China's in a different category where I don't think we should put ourselves in a position to rely on China for anything that is critical to our national security. Take our own military. It's crazy. The following is crazy fact. The number one supplier to our Department of Defense of semiconductors is actually China. Our own military industrial base cannot exist without a Chinese dependent supply chain. That doesn't make any sense because the whole reason you have a military industrial base is to potentially protect yourself against an adversary. (48:46–48:51)
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