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Story by Jon Gefner • Yesterday 2:26 PM

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/beijing-is-telling-the-u-s-we-are-willing-to-die-to-the-last-chinese-for-taiwan-you-americans-are-not/ar-AA1cohAg?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=959c1862a530409eaa2b6ad714e0be1f&ei=8

“Beijing is telling the U.S.: ‘We are willing to die to the last Chinese for Taiwan. You Americans are not.’”©Provided by Clever Rebel

In Brief …

• China’s Navy vessel’s dangerous proximity to a US destroyer in Taiwan Strait raises global tensions.
• Council on Foreign Relations President Haass believes China aims to dissuade the US from pursuing interests in the Indo-Pacific by raising risk level.
• China sends mixed signals to US: Open to economic talks while raising the temperature on military-security issues.
• Haass says more US-China standoffs could have “incalcuable” economic consequences.

Richard Haas©Wikimedia

In a move that raised global tensions,a Chinese Navy vessel cruised within 150 yards of an American destroyer, causing a near collision in the Taiwan Strait. This provocative June 4th encounter comes on the heels of a Chinese fighter jet executing an “unnecessarily aggressive maneuver”…