OPINION_ Sen. Marco Rubio: China wants to completely supplant the US – We can't allow it to hold the world hostage

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Sen. Marco Rubio: China wants to completely supplant the US – We can't allow it to hold the world hostage

OPINION - By Sen. Marco Rubio | Fox News

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NBA preseason games will not be broadcast in China in response to a tweet from the Houston Rockets GM as NBA Commissioner Adam Silver defends freedom of speech.



Over the past several days, Americans have seen exactly how China uses access to its vast domestic market as leverage to coerce American companies thanks to a now-deleted tweet by Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey in support of Hong Kong.

NBA commissioner Adam Silver said last week that the league was “not apologizing for Daryl exercising his freedom of expression,” but the Chinese Communist Party demands total conformity with its worldview.

CCTV, China’s state television broadcaster, could not have been more explicit: “We believe that any remarks that challenge national sovereignty and social stability are not within the scope of freedom of speech.”


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As shocking as CCTV’s statement is to most Americans, NBA star LeBron James took a different approach on Monday, saying, “We do have freedom of speech, but there can be a lot of negatives that come with that too.” He assailed Morey’s pro-Hong Kong tweet as “misinformed and not educated.”

Not all athletes agree, but far too many in business with China have made their loyalties crystal clear; and that is par for the course when it comes to dealing with Beijing’s authoritarian regime. It also does not even begin to describe the scope of the threat posed by the Chinese government and Communist Party.

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Inaction is not an acceptable response. In response to last week’s aggression, we should consider using existing laws and regulations, such as applying statues from the 1970s to counter unsanctioned foreign boycotts, to defend America’s interests and hit back against China’s hostile and coercive actions against U.S. citizens and companies.

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More broadly, we must confront the economic threat posed by China and our own economic weakness. Unless we act -- policymakers, business leaders, and consumers alike -- we simply embolden the Chinese Communist Party to hold the world hostage when it doesn't get its way. And we condemn our nation to a future in which China sets the rules for our economy, our workers, and our culture.

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