What they really want, is investment in their productive capacity, and this is absolutely critical to making sure that they have sustainable agricultural production.

I think as it now stands, the world has moved on, and I think we have to focus, in the first instance, on what we can do.

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

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

The post-Cold War world era is over and there is an intense competition underway to determine, to shape, what comes next.

I do, but it is also based on the--what we hear.

We can't do more with less. We must increase our investments in our diplomatic and development tools if we want to strengthen our national security.

I am aware of, and share the concern about that, and we have been asking the Mexican Authorities...

We have worked from day one to do two things, foundational things: One is to support important investments in ourselves.

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

I am deeply sensitive to the way this was perceived by our friends.

We have a backlog, a very significant backlog that has built up.