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With nearly three-and-a-half million Muslims in the United States, and just over 320,000 Muslims in New Jersey alone, our Muslim communities have waited far too long for better representation in our democracy.

Finally, Secretary Ratner, in March 2022 the Solomon Islands and China signed a security agreement ostensibly aiming in part to address, quote, ``internal threats'' including protecting Chinese owned businesses in the country.

Thank you for your testimony.

So is it also fair to say that since China is the economic force within that region that we are challenged in terms of our own national interests in meeting that economic force with one that can compete with it?