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Ted Cruz: “Communist China poses the single greatest geopolitical…”

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What a strange world we live in. Look, when it comes to China, I have long believe. And when I arrived in the Senate 13 years ago, what I articulated then is that Communist China poses the single greatest geopolitical threat to the United States over the next hundred years. Now, I'll tell you, when I got there, that was a very lonely position. There was almost nobody in Washington saying that every Democrat disagreed with me and most Republicans disagreed with me. (26:35–26:43)

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Asserts that Communist China is the greatest geopolitical threat to the U.S. for the next century.

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