CABINET/REX TILLERMAN/SECRETARY OF STATE: "…Rex Tillerson, selected as secretary of state, casually declared that America would block Chinese access to bases in the South China Sea, apparently unaware that he was in effect threatening to go to war if China called his bluff."
– “Donald the Unready,” The New York Times online, Jan. 20, 2017, Paul Krugman, 1/20/2017