“These are state-owned enterprises by a communist government and I’m worried about the flipping of that to a military application very quickly if something were to happen, maybe in the Indo-Pacom region,” she said at last year’s Aspen Security Forum.
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She noted the Biden administration’s promotion of the American Partnership for Economic Prosperity (APEP), and said there are “big projects that are rolling out as a result,” in coordination with the Inter American Development Bank and the Developmental Finance Corporation.
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