Jeff Fortenberry: “That is our fundamental purpose. That is who we are as Americans.”

China's development strategy, frankly, is this: It is predatory lending, it is resource extraction, and it is payment to authoritarian regimes.

I think it is a critical new architecture for, again, establishing trust and economic well-being with continuity, using the best of the private market system with a little bit of subsidy.

Thank you again for holding the hearing. I thought it was a very thorough, good discussion.

I would like you to just find a pathway to help us get that done.