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Ed Markey: The greatest economic coercion strategy we can place on China is helping to build free-market trade agreements and…

On the recordJuly 23, 2018
The greatest economic coercion strategy we can place on China is helping to build free-market trade agreements and free-market economies in Asia whose standards are so high that a statist CCP will not be able to join.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey emphasizes the importance of free-market agreements to counter China's economic coercion.

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