Jeff Fortenberry: “I want to emphasize something that Congressman Frelinghuysen said.”

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

No, other than again to thank you, Mr. Chairman, for your leadership. I think it has been a productive hearing to unpack this significant portion of America's public policy of both expenditures but also impact.

I believe this is inconsistent with sound diplomacy. It is a projection of our own ideological divisions on the poor throughout the world.

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