Trump's State Dept nominee Rubio warns against reliance on China

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Republican US Senator Marco Rubio promised a robust foreign policy focused on American interests at his nomination hearing on Jan 15 for secretary of state under President-elect Donald Trump who takes office on Jan 20.  A China hawk and staunch backer of Israel, the 53-year-old Rubio is expected to comfortably win confirmation by the full Senate.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Thank you very much, Senator Scott.

00:02You'll be a strong secretary.

00:04How can you coexist?

00:05How can any nation state on the planet coexist?

00:10Well, thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, Senator Rubio.

00:13Senator Rubio, this is a long, laundry list of crises.

00:17You've earned yourself one of the hardest jobs in America,

00:20but after serving with you for so many years, I'm confident

00:24you are the right person we need to take on these threats.

00:27Thank you very much.

00:28You and I have also had a good working relationship for many years.

00:32I believe you have the skills and are well qualified to serve as Secretary of State.

00:37We welcome the Chinese Communist Party into the global order.

00:41And they took advantage of all of its benefits.

00:44And they ignored all of its obligations and responsibilities.

00:47Instead, they have repressed and lied and cheated and hacked and stolen

00:53their way into global superpower status.

00:56And they have done so at our expense and at the expense of the people of their own country.

01:02So if we don't change course, we are going to live in a world

01:05where much of what matters to us on a daily basis, from our security to our health,

01:09will be dependent on whether the Chinese allow us to have it or not.

01:12That's an unacceptable outcome.

01:14And as a result, I think we need to wrap our head around the fact

01:17that unless something dramatic changes, like

01:21an equilibrium where they conclude that the costs of intervening in Taiwan are too high,

01:26we're going to have to deal with this before the end of this decade.

01:28We are once again called to create a free world out of the chaos.

01:33And this will not be easy.

01:35And it will be impossible without a strong and a confident America that engages in the world,

01:41putting our core national interests once again, above all else.

01:46The thing that flowed from that was the indictment on the same day of Netanyahu,

01:50plus a Hamas character.

01:53I think, first of all, the whole premise of his prosecution is flawed,

01:56beyond the process of it and the precedent that it sets,

01:58which is a very dangerous precedent for the United States of America, by the way,

02:01because this is a test run.

02:02This is a trial run to see, can we go after a head of state from a nation that's not a member?

02:07If we can go after them and we can get it done with regards to Israel,

02:10they will apply that to the United States at some point.

02:13And in fact, there have been threats to do so in the past.

02:15But the premise of the prosecution itself is completely and utterly flawed.

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