Randy Forbes: “This Administration, to my knowledge, has continued to say that there was nothing the Secretary of State could…”

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.

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.

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