… up a dollar for them to continue to expand operations, and you're still building their industrial capacity. But I want to take one step back from that and say, look, China is the single most powerful rival potential adversary the United States has ever faced in its history. It. It dwarfs anything the Soviet Union ever posed. And I was tough on China before. It was cool. So everybody now has got a bill out there to be tough on China, and that's fine. (14:26–14:33)
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Asserts that China is the most powerful adversary the U.S. has faced.
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