{"id":53527,"date":"2022-10-17T13:49:34","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T20:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=53527"},"modified":"2022-10-17T16:50:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T23:50:01","slug":"remarks-at-slac-national-accelerator-laboratory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=53527","title":{"rendered":"Remarks at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"
10\/17\/2022 04:48 PM EDT<\/div>\n

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Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State<\/p>\n

Menlo Park, California<\/p>\n

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory<\/p>\n

SECRETARY BLINKEN:<\/strong>\u00a0 It\u2019s really an honor to be here with Congresswoman Eshoo and with the Speaker.\u00a0 This national lab is a national treasure.\u00a0 We have U.S.-led, world-class research that is essential to our national security, is essential to our economic competitiveness, is essential to solving the problems of the world, problems that are also having an impact on people\u2019s everyday lives.\u00a0 And what we saw this morning may not be news to most of the people here and certainly not news to Congresswoman Eshoo and the Speaker, but it will be and already is absolutely essential to tackling the biggest problems of our time, whether it\u2019s climate change, whether it\u2019s basic health, whether it\u2019s understanding the fundamentals of the world around us.<\/p>\n

One of the things I\u2019m so grateful for is that thanks to the leadership of the Speaker, thanks to the leadership of the congresswoman, thanks to the leadership of President Biden, we are reinvesting in ourselves.\u00a0 We\u2019re reinvesting in basic science.\u00a0 We\u2019re reinvesting in research and development.\u00a0 This is how the United States maintains its leadership around the world, its technological leadership, its attractiveness.\u00a0 There are scientists, researchers, experts from all over here mixing with so many extraordinary students and researchers at Stanford and from the labs.\u00a0 And that collision of atoms is producing extraordinary insight, extraordinary discovery, and ultimately extraordinary applications.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s fundamental to what we\u2019re able to do around the world.\u00a0 It goes directly to our standing.\u00a0 When I\u2019m traveling around the world, the most powerful thing that connects us to others is American science, innovation, entrepreneurship, and all of that is happening right here, and of course it\u2019s happening in Silicon Valley more broadly.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s an honor to be here, but beyond that it really connects what we\u2019re doing here at home to what we\u2019re trying to do around the world and making sure that in the State Department we\u2019re helping to foster these collaborations with other countries, with other companies, with other experts.\u00a0 That\u2019s a fundamental part of our job (inaudible).\u00a0 So thank you for having us today.<\/p>\n

SPEAKER PELOSI:<\/strong>\u00a0 If I just may say just thank you.\u00a0 Those of us who have watched this for decades know that your leadership fits comfortably, Dr. (inaudible), (inaudible) so many heroes (inaudible). Thank you for your leadership.\u00a0 And so important is this to the Secretary, that he\u2019s established a new bureau.<\/p>\n

SECRETARY BLINKEN:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s right.\u00a0 That\u2019s right.\u00a0 Because it\u2019s so important at the State Department that the United States be at the table around the world when so many of the \u2013 for example, the norms, the rules, the standards that go to how technology is used, they get decided often internationally.\u00a0 We stood up and recognized the new Bureau for Cyberspace and Digital Policy led by Ambassador Nate Fick to make sure that we are \u2013 in fact, Nate\u2019s with us today \u2013 that we are not only at the table, but we\u2019re leading the way.<\/p>\n

Because one of the challenges that we have is if we\u2019re not doing this, if the United States is not playing the lead role, then one of two things: either someone else is, and probably not in a way that reflects our own interests and our own values; or no one is.\u00a0 And we know that the world, in so many of its manifestations, doesn\u2019t organize itself.<\/p>\n

So a critical part the State Department is playing is making sure that around the world we are at the table and we\u2019re leading on these issues.\u00a0 And of course we know they have a direct impact on the lives of virtually every single American.\u00a0 All of the emergent technology that we\u2019ve seen, including from here, is quite literally shaping our lives and shaping the future of the world.<\/p>\n

We have an incredibly positive agenda for making sure that here in the United States we\u2019re leading the way to figuring out new medical applications to make people\u2019s lives healthier, new applications to make sure that we can power our planet but not in a way that\u2019s reliant on fossil fuels, new ways of dealing with food to make sure we have healthy, sustainable food.\u00a0 All of that, all of these discoveries, are happening, starting in places like this remarkable place.\u00a0 We want to make sure the State Department is doing its job in representing the United States around the world.\u00a0 Thank you.\u00a0 (Applause.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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