One of things we're trying to do is reestablish more normal military to military relations down the chain of command. You know, the Chinese are, the chairman is able to contact the president if there were crises. But, you know, The Chinese had removed peer-to-peer coordination, which makes the situation much more dangerous. And that's one of the things that we talked about. You know, I came away, you know, with sort of an overall paradigm that, you know, China is strong but brittle. (54:29–54:37)
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Asserts that China removed peer-to-peer military coordination, increasing danger.
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