while today we are told that the world domination of China is inevitable, 25 years ago, when I was just beginning to run for Congress, I could find 12 books that told me that Japan would be dominating the world right about now.

I want more. I want disclose the bad deal, borrow more in a second bad deal, borrow more in a third bad deal, and then renounce all the debt.

We do not engage in debt trap financing. When a U.S. Government entity makes a loan, it is with the expectation that the loan is affordable, can be repaid, and can be repaid normally out of the project's revenues.

The trade deficit we have with China is the largest trade deficit in the history of mammalian life.

If the gentleman would yield, I will point out that there is a significant territorial dispute between India and China, and in the 1960's, there was more than one armed conflict over that.

Well, yes. I mean, not that we would build another harbor for them for free, but they would be no worse off for wear.

It would serve them right, by the way.

My record is not one of unwavering support for the current occupant of the White House, but I want to commend the President for at least focusing our attention on China's unfair trade practices and the horrific results to the United States.

Fine. Borrow the first, then borrow the second, then borrow the third. Raise your debt to $10-, $20 trillion, and then renounce it all, and then still have complete access to all the Western financial institutions. Sounds like a plan.

We have done nothing to accomplish that goal with the executive branch making the decisions.

Should we support selling Soviet reactors or Russian reactors to Saudi Arabia?

I would hope each of us, for the record, would answer the question, will we for our own campaigns, for organizations that we support, insist that campaigns not make use of materials stolen by hostile adversaries?