the United States stands ready to work with our GCC partners to determine urgently what action may be appropriate, using...
the United States is prepared to work jointly with the GCC states to deter and confront any external threat to any GCC s...
I very much hope that the committee would give that some consideration.
We will not give up on diplomacy. We are not the Armed Services Committee. We are the Foreign Relations Committee.
The President and Vice President and senior officials made clear almost instantly after China's unilateral claim to have...
The United States has been the guarantor of peace and prosperity in the region for generations, and we cannot remain com...
Provocative conduct is not helpful at all, and we have seen more and more of these provocative incidents.
I do not think much is going to change.
China is accomplishing its mission by what it did because they are, in fact, establishing a claim that is not legitimate...
It would be a destabilizing and problematic act were China to move in that direction.
I wish I had you as one of my professors in college grading my papers. I think you are being pretty gentle.
if we were to ratify it, we might be able to use that mechanism more effectively with China.
the more fundamental point is that China has already made a commitment; made a commitment to avoid and refrain from prov...
The relationship between the United States and China is critically important to this country. It is a complex relationsh...
I leave here as disappointed as I was a year ago about the fact that we do not have a policy.
It does seem to me that this committee is concerned that there are a lot of risk factors in the China seas.
I think that the foot-dragging on the code of conduct is a problem, and that is something that we shine a light on and e...
Unilateral action by China caused a major problem at the time that could have escalated even more than it did.
