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Marco Rubio: “I don't think our country can survive as a great power if we…”

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Sen. Marco Rubio at Rebuilding American Capitalism An American Compass Forum.

Published | Video Starts at 10:49

I think telecommunications and biomedicine is perhaps a little bit more elevated given that I think we could survive wearing Chinese T shirts, although I'd love to have at least Central American T shirts so it's closer. But I don't think our country can survive as a great power if we depend on China for our medicine. Any advances in Medicine, telecommunications and technology and the like. So I think those are important. Likewise with agriculture, which a lot of people don't think about as a critical industry, but it really is. (10:49–10:56)

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Asserts that dependence on China for medicine threatens U.S. status as a great power.

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