This upcoming Sunday, the people of Venezuela will hold an election that, if legitimate, would put an end to years of the oppressive Maduro narco-regime. U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) issued a statement in support of the Venezuelan people: “The...
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Este próximo domingo, el pueblo venezolano tendrá una elección que, de ser legítima, pondría fin a años de opresión por parte del narco-régimen de Maduro. El senador estadounidense Marco Rubio (R-FL) grabó un mensaje de video en español y emitió una declaración en...
Rubio, Scott, Colleagues to Biden Admin: No Privileges Should Be Given to 9/11 Terrorist
Twenty-three years ago, the United States was attacked by Islamic terrorists on September 11, 2001. Now, Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person convicted in a U.S. court for his role in the attack, has requested the U.S. Department of Justice to allow a prisoner transfer...
Next Week: Rubio Staff Hosts Mobile Office Hours
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio’s (R-FL) office will host virtual Mobile Office Hours next week to assist constituents with federal casework issues in their respective local communities. These office hours offer constituents who do not live close to one of Senator Rubio’s...
Rubio, Colleagues Introduce Ensuring Continuity in Veterans’ Health Act
As the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) opens up new facilities, many veterans are losing access to the VA’s Community Care Program and, consequently, their long-term healthcare providers. Veterans throughout the country have reported a loss of care, including...
Rubio Introduces Bill to Strengthen U.S.-India Security Partnership
The U.S.-India partnership is vital to countering influences from Communist China. In order to strengthen this partnership, it is essential to enhance our strategic diplomatic, economic, and military relationship with New Delhi. U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL)...
Asia Needs a Strong U.S.-Japan Alliance
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to the United States this week highlights the potential of a new age of peace and prosperity in Asia. Under his leadership, Japan is revising its defense policies to become a more robust contributor to security in East Asia, working with partners to ensure that territorial disputes are resolved through the rule of law, and attempting to finalize the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact. These goals are shared by the United States and should have our full support.
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. From a starting point of bitter enemies dealing with the fallout from millions of deaths and immense destruction, the modern U.S.-Japan relationship has blossomed into one of America’s strongest alliances in the world.
Our alliance with Japan is key to a 21st-century Asia free and at peace. There are three pillars to an Asia policy for a new American century.
The first is ensuring that we maintain U.S. and allied defense capabilities that can resist the coercion or domination of Asia by an increasingly assertive and belligerent China. The second is an Asian-Pacific economy governed by free-market principles. And the third is the settling of disputes based on the rule of law, not usurpation of land, military expansionism and conflict. The U.S.-Japan alliance is at the center of all three pillars.
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The third pillar of our Asia policy should be ensuring that territorial disputes are settled in accordance with the rule of law and backed up, where necessary, by U.S. security commitments to our allies. Japan has modeled this restrained approach in its handling of Chinese military incursions around the Senkaku Islands. The United States and Japan need to work together to create a free and peaceful Asia where disagreements are settled through diplomacy and law, with the democratic assent of the disputants, not through provocative and ultimately counterproductive actions to expand territorial claims.
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