The Chinese have played a lot of clips of what happened at the Capitol on January 6. And in their propaganda... have talked about how we’re in no position to advise other countries on how to govern themselves.
Robert Gates explains how the January 6 Capitol events have affected America's global standing.
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Their ambitions are to have a dominant role at least in the Middle East to continue their pattern of terrorism directly and through Hezbollah and to enhance their position by the acquisition of nuclear weapons.
I think the only thing I would've said is that a lot of this could've been done sooner.
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