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On the recordApril 16, 2018
Nobody on this dais and nobody in this country that I know of wants to be in a world with China, but if it means that we must then kowtow and continue to kowtow to China to support a free and democratic Taiwan, then we have to do, we are going to have to change course somewhere.
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Scott Perry
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Perry argues against appeasing China for Taiwan's sake.

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