James E. Risch: “We are not going to outcompete China with our personnel sitting behind Embassy walls. They need to get out.”

This is a bipartisan issue, and it is an American issue and something we all need to work on together.

I think it is incumbent upon us as we go forward to do that, and I commit to you that we will continue to pursue that.

Autocrats fear the loss of control, and this ensures opposing ideas are neither seen nor heard.

the United States has been a partner of Georgia for 30 years now, supporting its democracy, its self-determination, its security, and it is a relationship that has been based on shared values.