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Josh Brecheen: “I am greatly concerned that 20 years ago China was 2…”

Featuring: Josh Brecheen, Republican | U.S. House Oklahoma, 2nd Congressional District

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Syria | House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing

Published | Video Starts at 04:03

My real belief is that Erdogan's desire to have a reestablishment of the Ottoman Empire, that Alshara is not being fully truthful to what his real goal is. I don't think he's weak. I think he's a pragmatist and I think he's using. I am greatly concerned that 20 years ago China was 2 trillion GDP. And once prosperity came to China, once they got in the WTO, now they're at 20 trillion. they're the closest GDP clipping at the heels of America. And what we did by bringing prosper prosperity to China didn't change their ideology. (04:03–04:12)

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Asserts that China's GDP grew from 2 trillion to 20 trillion after joining the WTO.

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