The US response to China (catch all)

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Is it my sick and twisted imagination, or does Popular Science have a love for all weapons Chinese?

Popular Science isn't as hard-core as it was in our youth.

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An economist who believes that Chinese goods are literally poisoning Americans, advocates ending Washington's "One China" policy and says trade deals have weakened the United States economically with the connivance of U.S. business has emerged as the big winner from renewed turmoil in the White House.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKCN1GJ2TU

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Cross-thread traffic time.
http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...l=1#post211271

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The West may be too late to stop Beijing in S. China Sea, says analyst
The Pentagon warns Beijing is continuing to destabilize one of the most contested regions in the world. Senior Lowy Institute Fellow Sam Roggeveen speaks with News Stream.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2018/0...-china-sea.cnn

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Indicators

SINGAPORE — Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis harshly criticized the Chinese government on Saturday for its continuing militarization of a string of islands in the South China Sea, calling the new presence of advanced military equipment and missiles there a flagrant show of military power.

“Despite China’s claims to the contrary, the placement of these weapons systems is tied directly to military use for the purposes of intimidation and coercion,” Mr. Mattis said during a speech on Saturday at the annual Shangri-La Dialogue, a regional security conference.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/w...china-sea.html

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WASHINGTON/TAIPEI (Reuters) - Two U.S. warships passed through the Taiwan Strait on Saturday on a voyage that will likely be viewed in the self-ruled island as a sign of support by President Donald Trump amid heightened tension with China. "Two U.S. Navy ships conducted a routine transit through the international waters of the Taiwan Strait on July 7-8 (local time)," Captain Charlie Brown, a spokesman for U.S. Pacific Fleet, told Reuters in a statement.

"U.S. Navy Ships transit between the South China Sea and East China Sea via the Taiwan Strait and have done so for many years," Brown said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-warship...021648932.html

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The U.S. State Department has issued a request for U.S. Marines to be stationed in Taiwan for the protection of diplomatic personal in Taipei, according to CNN. The request comes as China ramps up military exercises in the Taiwan Straits amid a looming trade war with the U.S.

https://taskandpurpose.com/marines-taiwan-china-mattis/

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China is waging a 'quiet kind of cold war' against US, top CIA expert says

Beijing doesn't want to go to war, a top CIA expert on Asia said, but the current communist government, under President Xi Jinping, is subtly working on multiple fronts to undermine the U.S. in ways that are different than the more well-publicized activities being employed by Russia.

"I would argue ... that what they're waging against us is fundamentally a cold war -- a cold war not like we saw during THE Cold War (between the U.S. and the Soviet Union) but a cold war by definition," Michael Collins, deputy assistant director of the CIA's East Asia mission center, said at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/21/us-c...gainst-us.html