{"id":31526,"date":"2018-02-23T19:05:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T00:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31526"},"modified":"2018-02-23T19:05:24","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T00:05:24","slug":"how-china-could-freeze-the-us-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31526","title":{"rendered":"How China Could Freeze the US Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalman.com\/\/articles\/how-china-could-freeze-the-us-military\">How China Could Freeze the US Military<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"im-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d24g2nq85gnwal.cloudfront.net\/images\/authors\/China_US.JPG\" alt=\"How China Could Freeze the US Military\" \/><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\" class=\"margin_top_25\">\n<p>Last April, President Trump launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles into Syria.<\/p>\n<p>He was responding to an alleged chemical weapons attack by Bashar al-Assad\u2019s Syrian government.<\/p>\n<p>It was Trump\u2019s most dramatic military move since he became president. It was also the United States\u2019 first deliberate attack on the Syrian government.<\/p>\n<p>At the exact moment he ordered the strike, Trump was also hosting China\u2019s president, Xi Jinping, for dinner at Mar-a-Lago, Trump\u2019s Florida resort. Xi\u2019s wife was also there.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said:<\/p>\n<p>I was sitting at the table. We had finished dinner. We are now having dessert. And we had the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you have ever seen. And President Xi was enjoying it. And I was given the message from the generals that the ships are locked and loaded. What do you do? And we made a determination to do it. So the missiles were on the way. And I said: \u2018Mr. President, let me explain something to you\u2026 we\u2019ve just launched 59 missiles\u2026 heading toward\u00a0Syria\u00a0and I want you to know that.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>When asked how President Xi responded, Trump claimed: \u201cHe paused for 10 seconds and then he asked the interpreter to please say it again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>The timing of the attack was meant to intimidate Xi and send China a message.<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\nYou see, China and Syria are allies. The Chinese give Assad\u2019s government diplomatic, military, and economic support. China has also used its veto power at the UN several times to support Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, Trump invited President Xi and his wife to his home for dinner. Then, over cake, he bombed one of Xi\u2019s friends.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How China Could Freeze the US Military Last April, President Trump launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles into Syria. He was responding to an alleged chemical weapons attack by Bashar al-Assad\u2019s Syrian government. It was Trump\u2019s most dramatic military move since he became president. It was also the United States\u2019 first deliberate attack on the Syrian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3218,130,7844,6228,11725,2006,776,827,844,6392],"class_list":["post-31526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-bashar-al-assad","tag-china","tag-donald-trump","tag-international-man","tag-nick-giambruno","tag-north-korea","tag-syria","tag-united-states","tag-us-military","tag-xi-jinping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31527,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31526\/revisions\/31527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}