10/18/2023
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"We will appreciate any insights on how U.S. engagement will contribute to stability in the region and counter China's malign influence on our friends and our allies."
"The PRC has adopted a strategy of disruption and destabilization aimed at what I am told by one of our witnesses has described as political and social entropy in small, vulnerable nations."
"In other words, collective resilience, we need to work together with our allies and our partners. That is how we strengthen our position."
"America has not forgotten the lessons of World War II and the Cold War."