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A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman pushed back on Wednesday against assertions by Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, who is President-elect Donald J. Trumps choice for national security adviser, that China was allied with radical Islamists.
The spokesman, Lu Kang, was asked at a regularly scheduled news conference in Beijing about Mr. Flynns accusations, which were made in a book released in July that he wrote with a co-author, The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies.
I hope everyone who takes a responsible attitude and is devoted to safeguarding China-U.S. relations and boosting China-U.S. cooperation can base their opinions on facts when taking a position, Mr. Lu said. Only in this way can mutual trust be enhanced.
Mr. Flynn has said the United States must lead a global campaign against radical Islam. He has on occasion pushed conspiracy theories. For example, after the attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012, he kept asking intelligence officers working under him at the Defense Intelligence Agency in the Pentagon to look for involvement by Iran in the assault. There was no evidence of any ties to Iran.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/07/world/asia/michael-flynn-trump-china-islamists.html
That's the kind of thinking that led us into Iraq with the same kind of incompetent and conspiracy theory pushing staff.
Where would a Trump administration lead this country?
RKP5637
(67,102 posts)will see money in it, and as usual, youth will be sent to die or be maimed by war propaganda, do it for your country. And likely we will have the my gun is bigger than yours, and the deplorables will be happy.
DK504
(3,847 posts)I hope Jina slaps these idiots into 2020.