They are efforts to, basically, make these nations economically, politically, and, eventually, militarily dependent on and vulnerable to China.
What are your recommendations for the President, as far as how important that challenge is?
Defending human rights isn't just a good thing to do or just the right moral thing to do, which it most certainly is.
They have most certainly not embraced democracy. They have actually gotten more autocratic.
One of the first things autocratic rulers do, almost by definition, is they violate the human rights of their people.
There is no equivalence between the promotion of democracy and Russian and other attempts to interfere in democracy.
the major faultline in global affairs repeatedly is the competition, really a global competition between autocratic systems of governance an...
Promoting democracy is in the vital national interests of the United States.
They point to our model and say, 'It is dysfunctional.'
The United States does have a very potent power of example.
That is where we get a lot of complaints from American companies seeking to do work in the region.