We have given them over 500, the way I understand it.

China's actions are not those of a responsible, wanna-be superpower. China will not alter its course or actions in the East Sea, the South China Sea, Arctic, or elsewhere until it meets sufficient resistance to change its behavior.

I agree.

We cannot afford to secede that to anybody or lose that to anybody.

I do not want to get into too much politics, but, you know, we pulled out of TPP, and Hillary Clinton as candidate said she would have pulled out of that.

I just wanted to point that out because I think if we show just a pullback of any that vacuum gets created and it gets filled by somebody else.

If we do not stand up to China today, it will not be possible.

Is it not true that we stopped freedom of navigation operations and then they got started again under President Trump?

The best way to deal with this is through economic actions and it should not be the United States alone.

I think we need to look at what is China's ultimate goal and then we need to call them out on this.

I think what we need to do is define what China is trying to do, you know, what are they doing, what is their ultimate goal, and then how do we counter what they are doing.