Rex Tillerson: “America First, as we said, does not mean America alone. We will continue our strong alliances and partnerships.”

I am deeply troubled by the lack of transparency in many Chinese loans.

China's approach encourages dependency by using predatory loan practices to mire nations in debt and undercut their sovereignty.

If our leaders seek to conceal the truth, or we as people become accepting of alternative realities that are no longer grounded in facts, then we as American citizens are on a pathway to relinquishing our freedom.

Interim local political arrangements that give voice to all groups and ethnicities supportive of Syria's broader political transition must emerge with international support.