So is it also fair to say that since China is the economic force within that region that we are challenged in terms of our own national interests in meeting that economic force with one that can compete with it?
Menendez highlights the challenge posed by China's economic influence in the Pacific.
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We do not have any free trade agreements being promoted in the region. We have a behemoth of an economic challenge with China in this region.
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