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CCP Military Minister, Please Pick Up the Red Courtesy Phone
Amid rising geopolitical tensions, U.S. military officials can’t get their Chinese counterparts on the phone. What’s going on?
“Like, isn’t it weird China is ghosting us?” wondered journalist Nellie Bowles for The Free Press on Friday.
“I, for one, cannot believe that China would be anything but up front with us,” joked Bowles. “Here we give them the ability to plaster propaganda across our entire nation, asking for nothing in return except a phone call or two, and they can’t even give us that. Why staff the White House with so many communist interns if you can’t even get the Big Boss on the line?”
Bowles, one of the most readable fresh new talents currently being showcased by a growing contingent of quality independent journalism outlets, makes a good point behind her usual tongue-in-cheek humor.
“U.S.-Chinese military hotline hasn’t been restored a month after Biden-Xi summit,” as Courtney Kube and Carol E. Lee reported nervously for NBC News on December 11, 2023. “Last month, Biden declared the resumption of contacts a signature achievement. U.S. military officials say their Chinese colleagues haven’t been taking their calls.”
“Nearly a month after President Joe Biden announced that he and Chinese President Xi Jinping had agreed to…