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“There’s nothing that prevents the People’s Republic of China from cracking down on fentanyl precursors,” @CIADirector John Ratcliffe tells @SenTomCotton.

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DNI TULSI GABBARD: “The IC assesses that China is our most capable strategic competitor. Under the leadership of President Xi Jinping, the People’s Republic of China seeks to position itself as a leading power on the world stage—economically, technologically, and militarily.”

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SENATOR TOM COTTON: Communist China is actively working to replace the United States as the world’s dominant superpower. China uses coercive military, economic, and influence operations to shape a world favorable to its interests and hostile to ours.

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.@SecRubio on the @MegynKellyShow: “If the government in China in a conflict tells them to shut down the Panama Canal, they will have to. And in fact, I have zero doubt that they have contingency planning to do so. That is a direct threat.”

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White House @PressSec Karoline Leavitt: “The President will be implementing tomorrow: 25% tariffs on Mexico, 25% tariffs on Canada, and a 10% tariff on China for the illegal fentanyl that they have sourced and allowed to distribute into our country.”

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.@PressSec Karoline Leavitt: Several years ago when President Trump would take to this podium to brief the American people on COVID-19, he suggested that COVID very well may have came from a lab in Wuhan, China… We now know that to be the confirmable truth.

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Kash Patel tells @SenTedCruz that one focus of the FBI going forward should be “the CCP espionage rings in this country, which dovetail with the foreign terrorist organization activity.”

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“Some of your past statements that are relevant to China are concerning, because I don’t think it fully appreciates China’s perspective toward the United States, for example with regard to TikTok.”

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand questions Tulsi Gabbard at a Senate Intelligence hearing:

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.@SenJohnCurtis: We’ve talked a lot about this Chinese model [#DeepSeek] that’s been developed for artificial intelligence, and supposedly it’s been done cheaper and better than the United States.

@HowardLutnick: Well, it’s easy to be cheaper if you steal it.

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HOWARD LUTNICK: I take a very jaundiced view of China. I think they only care about themselves and seek to harm us. And so we need to protect ourselves, we need to drive our innovation, and we need to stop helping them.

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White House @PressSec Karoline Leavitt on Donald Trump’s proposed 10% tariff on China: “The President has said that he is very much still considering that for February 1st.”

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White House @PressSec Karoline Leavitt on China’s #DeepSeek: “The President said that he believes that this is a wakeup call to the American AI industry… President Trump believes in restoring American AI dominance.”

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.@SenDanSullivan: Let’s assume the PRC invaded Taiwan and we were surging our navy to the Indo-Pacific. Are the companies controlling both sides of the Panama Canal subject to the PRC’s national security laws?

@EVKontorovich: They’re subject to those laws all the time.

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.@SenatorCantwell: “I am concerned about Chinese-owned ports in Panama and their proximity to the Canal. I’m also deeply concerned about the installation of Chinese equipment from Huawei and Chinese companies near the Canal.”

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Senator @TedCruz highlights “the danger of China exploiting or blocking passage through the [Panama] Canal,” which he says “poses acute risks to U.S. national security.”

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NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte: “This is not a conflict between Russia and Ukraine or Russia and Europe. It is really a geopolitical issue because of North Korea, China, and Iran.”

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Sen. @ChuckGrassley: China abruptly ended its inter-country adoption program without even clarifying what that would mean for the families already matched with their child… I hope President Trump and the incoming administration see that these matched adoption cases be completed.

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Senator @TedCruz: “If ByteDance refuses to sell [TikTok], it tells you it’s the Chinese communist government… Ordinary businesses don’t decide to go bankrupt and shut down rather than take billions of dollars.”

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.@SecRubio spoke with Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique A. Manalo about “the PRC’s dangerous and destabilizing actions in the South China Sea.”

Rubio “conveyed that the PRC’s behavior undermines regional peace and stability and is inconsistent with international law.”

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Russ Vought tells @SenatorRicketts that he will make it “a priority” to ensure taxpayer dollars aren’t used to fund the Chinese Communist Party and other adversaries.