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  • 6/6/2023
China takes pride in being a peaceful country. “We never started a conflict, occupied an inch of foreign land or waged a proxy war,” its defense minister, Li Shangfu, said at the Shangri-La Dialogue, a regional security summit in Singapore on Sunday.

But on that same day, when Li said that war with the U.S. poses an “unbearable disaster” for the world, the U.S. military released a video showing China making moves in the Taiwan Strait that would only seem to escalate the already rising tensions between the two superpowers.

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00:00 (inaudible)
00:24 (speaking in Chinese)
00:54 Broadly, as you know, the United States for many years
00:57 has routinely conducted operations in the Taiwan Strait
01:01 in accordance with international law
01:04 and in exercising the high seas freedoms
01:06 of navigation and oversight.
01:08 The United States upholds navigational rights
01:11 and freedoms and will continue to fly, sail,
01:13 and operate wherever international law allows.

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