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Marco Rubio: “If they mine the Straits of Hormuz, the Chinese are going to…”

Featuring: Marco Rubio, Republican | Secretary of State, United States | National

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But if they do that, the first people that should be angry about Chinese government because they take a lot of their oil comes through there. So they should be the first ones that are saying, If they mine the Straits of Hormuz, the Chinese are going to pay a huge price and every other country in the world is going to pay a huge price. We will too. It will have some impact on us. It will have a lot more impact on the rest of the world. A lot more impact on the rest of the world. (13:45–13:51)

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Asserts that mining the Straits of Hormuz would have significant global economic impacts, particularly on China.

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