call to the chinese was done after then defense secretary mark esper respected his policy people to do the same. it was designed to lower the temperature and prevent the u.s. and china from stumbling into a conflict. u.s. intelligence suggested chinese were jumpy about all the noise coming out of washington surrounding the election. no time did general milley promise to give the chinese a heads-up if the u.s. planned to strike, i'm told. there were 15 people present during the two video teleconference calls, one in october and one after the january 6 riot, including notetakers. i'm told by u.s. command sources that then defense secretary mark esper was so concerned about not spooking the chinese, he asked for delay in sending significant number of ships and war planes to the region around the time of the election for a december exercise. the pentagon did not want to demonstrate aggressiveness or
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