We know that China's built that military capability with the help of some of America's biggest corporations and even American tax dollars. For too long, our government was willfully blind to the threat China posed. Multinational corporations eager to move jobs wherever they could pay ever lower wages lobbied this body. And presidents of both parties failed us for permanent normal trade relations with China. (00:00–06:34)
CLAIM
Asserts that the U.S. government ignored the threat posed by China for an extended period.
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