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James Traficant: when it comes to China, the wheel is turning but the hamster is dead. Check this out. China rips us off for $60 billion…

On the recordApril 30, 1998
when it comes to China, the wheel is turning but the hamster is dead. Check this out. China rips us off for $60 billion a year. Then they steal our nuclear and missile technology. Then they sell that technology and those missiles to our enemies. Then the White House, they panic, and they spend billions of dollars to protect America from Chinese missiles pointed at us by our enemies, missiles that were financed by American dollars. Unbelievable. Some of these foreign policy gurus must have fallen into the gene pool when the lifeguard was not looking, my colleagues. If this is a policy, I am a fashion leader. I want to say one last thing: I want to yield back any national security we have left, and if this policy with China makes any sense, then we all need a lobotomy.

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Criticizing U.S. policy towards China and its implications for national security.

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