Quote box: Trump talks tough on Asia trade, alliances

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has staked out uncompromising positions on Asia policy that are making foreign policy observers here and overseas uneasy.

Here's a selection of comments Trump has made during interviews, campaign speeches and debates:

[...] we have power over China because of trade, because they suck us dry, they take our money, they take our jobs, they take our everything, we lose hundreds of billions of dollars a year with China on trade.

[...] frankly if we ever stopped it (trade with China), believe me you'd see depression in China like you had never seen a depression before. —

If somebody attacks Japan, we have to immediately go and start World War III, okay?

Does that sound good? — Campaign speech in Hilton Head, South Carolina, Dec. 30, 2015