And I'm just going to repeat what the President has said, what the National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has said from this podium about the relationship, the U.S. relationship with China. And what the President remains doing is -- and is incredibly focused on is managing the most consequential relationship. You've heard both of them say that. It is the most consequential relationship.
And it is because of the work of this administration that we are handling -- handing off the U.S.-China relationship in a stronger, competitive position. Under President Biden, we have made America stronger and positioned us to outcompete China through significant investments in the United States, develop closer relationship with our allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific,
increase our deterrent capabilities, and diminish China's ability to exploit our most sensitive technologies. At the same time,
We are carefully managing and we have carefully managed this relationship through skilled diplomacy to prevent competition from varying into conflict. Remember, that's what we want. We want competition, not conflict. So we're going to continue to manage this relationship. I'm not going to get into hypotheticals of what the next administration may or may not do. But what I can lay out, as I just did, is how the President
has focused on this consequential relationship with China, the U.S.-China relationship.