WASHINGTON, April 17 -- Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member issued the following news release:
U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today gave the following opening remarks at a full committee hearing on modernizing U.S. alliances and partnerships in the Indo-Pacific. Witnesses included The Honorable Harry B. Harris Jr., former U.S. ambassador to South Korea and former commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, and Mr. Walter Russell Mead, professor of foreign affairs and humanities at Bard College and columnist at the Wall Street Journal.
Ranking Member Risch gave the following remarks:
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
"The United States has had a strategic interest in Asia bei...