Ash Carter: “What is particularly tragic is that sequestration is not a result of an economic emergency or a recession.”

It absolutely is. That's why we quadrupled the European Reassurance Initiative.

"Up-or-out" isn't broken--in fact, it's an essential and highly successful system--but it's also not perfect.

China has and shares important responsibility for this development and has an important responsibility to reverse it.

I can't support, and won't support, is anything that moves towards instability.