


Though he boasts of a personal friendship with Xi, President Trump Donald Trump Anti-Asian hate crimes in NYC rose 361 percent: police New Jersey man receives two-year prison sentence for pandemic relief fraud Publicist linked to Kanye West pushed election worker to confess to Trump's fraud claims: Reuters MORE has likewise taken an adversarial stance toward Beijing, at least in economic terms, launching round after round of onerous tariffs on Chinese goods over the protests of American business owners and farmers. Some “80 percent-plus of inventory is intermediate range systems,” Esper said, “so that shouldn’t surprise them that we would want to have a like capability.” (Not mentioned was the reality that China and Russia are longtime adversaries who share a border, so its missiles-which cannot reach America - might not be about America.)
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Defense Secretary Mark Esper Mark Esper The Hill's Morning Report - Presented by Facebook - Biden to update Americans on omicron Congress back Former defense secretary Esper sues Pentagon in memoir dispute Overnight Defense & National Security - Presented by Boeing - Major Russia weapons test stokes tensions MORE said Friday he wants to deploy intermediate-range missiles to Asia, acknowledging the move would rile China and even framing it as a counter to Beijing. Should it also be the recipient of Washington’s antagonism?Ī rising chorus of voices from across the spectrum say yes. China has one-fifth of the planet’s population the world’s second largest economy a small but significant nuclear arsenal for deterrence and an increasingly repressive government which combines elements of market economics with single-party totalitarianism, incredibly invasive surveillance, mass internment camps and a newly minted “ president for life,” Xi Jinping.
