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  • PACIFIC.

  • NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT

  • JENNIFER GRIFFIN TELLS US ABOUT

  • A REINFORCED MESSAGE TO CHINA.

  • >> THE UNITED STATES MILITARY

  • HAS HAD A LOT OF EXPERIENCE IN

  • THE WESTERN PACIFIC TAKING ON

  • SMALLER ISLANDS.

  • >> A NOT SO VEILED WARNING TO

  • CHINA TO BUILD UP SECURITY IN

  • THE CHINA SEA.

  • SHOWING CHINA HAS PLACED NEW

  • SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILES IN THE

  • SPRATLY, AND RECENTLY LANDED

  • NUCLEAR CAPABLE BOMBERS ON WOODY

  • ALLEN.

  • CHINA CALLS THE ACCUSATION

  • RIDICULOUS.

  • DEFENSE SECRETARY JIM MATTIS

  • WILL REASSURE ALLIES THAT THE

  • U.S. WILL NOT ALLOW CHINA TO

  • SPREAD ITS INFLUENCE UNCHECKED.

  • >> THERE HAD BEEN A PROMISE IN

  • 2015 BY PRESIDENT XI WHERE HE

  • STATED THAT THEY WOULD NOT BE

  • MILITARY RISING THE ISLANDS.

  • WE HAVE SEEN THAT THEY HAVE DONE

  • EXACTLY THAT.

  • >> HAD A CHANGE OF COMMAND

  • CEREMONY IN HAWAII, THE OUTGOING

  • HEAD OF U.S. PACIFIC HORSES,

  • ADMIRAL HARRY HARRIS, ISSUED

  • ANOTHER WARNING.

  • >> CHINA REMAINS THE BIGGEST

  • LONG-TERM CHALLENGE, WITHOUT

  • FOCUS, INVOLVEMENT, AND

  • ENGAGEMENT BY THE UNITED STATES

  • AND OUR ALLIES AND PARTNERS,

  • THEY WILL REALIZE A GEMINI IN A

  • JOB.

  • WE SHOULD COOPERATE WITH BEIJING

  • WHERE WE CAN, BUT STAND READY TO

  • CONFRONT THEM WHEN WE MUST.

  • >> THE U.S. HAS STEPPED UP

  • OPERATIONS TO COUNTER CHINA,

  • SENDING NAVAL VESSELS NEAR THE

  • MAN-MADE ISLANDS THIS PAST

  • WEEKEND.

  • AND MATTIS ANNOUNCES HE HAS

  • CHANGED THE NAME OF PAY COMMS TO

  • END OPAQUE CALM, A SHOT ACROSS

  • THE BOW AT CHINA THAT FEELS

  • THREATENED BY WAY RIVAL INDIA.

  • IT SERVES AS A BACKDROP TO

  • POTENTIAL NORTH KOREA TALKS.

  • >> THE 27 YEAR HOLIDAY FROM

  • HISTORY IS OVER.

PACIFIC.

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五角大樓警告不要在南海進行軍事集結。 (Pentagon warns against military buildup in South China Sea)

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    Hualien posted on 2021/01/14
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