Antony Blinken: “This budget will also strengthen our efforts to outcompete the PRC.”

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

The People's Republic of China is pursuing military, economic, and geopolitical preeminence, challenging our vision for a free, open, secure, and prosperous international order.

We have managed to move to a better trajectory politically to get back to a clearly mandated democratic government.

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