China's Nine-Dashed Line was deemed an unlawful maritime claim by an arbitral tribunal convened under the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention in July 2016, a position shared by the U.S. government.
The United States will not tolerate the P.R.C.'s (People's Republic of China) violations of our sovereignty and intimidation of our people, just as we have not tolerated the P.R.C.'s unfair trade practices, theft of American jobs and other egregious behavior.
President Trump insists on fairness and reciprocity in U.S.-China relations.
We have directed the closure of P.R.C. Consulate General Houston, in order to protect American intellectual property and American's private information.
What we're trying to do is to look at the Chinese Communist Party and Chairman Xi for who they really are.
The United States is deeply concerned by Turkey's announced intentions to begin offshore drilling operations in an area claimed by the Republic of Cyprus as its Exclusive Economic Zone.
We want to have diplomatic engagement with the North Koreans.
What would be most productive is for Chairman Kim and his staff and for President Trump and all his staff to continue upon the path that was laid out for us both in Vietnam and at the DMZ, and that is a diplomatic resolution and the end of North Korea's nuclear weapons.
The United States welcomes China's commitment to engage in arms control negotiations.
Manufacturing evidence to justify arbitrary, politically motivated detentions is a common tool of the illegitimate former Maduro regime.
The continued erosion of the one country, two systems framework puts at risk Hong Kong's long-established special status in international affairs.
Iran must stop all proliferation-sensitive activities, including uranium enrichment, and we will not accept actions that support the continuation of such enrichment.
I'm from Florida and we have huge primary contests there.
The stealing of American research, of course, ultimately takes American jobs.
American diplomats meet with formal government officials, we meet with opposition protesters, not just in Hong Kong or China. This literally happens in every single country in which an American embassy is present.
If 2016 taught us anything, it's that President Trump's political prowess should not be discounted or underestimated.
A divided government doesn't have to be a death blow to foreign policy.
Take a lesson from President Obama, and don't go around Congress. When given the opportunity to work with lawmakers on the Iran nuclear deal and the Paris climate agreement, Obama chose to forgo the hard fight of treaty ratification and instead ruled by executive order. And now the United States is party to neither pact.
The foreign policy community in Washington has been arguing that America must put our values at the head of our foreign policy once again - and I couldn't agree more, so let's start by leading on women.
