Jim Banks: “last week over the recess, I had the opportunity to visit Taiwan coinciding with the 47th anniversary of the Taiwan…”

“last week over the recess, I had the opportunity to visit Taiwan coinciding with the 47th anniversary of the Taiwan Relations Act. After I left Taiwan, I went to Japan and visited Tokyo, visited with many of our troops and some of our military bases and was briefed there as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. What I got to see last week I believe was President Trump's national security strategy--the new national security strategy--in action. So I wanted to come this afternoon to the floor after returning--I am still a little jet-lagged from my visits overseas, but I wanted to spend a few minutes today talking about what I learned and how President Trump's new national security strategy is already making the United States more secure. Through his bold actions in Venezuela, Iran, and beyond, President Trump is demonstrating that America is stronger when the President acts unapologetically in defense of our national interests. When the new National Security Strategy was introduced last September, many so-called foreign policy experts started immediately denouncing it. Op-eds were written that said that because the security strategy focuses on the Western Hemisphere, that somehow means we are no longer prioritizing our competition with China. That is total hogwash. Nothing could be further from the truth. I want to stick to the facts today about what the National Security Strategy really means.”