"We've spent eight trillion dollars on wars over the past 20 years since 2002 ... while we were bombing bridges, ports, roads, schools, universities, hospitals, they (the Chinese) were building them," said U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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