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Adding this history their life's work. Many of you have made it your life's mission too. That's why you work here in voice of America. We were indeed the first nation found on the central belief that all human beings are endowed with certain unalienable rights and the governments are instituted to secure those God-given rights.

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We've always driven for a more perfect union. And goodness knows we don't always get it, right. Therefore, we need both pride and humility about our past and our present. We need the truth. But it's very clear that when Americans have united around our founding values being in Philadelphia. Gettysburg.

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Seneca Falls or during Martin Luther King's march on Washington. We've made good on our founding promise time and time again. Now, our adversary is trying to claim otherwise. When the Chinese Communist Party attempted to exploit the tragic death of George Floyd to claim their authority and system was somehow superior to ours.

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I used a statement which read in part quote during the best of times the people's Republic of China, ruthlessly imposes communism. But amid the most difficult challenge the United States is secures freedom. There is no moral equivalence. This is a self-evident truth. It is not fake news for you to broadcast that this is the greatest nation in history of the world and the greatest nation the civilization has ever known.

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I'm not saying this to ignore our faults into just the opposite it is to acknowledge them. But this isn't the vice of America focusing on everything that's wrong with our great nation. It's the voice of America. It's certainly isn't the place to give authoritarian regimes in Beijing or Tehran a platform.

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Your mission is to promote democracy freedom and American values all across the world. The US taxpayer funded institution aimed squarely at that is what sets VOA apart from MSNBC in Fox News and the like You can give voice to the voiceless in dark corners of the world. You're the voice of American striving.

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You're the voice of American exceptionalism. You're indeed. The tip of freedom's spear. Now look like many government agencies after the Cold War ended our international broadcasters well a lost their way many of you know this and there were I'm sure many reasons the Soviet Union collapsed the wall had come down.

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Names like bin Laden and Sarkowani or widely known. In fact, many wrote the history was over we allowed security protocols to lapse in very lost its commitment to its founding mission. It's broadcasted become less about telling the truth about America to often about demeaning America. In 2013, one of my predecessors described the broadcasting board of governors as quote practically defunct and of quote.

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Look that's important why Congress created the role of CEO of the USAGM on a bipartisan basis and it is again why I'm here today. I read the severe flame voice didn't want me to speak here today. I'm sure it was only a handful. They didn't want the voice of American diplomacy to be broadcast on the voice of America.

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Think about that for just a moment. Look, we're all part of institutions with duties and responsibilities higher and bigger and more important than any one of us individually. But this kind of sensorial instinct is dangerous. It's morally wrong. Indeed, it's against your statutory mandate here at VOA. Center ship openness political correctness at all points in one direction, authoritarianism cloaked as moral righteousness.

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Similar what we're seeing at Twitter and Facebook and Apple and on too many university campuses today. It's not who we are. It's not who we are as Americans. And it's not where Voice of America should be. It's time that we simply put vocalism to sleep. And you can lead the way.

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You all know that's why you came here. There's a new Dawn here at Voice of America, the American public doesn't know this but when Michael took office some 1500 employees, almost 40% of the workforce. Had been improperly vented including many with high level security clearances. VOA was rubber stamping.

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J-1 visas for four nationals, including some from communist China. We shouldn't be doing that. We have plenty of Mandarin language speakers here in America and we are building growing teaching educating more. Committed patriots some Chinese American descent who are amazing people. Security threats.

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To threaten you and your families simply for doing your jobs, your work takes courage, please keep telling everyone who will listen what's happening in the toughest parts of the world. The world expects it and America will be better off for it. I want to leave you. I will leave you with a quote that conveys why the view always mission is so critical before.

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I take some questions from Bob the quotes from a ways back it's from George Washington, he said quote.

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Stop.

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Yeah.

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This.

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Is capacity to understand the things that were contained in our founding about how human rights are formed. It moved away even from the universal declaration of human rights and what I wanted to do and that was the reground American foreign policy how we thought about human rights and I think the report captures it pretty well.

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Your point about religious freedom and the capacities speak really to to core rights that if nation gets gets it wrong, it will be less the secure it will be less prosperous. It's people will be less. Poll. And so we spent a lot of time talking about those issues around the world.

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We've made progress in certain places other places we've not put it's important that American leaders not only the Secretary of State, but all of us acknowledge those shortcomings when we speak with foreign leaders and get them headed in a better direction for their people. I'm proud of the work we've done in this regard these.

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These principles matter their execution implementation is complex because foreign policy always is there are competing priorities. But American can never walk away from those central principles and understandings and we know the difference between rights respecting countries and those that aren't and we have an obligation to call. Each of them precisely what they are.

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Now as you well know we're at the cusp of the change in administration's. Uncertain foreign policy issues there seems to have formed a bipartisan consensus for instance perhaps. China on both sides of the aisle is seen as the principal challenge to the United States today. Are there others North Korea Venezuela Iran on which of these do you expect some continuity with the new administration and where do you perhaps see what may come as the biggest changes?

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Look at them. It's an important question. Leaders always want to understand that when you make a commitment to them that it will survive. We have elections every two years your federal elections we have presidential elections every four years. Look you're pointing about the threat from the Chinese Communist Party I think is right President Trump rightly identified this when he started campaigning back in 2015 as the singular threat to the centrality of Western thought in the world the idea that we're going to have a rule space system that respected property rights and human dignity.

