Beneath each of those outcomes lay an economic policy that became unmoored from our national strategy. We've emboldened other countries to exploit our dependence as leverage. And to repair those imbalances with the world is not to retreat from it, is not to retreat from it. On the contrary, it is to engage on terms that make America stronger. (08:19–08:24)
CLAIM
Asserts that U.S. policies have allowed other countries to use American dependence as leverage.
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