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Jim Himes: “The Chinese are not going away.”

Featuring: Jim Himes, Democratic | U.S. House Connecticut, 4th Congressional District

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A Conversation with Representative Jim Himes | American Conversations

Published | Video Starts at 31:47

And I'll answer from the standpoint of what are we not doing, which we must do, number one, like it or not, we now live in a bipolar, maybe even tripolar world. Right. The Chinese are not going away. The Chinese have huge problems demographically, economically, etc. But they are not going away. And so, at a minimum, the world now consists of an enormously powerful United States and an enormously powerful and rising China. (31:47–31:50)

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Asserts China's continued presence and influence on the global stage.

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