Lloyd Austin actually said...

DOD and DHS have overlapping equities, and we continuously collaborate, and share information in order to be able to better protect our info...

Here in Alaska, we are where the Indo-Pacific Nation and us, as an Arctic nation, intersect, these two critical regions intersect.

Not only China, but we will see other bad actors around the world try to do the same.

My mandate is to make sure that we continue to deter China on a daily basis.