at the middle east institute and unwelcome credit [inaudible] he will talk about a theme that has come up throughout the discussion this morning which we are all aware of but werent exactly sure what to think about and i think in 30 minutes we wil