Antony Blinken: “The Taliban is taking steps that are digging an even deeper hole for the people of Afghanistan.”

That is an enormous return on our investment and essential for competing with China around the world.

We see, I think this committee sees, corruption as being one of the most poisonous things that undermines democracies.

We need to keep up this momentum. That requires a State Department budget that we fully resource.

I agree wholeheartedly with the short litany of items that you listed in terms of what China is doing to try to pursue its military, economic, diplomatic, preeminence or dominance in the world and across the board.