{"id":117570,"date":"2021-09-17T14:41:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T18:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=117570"},"modified":"2021-09-17T14:41:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T18:41:01","slug":"general-milley-defends-china-calls-as-perfectly-acceptable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=117570","title":{"rendered":"General Milley defends China calls as &#8220;perfectly acceptable&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=117406\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-117406\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-117406\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/milley-432x333.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/milley-432x333.png 432w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/milley-300x231.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/milley-768x592.png 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/milley.png 879w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>General Milley described his calls to his Chinese phone counterpart as well within the duties and responsibilities of his job. These calls, according to the general, were needed to ensure strategic stability. He is due to testify before Congress regarding these phone calls. Milley stated that he will be more detailed during his interactions with members of Congress.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From the American Military News:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s best that I reserve my comments on the record until I do that in front of the lawmakers who have the lawful responsibility to oversee the U.S. military,&#8221; Milley said. &#8220;I&#8217;ll go into any level of detail Congress wants to go into in a couple of weeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to excerpts first revealed Tuesday from the forthcoming book entitled &#8220;Peril,&#8221; as reported by the Washington Post, the first phone call took place on Oct. 30, 2020, just four days before the presidential election between then-President Donald Trump and Joe Biden. The second call took place on Jan. 8, 2021, two days after the storming of the United States Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;General Li, I want to assure you that the American government is stable and everything is going to be okay,&#8221; Milley told the People&#8217;s Liberation Army general. &#8220;We are not going to attack or conduct any kinetic operations against you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;General Li, you and I have known each other for now five years. If we&#8217;re going to attack, I&#8217;m going to call you ahead of time,&#8221; Milley added. &#8220;It&#8217;s not going to be a surprise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After a number of lawmakers called for Milley to resign or be fired in the wake of the reports, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said on Wednesday that &#8220;the president has complete confidence in [Milley&#8217;s] leadership, his patriotism, and his fidelity to our Constitution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>President Biden later told reporters that he has &#8220;great confidence in Gen. Milley.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The American Military News has more details on this <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmilitarynews.com\/2021\/09\/gen-milley-defends-secret-calls-to-china-behind-trumps-back-as-perfectly-acceptable\/\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Milley described his calls to his Chinese phone counterpart as well within the duties and &hellip; <a title=\"General Milley defends China calls as &#8220;perfectly acceptable&#8221;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=117570\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">General Milley defends China calls as &#8220;perfectly acceptable&#8221;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117573,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117570\/revisions\/117573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}