Antony Blinken: “We are very aggressively engaged in cracking down on financing and support for Hamas.”

We have managed to move to a better trajectory politically to get back to a clearly mandated democratic government.

In the Middle East, we're standing with Israel in its efforts to ensure what happened on October 7th never happens again.

I can't go into the details of our conversations today except to say that our Egyptian counterparts were in communication with Hamas as early, as recently as a few hours ago.

I agree wholeheartedly with the short litany of items that you listed in terms of what China is doing to try to pursue its military, economic, diplomatic, preeminence or dominance in the world and across the board.