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On the recordMay 22, 2012
If you are going to go to war, you want to go to war with China over the South China Sea, you better lay the predicate.
Said by
Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

Editor's note · Context

Risch emphasizes the importance of exhausting peaceful options before military action against China.

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