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Last week, Chinese Air Force bombers were said to have conducted a mock attack on the USS Theodore Roosevelt Strike Group in the South China Sea. The aircraft involved were reported to be eight H-6K bombers, four J-16 fighter jets, and one Y-8 anti-submarine warfare aircraft. Of course, the media took the bait and portrayed this act by China as something novel.
But it really isn’t.
These cold war games China is playing accomplish two things. First, they further its long-standing strategic goal of controlling the Taiwan Straits and the South China Sea. Second, they create a distraction from its culpable negligence in unleashing COVID-19 on the entire planet.