We agreed that we must strengthen U.S. defense posture and increase security engagement with our allies in the region.

I believe it is important that Taiwan participate in as many international organizations as we can.

We must also support the South Korean Government in its humane and generous refugee program for those from the North.

I understand there is a time agreement on the recess before lunch. I ask unanimous consent that I be allowed to finish and complete my remarks. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

The Chinese think they were Chinese before we ever arrived. They think they have a civilization that has its own view of the way things work.

I wanted to come to the floor again to express my strong support for a very mainstream, well-qualified nominee for the Supreme Court, Judge Neil Gorsuch. Last week, this country got to watch the Senate Judiciary Committee carry out days of…

These hearings are also informing new legislation that we are working on that I am leading called the Asia Reassurance Initiative Act.

If the Congress or the administration should consider a ban on U.S. citizen travel to the North, an exception should be permitted for travel by Americans involved in humanitarian and other worthy efforts in North Korea.

We cannot ignore the fundamental fact that it is Asia and Asia will be critical for the U.S. economy to grow.

We must fully fund those activities because a strategy with insufficient resources is no strategy at all.

If we work with China to address human rights, if we work with China to address intellectual property, if we work with China to address reforms when it comes to different laws and respect of the rule of law, that they will eventually come…

Free and open means sort an Asia of independent states, that they are not tributary to other parts of Asia.

the extrajudicial killings that have taken place in the Philippines create a very significant obstacle for the United States

The Asia-Pacific region has been and will remain critical to the United States' economic and national security interests.

I believe, is a long-term strategy when it comes to Asia.

We should also assist private American humanitarian organizations that provide such aid.

What we have lacked in this country, I believe, is a long-term strategy when it comes to Asia.

President Trump has just concluded a landmark visit to the region, the longest by a U.S. President in over 25 years.

Our aim is for all nations to live in prosperity, security, and liberty, free from coercion and able to choose their own path.

if you were to devise from scratch a body to promote a free and open order, you would band together the nations at the fulcrum of the region in Southeast Asia.

There are some who believe that we need a stronger public diplomacy information campaign directed at China.

One of the focuses of the bill, of course, is human rights and rule of law.

The United States seeks to maintain a free and open Indo-Pacific region.

the strategic logic of ASEAN is that small and medium-sized nations in Southeast Asia can band together and use their collective weight to resist outside coercion and foster a free and open order, a rules-based order.

It is your full intent, though, that the Philippines has no hesitation on the agreement, the partnership?