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On the recordNovember 8, 2023
It is my personal belief and I have tried to make this argument that the three challenges of what is happening in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Straits, what is happening with Iran's desire to build a Islamist regional order centered on Tehran, and what is happening and what Putin has done in Ukraine--that those three things in combination--any one of the three can--holds the real risk of escalation and spiraling into something worse, but the combination of the three really are an inflection point that will determine, in my view, much of what the rest of the century is going to look like.
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Marco Rubio
Republican · Florida

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Rubio discusses the interconnected global threats posed by China, Iran, and Russia's actions in Ukraine.

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