Posted on 11/13/2015 2:45:59 PM PST by QT3.14
Last month the Pentagon sent a tough signal to its fastest-growing rival in Asia when a U.S. Navy warship sailed close by an artificial Chinese island in the contested waters of the South China Sea.
The message: The U.S. will stand by its allies as they confront China's increasingly muscular military.
This month, the Defense Department picked Joint Base Lewis-McChord for a friendlier exchange between the two world powers.
The Army is opening up the South Sound base for a weeklong exercise with its Chinese counterpart, the People's Liberation Army.
It's fairly small compared with some of the standard engagements that pull JBLM soldiers all over the Pacific. Only 80 Chinese soldiers are expected to visit JBLM.
But it's significant because it will be the first time ground-level Chinese soldiers visit an Army base in the continental U.S. for a military-to-military exercise.
(Excerpt) Read more at military.com ...
JBLM = Joint Black Lives Matter
Get tough, but bend over backwards not to.
What Could Possibly Go Wrong Ping.
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