>> i have great confidence in general milley. >> the unnamed sources in the book said general milley told his chinese counterpart that he would give him a heads-up in the u.s. planned to strike. the officials say this is taken out of context and needs to be understood to chinese leaders that the u.s. was surprising a surprise attack, which they were not. a former defense official said it was done after mark esper said his civilian policy members do the same. u.s. intelligence at the time suggested the chinese were jumpy about all of the nice coming out of washington surrounding the u.s. election. u.s. pacific command sources tell fox then defense secretary esper was so concerned about not speaking the chinese that he asked for a delay in sending a