| | ROTH TESTIMONY ON U.S. SECURITY POLICY IN ASIA-PACIFIC |
 | | The U.S. itself is as much a Pacific nation as an Atlantic one, with the states of Alaska, California, Oregon and Washington bordering on the Pacific ocean and Hawaii surrounded by it. |
 | | U.S. policy on PRC-Taiwan relations remains unchanged: the United States continues to support peaceful resolution of the Taiwan question and believes that cross-Strait dialogue provides the most promising mechanism through which to defuse tensions. |
 | | The U.S. has consistently supported meaningful, direct contacts between the ROK and the DPRK, and thus we are encouraged by the recent reinitiation of bilateral talks in Beijing. |
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