And we need to confront China by strategic decoupling of key industries, by making changes to outbound investment policy to stop direct investment in technologies that are going to help the Chinese pla. We need to hold China accountable for things like Covid, where we still haven't gotten to the bottom of, of where the virus came from because China hasn't cooperated. And we need to have alliances with Australia, Japan and many others along these different dimensions of technology, data, military capability, intel to make sure that we're taking advantage of that. (40:09–40:18)
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Asserts that China should be held accountable for not cooperating in determining the origins of Covid.
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