Foreign Affairs committee  The regional comprehensive economic partnership will do good things for the ties among ASEAN+6. That can translate into one of two things. Either it will create an outcome in which there is such interdependency that conflict over the South China Sea is anathema and no one will th

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm just looking at the clock to see how long I have to answer this. There's a lot there. The China-Japan relationship turns on a lot of things. They have a territorial dispute between the two of them. Japan, as a user of the South China Sea, is very worried about what the Chine

Foreign Affairs committee  Thanks, Chair, and thanks for having me, everyone. This is obviously an issue of great importance. I'm going to limit my remarks to a high-level overview of the region's security landscape, and if I leave anything out, we can take it up in the Q and A, because it's a very big re