Antony Blinken actually said...

"Be happy to do that."

"We need an additional number of civil and foreign service employees to scale up the Indo-Pacific strategy, and to out-compete China."

"Xi's visit shows China's intent to provide diplomatic cover for alleged Russian atrocities in Ukraine."

"China can't have it both ways. It can't be putting itself out as a force for peace in public, while it, one way or another, continues to fuel the flames of this fire that Vladimir Putin started."