05/18/2021
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"The United States seeks to promote peace, prosperity, and universal human rights through an international rules-based order grounded in freedom and respect for sovereignty."
"The National Security Strategy laid out by President Biden and this Administration clearly establishes the goals and mission of our national security and foreign policy."
"It is essential, in my view, as we think about spending the money that Chairman Van Hollen has indicated that we spend it according to a comprehensive strategy that we have developed."
"You cannot beat something with nothing and, obviously, the Belt and Road Initiative includes a number of infrastructure investments, some of them funds misspent."