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Neither President Harris nor President Trump means business. President Obama, who deployed THAAD in South Korea in 2016; President Bush, who sent planes to crash with a Chinese jet in the South China Sea in 2001; and President Clinton, who sent the seventh fleet to Taiwan during the third Taiwan strait crisis and bombed Chinese embassy in Belgrade in 1999, they mean business.
You're too consumed by the American culture war to realize the Chinese leadership doesn't care much about what Milley said. No one in Beijing expects Americans to be soft-hearted regardless of what you say. It matters what you do. And of course removing assets from East Asia to supply the Iran missions (especially considering how little damage Iranian missiles have made) means less business than the other way around. And of course appointing DEI hires or reverse DEI hires in the military means less business too.
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