Antony Blinken: “Trying to break this nexus between political elites and the gangs is critical.”

The People's Republic of China is pursuing military, economic, and geopolitical preeminence, challenging our vision for a free, open, secure, and prosperous international order.

There is no question that countries around the world prefer to work with us.

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.

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.