Ashton Carter said...

We're not trying to carry out a strategy that is 4 years old. We're trying to carry out our strategy of today.

We are also quadrupling the European Reassurance Initiative, which allows us to do more with our NATO partners there.

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

Our view is that everybody ought to resolve those peacefully and not militarize those features.