Ned Price: “If they do invade in the coming days, it will make clear they were never serious about diplomacy.”

We would wish to see from the PRC a greater degree of responsibility, a greater acknowledgement that it is in the interest of the Chinese people, yes, to better understand the origins of COVID-19, but it is in the interest of people around…

We've sent a very strong message to our Moldovan partners that the United States stands with them. We stand behind the sovereignty, the independence, the territorial integrity, of our Moldovan partners.

We want to send a single, unambiguously clear message to the Russian Federation that this is unacceptable. This is something that we take very seriously.

It is never in our interest to see Russian aircraft and American aircraft coming to such close contact. We want to make clear as we did today, as we did yesterday, that this kind of activity should cease.