Deseret News – March 17, 2021
Sen. Mitt Romney didn’t sound optimistic Wednesday about the prospect of a “long of tooth” — or aging — Congress coming up with a plan to match the rising power of China around the globe.
The Utah Republican said in a Senate hearing that it’s clear China has a “extraordinarily comprehensive strategy” to dominate its region and ultimately the world economically and militarily.
“There is no way that a bunch of men and women in Congress are going to come up with a strategy to confront that. We are being outcompeted in a dramatic way on the world stage. We’re not equipped as a group of folks that are a little long of tooth to come up with something so comprehensive that we’re going to push back in a positive way and assert our leadership in the world,” Romney said.