Mike Garcia: “The Chinese Communist regime under Chairman Xi is certainly our greatest opponent. His vision and mission is to…”

“The Chinese Communist regime under Chairman Xi is certainly our greatest opponent. His vision and mission is to eliminate the United States by 2050, and his investments are aimed toward this end. The CCP is not on our team, and we should not encourage competition from China, as the White House has stated. In many domains, they are outpacing us. In lower altitude hypersonic weapons development; in the advancement and proliferation of high-altitude nuclear ICBMs, such as the DF-41; in the space domain; in the cyber domain; in shipbuilding--they are currently building two ships per month; in the construction and networking of UAVs, or unmanned aerial vehicles; and in the advancement of low observable fighter jets both in terms of capacity as well as quantity, China certainly is our greatest threat. They are not on our team, and their progress and their advantages are designed to be used against us in a coordinated fashion in all of those domains. But the single biggest threat to our Nation is not China alone. It is our own weaknesses within--weaknesses from people who are supposed to be on our team and weaknesses from those who seek to cooperate and profit from the CCP's behavior that ultimately enables the CCP in their atrocities. Those who may chastise the CCP with Twitter posts in the same day enable them with joint ventures, small words compared to large supporting investments or bills such as the ones brought to the floor this week.…”