Sen. Hawley questions Dept. of Defense on Google providing "direct benefit" to the Chinese military

So I just want to make sure that I understand exactly what you're saying. You're telling me that Google, an American company supposedly, is refusing to work with the Department of Defense, but is doing work in China, with China, in China, in a way that at least indirectly benefits the Chinese government. Is that correct? I haven't heard the word refuse, but there's a lack of willingness to support DoD programs. General, you're nodding your head. Do you want to weigh in on this? No, Senator. I'm nodding your head on exactly the point that you made, that the work that Google is doing in China is indirectly benefiting the Chinese military. And I've been very public on this issue as well. In fact, the way I described it to our industry partners is, look, we're the good guys. And the values that we represent and the system that we represent is the one that will allow and has allowed you to thrive. And that's the way I've characterized it. So I was just nodding that what the Secretary was articulating is a general sense of all of us as leaders. And we watch with great concern when industry partners work in China, knowing that there is that indirect benefit. And frankly, indirect may be not a full characterization of the way it really is. It's more of a direct benefit to the Chinese military. I just want to underscore this for the record, so that we are absolutely, perfectly, 100% clear here that Google, an American company based in this country, again, supposedly an American company, is doing work in China that directly or indirectly benefits the Chinese government at a time of increased peer competition with this country. We are in a struggle with the Chinese government over whether or not they're going to become a regional and maybe global hegemon with values very different from ours, certainly values that do not favor freedom in the world. And we have an American company that does not want to do work with our Defense Department, which is one thing, but they're happy to help the Chinese, at least the Chinese government, that is, the Chinese military, at least indirectly. I think that's just extraordinary.