Political Quotes

Our partnership with each of your countries and the region at large, it’s in the national interest of the United States, and we will never abandon it.

I’m concerned because the rhetoric from Beijing is very aggressive, and it seems to be particularly focused on Japan.

When those commitments are not kept, which is what’s happened in this particular case, then there will be consequences. And that has to happen.

Those need to be managed very carefully, because obviously, a conflict — be it economic or otherwise — between the U.S. and China would have a dramatic global impact.