research and development environment that we have, which we all revere. but they're taking advantage of it, so one thing we're trying to do is view the china threat as not just a whole of government threat, but a whole of society threat on their end and i think it will take a whole of society response by us. it is not just the intelligence community, but it is raising awareness within our academic sector, within our private sector as part of the defense. >> in that vain, last week i wrote a letter to five higher education institutions in florida about the confucius institutes, funded by china, chinese government dollars at u.s. schools and it is my view they're complicit in these efforts to covertly influence public opinion and to teach half truths designed to present chinese history, government or official policy in the most favorable light. do you share concerns about confucius institutes as a tool of that whole of society effort and as a way to exploit the sort of naive view among some in the academic circles about what the purpose of these institutes