"I think right now the biggest challenge of what the U.S. is facing in terms of standing up to China is the corporate sector"

“You’ve got corporations that see 1.2 billion people in China and those are many potential consumers for them. China is aware of that market potential. You’re dealing with a communist country and it’s foreign to our approach to governance and business. But our companies made a deal: get access to the sheer volume of people there in exchange for playing by the CCPs rules, whatever those might be. That is a very dangerous position to be in, particularly as the U.S. government is now recognizing them as the single biggest threat the country faces.”

“I said to myself ‘I'm going to own this job. I'm going to make sure that I know this better than all of these guys and they're not gonna be able to push me around”