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soryang

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6. Encouraging the arms race in East Asia is a bad idea
Sat Feb 16, 2019, 10:34 AM
Feb 2019

Combined with Trump's merchantilism it's bound to have a bad outcome. The old gunboat diplomacy does nothing but spur China to create new weapon systems to counter surface warships. The same holds true for Russia but they cannot project power in East Asia the way the Chinese potentially can.

Freedom of navigation operations may appear routine but they aren't and present a threat of accidental confrontation and war.

Admirals shouldn't make foreign policy statements.

The notion that Taiwan is some kind of bulwark against Chinese "expansionism" is defective, just as reliance on Chiang Kai Shek during the 20th Century was delusional.

I'm surprised the Chinese still allow US ships to visit Hong Kong.

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