12/08/2014
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"America can be proud that it was the 'first and the most' in responding to this crisis."
"Because of the wider context of enhanced United States engagement with ASEAN, the LMI has been welcomed by most other Southeast Asian countries, due to concern about China's hegemonic potential."
"We are in this for the long haul, as all of you have emphasized."
"the Obama administration has made the Mekong Basin the focal point of its professed engagement with Southeast Asia and ASEAN, and not a moment too soon."