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China s primacy
Webb was chosen to deliver the Democratic Party’s Jan. 24 response to Bush’s State of the Union address, a role which further thrust him into the national limelight and helped earn him two one-on-one meetings with Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. The issue of China’s primacy, he said, dominates much of his thinking, and he has planned a trip to Asia in July to further his education.
He pondered aloud how China can produce a car for $15,000 which costs Detroit automakers $10,000 more. The social costs of health care, he reasoned, is burdened by the state, not the automaker, thus adding to the costs of production. “We are one of the few countries in the world where the cost of medical is put into the
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