Edward Markey actually said...

"So should the United States abandon the rules-based international system?"

"I think that the fundamental assessment from my point of view is that U.S. alliances in Asia are fundamental to our power, our access, and our interests in the region."

"So we do not want to over-hype that, though, because we clearly have a far superior military right now."

"The greatest economic coercion strategy we can place on China is helping to build free-market trade agreements and free-market economies in Asia whose standards are so high that a statist CCP will not..."