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Jeff Merkley: “It seems to me this is a case where it is a deliberate strategy to create leverage.”

On the recordNovember 26, 2018
It seems to me this is a case where it is a deliberate strategy to create leverage.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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Merkley critiques China's debt strategy as intentional leverage creation.

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