Tom Tancredo: “Mr. Speaker, this evening I want to talk about a couple of things that I believe to be the most significant threats this…”

“Mr. Speaker, this evening I want to talk about a couple of things that I believe to be the most significant threats this Nation faces; one is an external threat, and that threat is the People's Republic of China. I characterize that nation as a threat, because of the actions taken by the Chinese, not just in the recent past, by the forcing down of one of our planes, but I suggest that China is a threat to the United States and can be identified as such as a result of analyzing China's history and its most recent actions together. China is a nation with a very long history of aggressive behavior; that behavior is often activated by grievances, both actual grievances and perceived and contrived. It is motivated by a sort of raging nationalism that finds expression in expanding its borders in xenophobia.”