05/15/2023
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"I am concerned that the Administration is sort of hoping this will go away or that a speech of grand principles will suffice."
"I share Senator Hagerty's view that we cannot allow China to establish preconditions for the opportunity to talk to them."
"I agree with Senator Ricketts that we do need to up our game in East Asia and the Pacific."
"You cannot beat something with nothing and, obviously, the Belt and Road Initiative includes a number of infrastructure investments, some of them funds misspent."