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On the recordFebruary 6, 2012
It would seem illogical that we are both financing the Chinese expansion and then we are financing the response, but it is not illogical at all from the standpoint of corporate profits.
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Brian Higgins
Democratic · New York

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Higgins critiques the contradictory U.S. financial support for China and its military response.

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