US-China military hotlines are reopening to prevent things like risky run-ins from triggering a full-blown crisis

A Chinese fighter jet conducting "a coercive and risky" intercept of a US aircraft over the South China Sea on June 23, 2022. US Defense Department The US and China will resume military-to-military communications, Biden announced Wednesday. The Pentagon had previously reported silence from Chinese…

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