Antony Blinken: “We can use these instruments to facilitate the private sector playing the role.”

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.

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.

We assess that Hamas has recruited almost as many new militants as it has lost. That is a recipe for an enduring insurgency and perpetual war.

If Israel launches a major military operation into Rafah then there are systems we are not going to be supporting and supplying for that operation.