Antony Blinken

Taiwan is a reliable, likeminded, and democratic partner.

We are fully prepared to move forward.

This budget will help us push back on advancing authoritarianism and democratic backsliding by strengthening democracies worldwide.

The United States has a positive vision for the future: a world that's free, secure, open and prosperous.

Senator I share your basic analysis.

I think that with your leadership what Congress was able to do in putting together the CHIPS and Science Act is one of the most important achievements we have had in our ability to compete effectively, particularly with China.

I think it is a way of--strongly encouraging, countries to take steps that they need to take to improve the human rights picture.

We have seen that these--some of these laws are ripped from the playbooks from Russia, China, and other places.

We are expanding our presence in critical regions like the Indo-Pacific and we are leading unprecedented coalitions to confront aggression and address humanitarian crises around the world.

Be happy to do that.

Hope is always important, but of course, it has to be grounded in reality.

President Biden is firmly committed to advancing a free and open Indo-Pacific.

I want to see us be able to reestablish an ongoing presence in Libya.

It is hugely important to our ability to attract, but also retain the best talent and we are in a competition for talent.

President Biden is firmly committed to advancing a free and open Indo-Pacific, which is why this proposal asks for an 18% increase in our budget for that region over FY 2023.

We put something together that I think is going to bear very good results.

This budget will also strengthen our efforts to outcompete the PRC.

We have worked very closely together in building out the Abraham Accords.

We are meeting at an inflection point. The post-Cold War era is over.

If we allow the Russian aggression in Ukraine to go forward with impunity... we open a Pandora's box around the world.

I committed to doing my part to try to restore Congress' place as an equal partner in our foreign policymaking.

For the first time the United States got this on the full agenda of the G20.

I think your voice on this could make a real difference. I would strongly encourage that as well as your engagements with the leaders themselves.

Countries make their own sovereign decisions in their international relationships.

the DFC is a critical tool, one that I think we are using, increasingly, effectively