Tim Kaine actually said...

The stakes are too high to embark on any other course.

I think the U.S. strategy has been to just push that back a day at a time, a year at a time.

we should be less concerned about provoking China than we should be concerned about bolstering our friends, allies, and partners in the regi...

They recognize that Americans have wearied of bearing so much of the burden of being that guarantor of the free and open global system.