6 hours agoTop American general secretly summoned China for fear Trump would start the war
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(5 years ago)The top American general has secretly called his Chinese counterpart twice in the last few months of Donald Trump's mandate, for concerns that the American president may start a war with China because his possible loss in the election was on the horizon, according to a Washington Post report Tuesday. Mark Milley, [...]
Mark Milley, chief general of the US Army Staff, summoned General Li Zuoceng of the People's Liberation Army on October 30th 2020, four days before the presidential election, and again on January 8th, two days after Trump supporters launched an attack on the US Capitol, according to the American newspaper.
In the calls, Milhouse tried to convince Lee that the United States was stable and that he would not attack and, if there was an attack, that he would inform his colleague in advance, the report said.
The report is based on the book Peril, written by journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, which relies on interviews with 200 sources and will be published next week.
Milhouse's office refused to comment, while Trump's representatives cannot be contacted, the paper writes.
Trump named Milley in the top military post in 2018, but began to criticise him, as he did most of his subordinates, after losing his election against Democrat Joe Biden in November and left the White House on January 20th.
Milley was motivated to contact Beijing for the second time in part after a call from the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who asked the general what safeguards were set to prevent the unstable “president from starting a nuclear attack, under a transcript of call.
He's crazy. You know he's crazy,” told Pelosi Milley on the phone.
According to the call transcript, the general replied: “
