JD Vance

Yes, we want to stay ahead of China, but we want to stay ahead of everybody else because this is America and we want it to stay the greatest country in the world.

Yeah, so as the president said, it's a bit of a balance, right?

There are certain critical elements of our technology stack.

There are certain critical technologies.

We know that some Chinese firms engage in IP theft, so we don't want to give them our very best stuff because we're worried a little bit that they might steal it.

But of course, there are certain industries that we want to sell into China.

We actually want to broaden American workers' access to the world.

And part of our frustration with China is on the one hand, they steal some of our newest technology.

And on the other hand, they don't let American-made products into their country.

What we want to do is actually reverse that.

We want to sell American-made products into China, but we don't want to allow them to steal our critical intellectual property.

And we have to strike that balance in a much better way.

And not just the Biden administration, but better than the

the Obama administration and the Bush administration did too.

But striking that balance is something I think the president's very focused on.

I'm certainly very focused on.

And we've now got a much better approach now than we have in a long time in this country.

Yeah, it's a very interesting question and I don't want to predict the future too much here.

It's always a fraught business, especially in politics.

You know, one of the things that's interesting, a foreign leader came to me relatively recently, this is actually last week, small country but very important country strategically, very good ally of the United States, and basically pitched me on creating a NATO alternative outside of Europe