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\"QUESTION:<\/strong> I want to move to China, Mr. Secretary, because we\u2019ve seen in recent weeks nothing that\u2019s surprising to you or me, because we\u2019ve been following this issue of Chinese stealing our intellectual property and bribing, attempting to bribe foreign officials, including here at different times in the United States \u2013 business officials, excuse me \u2013 to gain access to technology, critical technology in manufacturing, aviation, and so forth. Now we have this chipmaker ban in place that garnered a lot of attention, and it\u2019s trying to \u2013 I guess we\u2019re trying to target that state-owned chipmaker in China over national security concerns. How is that going to fit in to our overall aggressive stance against this expansive Chinese behemoth?<\/p>\n SECRETARY POMPEO:<\/strong> Laura, China is probably, over the long term, the biggest challenge, national security challenge that faces our country. You saw the indictments of 10 Chinese persons for the alleged theft of intellectual property, aviation-related intellectual property. This is a story that\u2019s been going on for years. This is the first administration that has been prepared to push back against China, and we\u2019re doing so on all fronts. So where the semiconductor piece fits in is it\u2019s part of a mosaic of our strategic effort to push back against this continued Chinese effort. It begins with trade. We want, the President has demanded fair and reciprocal trade with China. We\u2019ve demanded that they not steal our intellectual property. We talk with some frequency about the enormous violation of religious freedom that\u2019s taking place against the Uighurs in China. We\u2019re very worried that China will put the people in many countries around the world, in Africa and Central America and Latin America, in a debt trap that will cause those countries decades of pain.<\/p>\n It is a multipronged effort on behalf of all of the United States Government, at the President\u2019s direction, to convince China to behave like a normal nation on commerce and with respect to the rules of international law.<\/p>\n QUESTION:<\/strong> Yeah. I mean, I know you have to go, Mr. Secretary, but just so people understand this. Our trade policy with China has had a real effect inside China. They already have structural weaknesses within China at large, but they had the weakest manufacturing growth in more than two years in China, and the yuan has slid, manufacturing stalled, and their ambitions as a result have been affected. But they\u2019re still lofty, and we do finally have an administration who\u2019s seeing this with eyes wide open.\"<\/p>",
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