"We must admit our truth that should guide us in the years and decades to come, that if we want to have a free 21st century, and not the Chinese century of which Xi Jinping dreams, the old paradigm of blind engagement with China simply won't get it done," he said. "We must not continue it and we must not return to it."
He appeared to cast the US-China competition as a modern day Cold War, saying that "securing our freedoms from the Chinese Communist Party is the mission of our time and America is perfectly positioned to lead it."
