Randy Forbes: “We have seen the error of our ways. We want to keep them in. We need them. We are going to modernize them.”

There is no legal authority to draw a big circle in the water a thousand miles long and then claim it as some sort of special zone or internal waters.

The threats to freedom of navigation that emanate from the South China Sea and reverberate globally are a great enough threat to the United States.

I believe, if we are to maintain our credibility in the region, if we are to sustain confidence in the rebalance to Asia, that it is extremely important for the Trans-Pacific Partnership to be ratified.

I am concerned that China's president and the Chinese Government may see President Obama's last few months as a window of opportunity for establishing an air defense identification zone [ADIZ], expanding reclamation activities to…