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The embattled Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, confirmed that he held secretive talks with China amid major political events in the United States. According to the forthcoming book “Peril” by Bob Woodward and Bob Costa, the general made two calls to Chinese general Li Zuocheng. The first of the unauthorized phone calls, made four days prior to the 2020 election, indicated that Milley would give advance warning to China in the event of a military attack, including a nuclear attack.“One call took place on Oct. 30, 2020, four days before the election that unseated President...

Former Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell is pouring cold water on new reporting from Bob Woodward, detailed in the Washington Post Tuesday, that General Mark Milley vowed to give China a heads up if President Donald Trump ordered an attack. He's also dismissing calls from Alexander Vindman, the "whistleblower" behind Trump's first impeachment over a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, for Milley to resign. From the Washington Post's reporting on Woodward's book: In the book’s account, Milley went so far as to pledge he would alert his counterpart in the event of a U.S. attack, stressing...