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We need to greatly enhance our ability to conduct war directly against China including pre-positioning tons of material, armaments, weapons, so forth.

We are asking for some $30 billion to invest in munitions.

We do... we have a challenge is on the production end.

One of the concerns that we have going back some years is that Beijing no longer seems to accept the status quo in Taiwan.

The policy that administration after administration has pursued over 5 decades... has done very well.

I think country-after-country around the world is increasingly making clear to Beijing that that would have catastrophic consequences for everyone.

It is important because as we have all talked about today, we are engaged in an intense competition with China across many areas.

We are determined to do that.

These Island Nations in the North Pacific are--basically what stands between us and the further reaches of the Pacific.

Not being a part of that is a self-inflicted wound.

Making sure that we are able to get in the hands of people, organizations around the world, the tools that we have.

We are communicating, every single engagement... this is at the top of the agenda.

We have seen far more people dedicated to trying to interdict the fentanyl, to break up the labs, et cetera.

This is the number one killer of Americans aged 18 to 49.

I could not agree with you more on the imperative of this challenge.

Last year, we seized enough fentanyl to kill every single American.

The rest of the world needs to see economic benefits by being aligned.

Not only China, but we will see other bad actors around the world try to do the same.