President Donald Trump (left) and his chinese counterpart Xi Jinping (right) President Donald Trump (left) and his chinese counterpart Xi Jinping (right)The US Pacific Fleet commander said Thursday he would launch a nuclear strike against China next week if President Donald Trump ordered it, and warned against the military ever shifting its allegiance from its commander in chief. “The admiral was not addressing the premise of the question, he was addressing the principle of civilian authority of the military,” Brown said. It was monitored by a Chinese People’s Liberation Army-Navy Type 815 Dongdiao-class auxiliary general intelligence vessel from within Australia’s 200-mile exclusive economic zone. Swift said China had similarly sent an intelligence ship into the US exclusive economic zone around Hawaii during the Pacific Fleet-hosted multinational naval exercise in 2014. Governments needed to engage with Beijing to understand why the Chinese did not accept that the United States had the same access rights within China’s exclusive economic zone, Swift said.

Source: Indian Express July 27, 2017 09:10 UTC