Edward Markey actually said...

"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..."

"The United States and China are now locked in a high-stakes geopolitical competition."

"To avoid these outcomes, the central aims of U.S. strategy in the near-term should be to enhance U.S. competitiveness."

"I am encouraged to hear that the bipartisan Asia Reassurance Initiative Act will be marked up by the full committee."