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US prepared to address ‘aggressiveness’ of Chinese military (archive.ph)

submitted 1 year ago by Tretiak@lemmy.ml to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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[–] finickydesert@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Should I trust the financial times on this?

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The FT report of US stance is most likely correct, though point is that US forces are travelling thousands of miles to do shows of force near China and then accuse China of being aggressive.

[–] Tretiak@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reminds me of the term “defend forward” in the NSA’s lexicon. Made me laugh my ass off when I first heard it.

[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

It's literally doublespeak, lol.