Former U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken:
If we're competing with China one-on-one, that's a game that we may lose.
Their market's much bigger, their manufacturing is three times our manufacturing.
Purchasing power parity is greater than ours, more papers, more patents, a bigger navy — you can go down the list.
But when we're aligned with Europe, with Japan, with Korea, with India, with Australia, with Canada, we go from about 25% of world GDP to 50 or 60%. A lot harder for China to ignore.