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 prosperity to China didn't change their ideology. All it did was make them truly a weapon of warfare that we now fear. My great concern is that we are enabling the prosperity of Turkey, we are enabling the prosperity of Russia. And Ashara is not being truthful to us. (04:15–04:25)
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Asserts that economic prosperity did not change China's ideology but made them a feared power.
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