Ambassador Robert Blackwill

And I want to say, I don't want to end, we're getting near the end on a negative note, but the one thing I would say, two last things.

America remains the most powerful country on earth, militarily, economically, and diplomatically.

So we have vast instruments to help shape world order to our benefit and to the benefit of our values.

That's number one.

And that will be true at the end of the Trump administration.

But number two is that the trends are against us.

And President Trump, with three more years in office, I do not believe is going to change his view of the world or how he operates.

I believe this is what you see is what you get.

He's believed many of these things.

He's detested the Europeans and their democracies for half a century or more.

He's not going to change.

He's not going to change his attraction to autocratic government and so forth.

So we're powerful, but we are in this very dangerous

next three years of the combination of the growth of Chinese power and a president who does not defend either traditional American national security, vital national interests, or American values?

Thank you very much for having me.