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Jeff Merkley: “Today's hearing of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China entitled 'How China Uses Economic Coercion to Silence…”

On the recordDecember 6, 2021
Today's hearing of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China entitled 'How China Uses Economic Coercion to Silence Critics and Achieve Its Political Aims Globally' will come to order.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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Merkley introduces the hearing on China's economic coercion tactics.

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