Lloyd Austin

If we get it open, we want to get allies and partners involved in that because freedom of navigation is not just important to the United States of America.

It's important to the entire globe.

So we'd like to see an international effort if that's the case.

If we get it open, we want to get allies and partners involved in that because freedom of navigation is not just important to the United States of America.

It's important to the entire globe.

We have an interest in a transatlantic cooperation.

Europe has an interest in transatlantic cooperation.

So it's important to both of us.

I am hopeful and somewhat confident that NATO will not only sustain itself, but continue to grow.

I believe that if he could do it through coercion and demonstration of military capability, then he would do it that way.

If there's a fight in the Taiwan Strait or in the vicinity of the Taiwan Strait, it will have a much greater impact on the global economy than what we've seen in the Strait of Hormuz.

We have an interest in a transatlantic cooperation.

Europe has an interest in transatlantic cooperation.

So it's important to both of us.

I am hopeful and somewhat confident that NATO will not only sustain itself, but continue to grow.

I believe that if he could do it through coercion and demonstration of military capability, then he would do it that way.

If there's a fight in the Taiwan Strait or in the vicinity of the Taiwan Strait, it will have a much greater impact on the global economy than what we've seen in the Strait of Hormuz.

We have an interest in a transatlantic cooperation.

Europe has an interest in transatlantic cooperation.

So it's important to both of us.