"What the Chinese have done — they’ve studied us, they’ve studied the competition we had with the Soviet Union — they realized that if we ever became focused on their activities, then that would be tough for them because they relied on our openness in order to go after us, so they were essentially slowly eroding our personal freedoms through their economic and financial interaction with the country."
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