East Asia and the Pacific represents the opportunities and challenges of this century like no other part of the world.
We need to pay attention to... trade practices that are not conducive to open trade and honest trade.
If we create a vacuum we know the rules of nature--nature abhors a vacuum--it will be filled by somebody.
But to cut the budget to State to save money in the hopes of strengthening our presence and growing strategies...
Yet, here we are 20 years and we see it is not true.
I came up here, I was one of the guys that wanted to get rid of foreign aid.
The importance of East Asia to U.S. interests is beyond doubt.
I suggest that that is a dangerous and shortsighted approach to budgeting.
Access to the U.S. market should be dependent upon fair and balanced trade.
I think this is something, it is like anything else in life, if you have got a problem, if you ignore it it is not going...
I think that is a lesson to be learned. That is one of the ways that we are going to have to make these changes so that ...