achieving peace through strength has become our touchstone ever since bernhard baroque uttered those words after world war i and of course our president and greater general eisenhower adopted them as a central message of the campaign, and of course it was a central part of the campaign in 1980 and he acted on it once in office. i'm confident that talking with our allies we can create the conditions to build a new european security architecture that accommodates a security interest of all. to achieve this we don't need another reset but a rebel statement of how we will respond to any further russian aggression. this should apply to the relationship with china as well the clarity that we've shown is essentially no different from that which we have demonstrated towards china. the efforts to stake an outrageous claim control the entire south china sea and the seabed resource which is clearly not entitled r. stark violations of international rules and norms. these are efforts to the neighbors because of those efforts we now must stand firm and supportive of our pacific allies who may be t