Antony Blinken actually said...

"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."

"At every step along the way, we've said that fundamentally these questions about Ukraine, about its future, belong to the Ukrainians. These are their decisions. And we're determined to support them in..."