Randy Forbes: “I think this is a country we need to have some real strategic clarity with.”

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

I do not see it as inevitable that we will have a confrontation with China in the South China Sea if we have the correct strategy to avoid such confrontation and potential conflict.

In the coming decades, this is the region where the largest armies in the world will camp.

I think reasonable people can have different views on it. My perspective is that the benefits of the Law of the Sea Convention do outweigh any sort of perceived risks.