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Marco Rubio: “We cannot continue to have the Chinese and through their…”

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

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Marco Rubio talks USAID, US, Mexico, China, Canada tariff wars, Panama canal.

Published | Video Starts at 02:04

Yeah, there's a lot of options, and I'm not going to preclude any options about what the final outcome looks like. But at a prerequisite baseline, We cannot continue to have the Chinese and through their companies exercising effective control of the Canal area. And that needs to happen. I was pretty clear, and I hope that we'll see steps, additional steps in the days to come to reaffirm that. So you're now the head of usaid. (02:04–02:11)

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Asserts that Chinese companies currently exercise effective control over the Panama Canal area.

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