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Marco Rubio: “Torture will not end until the price of bad domestic publicity is too high for China's leaders to ignore.”

On the recordApril 13, 2016
Torture will not end until the price of bad domestic publicity is too high for China's leaders to ignore.
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Marco Rubio
Republican · Florida

Editor's note · Context

Suggests that public pressure is necessary to end torture in China.

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