Randy Forbes: “Our treaty commitment to the Philippines is absolutely ironclad.”

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.

This country, this committee, this Congress needs to move back to strategic thinking where we have a comprehensive strategic plan.

I believe that we can inject enough doubts into the minds of China's leaders about its use in the scenarios we worry most about.

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…