WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Sen. Pete Ricketts issued the following press release:
Yesterday, U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE) participated in a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing where he discussed his work to combat the illegal, coercive, aggressive, and deceptive activities of Communist China in the Indo-Pacific. Ricketts highlighted how Communist China's maritime militia threatens undersea, critical infrastructure of regional allies.
"Russian research vessels and tankers [are] coincidentally stopping over critical infrastructure right as it fails. The Indo-Pacific has this problem, only it's magnified," said Ricketts. "You're not just seeing the actions of a few rogue ships, but you've got the Chinese maritime militia, which has a ...