09/09/2009
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"The control of these islands--and I'm not saying China should control them--would give them the capacity to blockade their own ports."
"We should resist a tendency that I see at the Pentagon to try to reconfigure our military as one devoted to fighting China in the South China Sea."
"The Philippines wants to calm down. Japan is willing to spend only 1 percent of its GDP defending itself."
"We should focus on the threats to the United States, especially terrorism, also North Korea."