06/22/2022
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"The behavior that we engage in here on this dais has impacts and implications for people out there, especially young people who watch us."
"Maintaining strong relationships with the Freely Associated States is essential to countering this influence and to maintaining peace and economic stability abroad and at home."
"But rather, it is the case that the United States will lose credibility within the region and beyond."
"Obviously, the national security, not only of the United States, but of the globe, depends on our ability to address issues in the South Pacific."