As President Trump told the U.N. yesterday that nations are entitled to put their own interests first, congressional testimony should shed light on one country, Communist China — that it is increasingly doing just that — at our expense.
The Navy’s top leaders will discuss four incidents this year, three of them crashes, that have sidelined U.S. Pacific-based warships as China escalates tensions in that ocean’s western waters. The hearing will surely expose serious problems with training, readiness and excessive demands on a fleet that is too small to perform its myriad, vital missions.
A recent Pentagon report, however, found that China is employing "coercive tactics, such as the use of . . . its maritime militia, to enforce maritime claims and advance its interests in ways . . . calculated to fall below the threshold of provoking conflict." The question occurs — Have those tactics had anything to do with these fatal collisions?
Frank Gaffney, Jr. is president of the Center for Security Policy (CSP), a columnist for The Washington Times, and host of the nationally syndicated program, Secure Freedom Radio. Read more reports from Frank Gaffney, Jr. — Click Here Now.