Jim Webb: “We need a strategy that has clearly articulated endpoints, not simply benchmarks, so we really know where we are going.”

We do support the validity of internationally accepted Exclusive Economic Zones, those that are set out under basically agreed-upon international law.

I have been in a number of meetings where each of you took us to the woodshed about needing to try harder.

The disagreements over sovereignty and the potential for conflict have only increased.

There is no question for the United States that the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty obligation extends to the Senkakus.