I can't imagine why we would make decisions that are bad for America because they somehow are good for somebody else. And For a long time, we were making public policy that way [bad for America because they somehow are good for somebody else]. And I think that's the bigger challenge. China is a product of that. It is. The Chinese leaders have done exactly what any rational leader of a nation state seeking to become a great power would do. (17:24–17:33)
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Asserts that U.S. public policy was made in ways that were not beneficial to America.
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