JD Vance

There's just a whole host of things that being forward focused on technology can bring to this country.

And that is the story.

I think the story of American entrepreneurship and American economic growth is that when we grow through technology and development and productivity, that enters to the benefit of all Americans and makes us more powerful and more wealthy.

When we try to grow our economy, frankly, through importing cheap labor, that I think is a dead end.

We've taken that pathway for far too long in this country.

The Trump administration is going to take a different path.

Yeah, it's got to be a little bit of both.

You know, it's always tough to strike the right balance.

I mean, look, China is our biggest economic competitor in the entire world.

When you look at their technology industry, I think that's the only tech industry, especially when it comes to things like AI, where they're even sort of knocking on the door of America.

Now, I still think that we have the best hardware.

I think that we have the best software.

I still think that we're the most technologically forward economy.

But our edge is not something we can sort of rest on our laurels.

So I think it is useful to look to the Chinese to benchmark our own progress and to say that if we're regulating ourselves to death and allowing the Chinese to catch up to us, that's not something, frankly, we should blame the Chinese for.

That's something we should blame our own leaders for, for having stupid policies that allow other countries to catch up to America.

So it's a useful benchmark, but I still think fundamentally we have to take the attitude of we want the world to be built, I think, on an American technology stack, not on a Chinese or some other country's technology stack.

And if you're too focused on the relative comparison and not focused enough on just building and creating great things, I think that it can become a little bit of a crutch and a little bit

of, I don't know, an impediment to focusing on your own stuff and doing your own thing.

That's why we have a great AI czar here in David Sachs, but we're really focused on how does America just do as well as we possibly can.