12/12/2017
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"I oppose all three for that purpose. That is not Congress' role to micromanage military tactics."
"For all its problems, Taiwan people like the democracy that they have, and they do not want to go backward."
"I think the bottom line is that it is clear that our response to the democratic aspirations of people on the mainland or anywhere else when it comes to China are muted by real realpolitik consideratio..."
"When they talk about autonomy, when they talk about democratic opening, what it means to them is very different from what we think it means."