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Marco Rubio: “If we outsource all that to China and we end up in conflict…”

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

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Future Secretary of State Marco Rubio on China & American Economic Policy

Published | Video Starts at 07:17

We have to be able to make ships and airplanes. We have to be able to make these things, just be able to protect our country. Because I assure you that If we outsource all that to China and we end up in conflict with them, they're not going to be sending us ships and airplanes. But it extends to things like semiconductors and increasingly, you know, precision medicine and all sorts of new innovations that are coming down there. And some of the older things too. (07:17–07:24)

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Asserts that outsourcing critical industries to China poses a national security risk.

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