Carlos Gimenez actually said...

I think we need to determine, okay, whether our national security, you know, takes precedence.

I think it is emerging, though, and I can see in the future that they will probably--they could be a much more serious adversary.

The Soviet Union, and now Russia, they have had like a first-class military, but it was a third-class economic power.

China will have a much greater capacity to wage a much more effective conventional war against the United States than, say, Russia.