03/02/2009
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"I welcome the witnesses. Secretary Shear, it is nice to see you again and thank you for your continued outstanding service, including as our Ambassador to Vietnam."
"I am confident in our ability to take the fight to China, if it should come to that, and I certainly hope it does not."
"America's national interests in the Asia-Pacific region are deep and enduring."
"We will fly, sail anywhere. Then he stated, quote, after all, turning an underwater rock into an airfield simply does not afford the rights of sovereignty or permit restrictions on international air o..."