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Well, it's a great point.
Our goal is to bring clarity and bring this to light.
And so, for instance, when JPMorgan Chase and the Bank of America funded the largest IPO of cattle, a Chinese battery manufacturer that's linked with the Chinese Communist Party and supply chains relying on slave labor linked to the Chinese military, you have American investors
investing in a company that actually could be developing technologies that would be used against our men and women in the military.
Same thing with some of these technologies that are used for surveillance and the abuse of the Uyghurs and Tibetans, other people who are threatened by the Chinese Communist Party.
And unfortunately, our taxpayer dollars
Our financial instruments are all being used to advance this interest.
So we've been working on export controls that protect our national security.
We've been trying to highlight the fact that our investor dollars should not be going to fund the Chinese military.
But you're right.
There's an attractive financial motive for people who are in it to make money in the short term and are not considering the long-term consequences of these actions.
I think your point is excellent.
We need to highlight this and make people aware of it.
And that's been probably the biggest challenge because this is such an important issue.
yet often other issues of the day crowded out in terms of urgency.
And so we need to continue to focus on this with a spotlight and raise these issues and help people throughout America understand this.
One thing I wanted to tell you about is recently in Philadelphia, they raised the flag of the Chinese Communist Party
honoring the Chinese National Day, which was the foundation of the Chinese Communist Party.
This is in the city where our Declaration of Independence, endowed by our Creator with inalienable rights to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, our Constitution was developed there.
And when you consider that flag raised over the city hall of this great city, it's the