Antony Blinken: “These Island Nations in the North Pacific are--basically what stands between us and the further reaches of the Pacific.”

I am not going to apologize to anyone for standing up for American workers and American companies.

We are working to do that. Obviously, in the countries that have been on the receiving end of coups, there are some limits that we have to abide by.

We need to keep up this momentum. That requires a State Department budget that we fully resource.

The need for U.S. global leadership--and cooperation with allies and partners--has never been greater.