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China is singular in the threat it poses to those things. And I do think there's a consensus there. I've worked with Democrats on many important. On issues in Hong Kong and issues. I refer to the wiggers and Chong in the atrocities taking place there. So I do hope that stays the same.

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I hope too even in the Middle East even where the previous administration had a different approach with respect to the Islamic Republic of Iran, it's not 2015 what has taken place in the Middle East and these last four years whether that's the efforts we have put to constrain the theocracy the kleptocrats in charge in Iran.

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The work we have done with the Abraham Accords the the work that we've done to recognize the fundamental understandings of Israel's a nation has a right to exist in its capital is in Jerusalem, it is the home of the Jewish people there. Those are things that I believe will be lasting because I think the people of those nations want them to last and I hope that the next administration will continue to build on them in a way that continues to build out peace and prosperity among all the nations in the Middle East.

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I I'm hopeful that that will take place. I noticed over the weekend you signed a joint declaration with four other foreign ministers Australia. UK New Zealand regarding the recent arrests in Hong Kong. You also removed the restraints on high level diplomatic contacts between the United States and Taiwan and apparently the UN US ambassador to the UN will be in Taiwan soon.

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What do you expect to accomplish with this flurry? Yeah Well you know flurry I find funny but no I get it I'm like I wish these things have been no longer time ago these were rushed these were considered efforts that we made in their important part of the strategy that we've laid out with respect to how to protect and preserve American freedoms of ease the challenges that the Chinese Communist.

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Party presents look one of the core problems. I gave some remarks where I talked about China said, no matter what it is, they say we must distrust and verify. And you you referred to the arrest of these some 50 people in Hong Kong the Chinese Communist Party made a promise.

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To the people of Hong Kong and they walked away from it The Chinese Communist Party has a commitment a set of understandings we have with respect to Taiwan. We need to hold the parties accountable to those commitments as well. The chest comes party promised President Obama, they wouldn't arm the islands in the South China Sea and they turned around and did it and there was almost no cost and post.

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We have attempted to deliver a clear understanding of the the requirements that we have for the Chinese Communist. Part how it should behave that aren't frankly very different from what we expect of any nation with respect to how they interact. With the United States and we do that because we have a responsibility preserve and protect security and prosperity for the American people are our policy with respect to the Chinese Congress party has further that and this will be a long challenge the Chinese Communist Party has a clear intent for hegemonic dominance and we have an obligation responsibility to the American people and frankly to freedom loving people around the world to make sure that that is not the world that our children and grandchildren live in.

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It's interesting and meeting with the division directors of voice of America how frequently in those meetings the name of China comes up. When I ask them what's on the horizon, what are you noticing it's China? Latin America China East Africa China and it's not simply the Belton Road initiative it's their information strategy how they get affiliates in those regions of the world how they feed them free stuff.

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And there as you know a whole of government approach now the United States isn't isn't whole of government but voice of America is here to do our part through our bureaus and through our reporting what do you think we can do better to help highlight the dangers these things represent when seen together rather than as a separatist series of branches of this challenge is in fact comprehensive it became our administration began by working on the economic side of this, right?

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The President placed tariffs on Chinese goods he tried to stop intellectual properties have denying tens of millions of jobs in the United States of America because they would steal our information take it back to China build it and then dump it here in the United States it's information you talked about that this is ongoing take the issue of the Wuhan virus it has now.

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I understand that Chinese commerce party has now going to permit the World Health Organization to go in and find out where this all began but it took months and months of effort to do that we are now more than a year on we still don't have. Access to important information about how the virus began it's important for health and safety and to make sure that something like this doesn't come out of China again your team can report these things report these facts, you're point about it being a global phenomenon.

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I have a bureau of a China desk. I have a East Asia Pacific Bureau we have an Indo-Pacific strategy, but every one of my ambassadors and chief submission understands that China presents a challenge in their country wherever they may be in African Latin America in Southeast Asia, for sure.

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And our team on the ground is working to protect American security from the Chinese Congress party in the country that they have been assigned to I hope you reporters no matter where they find themselves if they are in South Africa or in Morocco or wherever they are observes the activities of the Chinese Communist Party inside of their country and how it impacts the people of those countries as well, if I may ask the last question this one more related to Russia.

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The United States seems to be shrinking it's footprint in Africa, so is France Russia is increasing its is is this the result of a judgment on the part of the United States that disorder? On the African continent is less of a problem or less of a threat to our interests or how would you.

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So the forces the disposition that the DOD has made has really been about the counterterrorism fight more broadly. How is it that we allocate US resources to keep the homeland safe. So the decisions the President has made with respect to Afghanistan and the Middle East broadly Syria you talk about North Africa as well has been to allocate the capacity of the United States to preserve and protect the homeland.

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I'm always mindful in it's easy to. Write about if you just focus on troop numbers alone if you say the United States used to have a thousand people now they only have 800 or they used to have $800, they only have 400 you may well be missing America's capacity to preserve and protect itself.

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I was the I was the director of the CIA I I know the other tools and capabilities that we can bring they are unseen, they don't get reported from the podium at the Department of Defense but the American people should know President Trump has been unambiguous about getting it right making sure we put fewer of our young men and women in harm's way but never giving up the response.

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Stability we have to ensure the terrorism at least the risk that a terror act takes place and hurts Americans, whether they're here in the United States or elsewhere in the world is as well. Great Mr. Secretary I can't thank you enough for gracing us with your presence today. It was very kind of you to make the trip and it's deeply appreciated by me and by everyone else here.

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Please join me and thank you.