Ed 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."

"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."

"This is a lot of Muslim clout out there. We just do not see it at work here."