Decades of relative peace and prosperity that American leadership has enabled in the region are at risk.

To be clear, China's strategic intent is to chip away at decades of American security and economic primacy in Asia.

The Asia-Pacific Stability Initiative (APSI) proposed by Senator McCain is a long overdue step in this direction.

Chairman McCain, your tireless efforts to strengthen and transform our relationship with Vietnam have not only been heroic, they have been strategic.

The President, therefore, should use the opportunity offered by his appearance at the East Asia summit to clearly affirm America's commitment to maintaining its global primacy.

Would the witnesses agree that the abandonment of TPP was one of the biggest mistakes we have made?

America's interests in the Asia-Pacific region are deep and enduring.

The military option being extremely challenging.

I would like to thank you, Chairman McCain, for proposing an Asia Pacific Stability Initiative, which I hope the Trump Administration will support.

A North Korean missile with a nuclear payload capable of striking an American city is no longer a distant hypothetical.

We need to be clear-eyed about our long-term interests in preserving the American position, and that should be our north star.

This is a centipede. A shoe will drop every few days. The latest, the meeting in the Seychelles. Look, this is a requirement in my view why we need to select committee in order to get through all this because there's a lot more shoes that…