Beijing Exploits Pandemic to Probe the South China Sea

Beijing Exploits Pandemic to Probe the South China Sea
The USS Theodore Roosevelt anchors off the coast in Gosport, England, on March 23, 2015. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
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This week the Pentagon acknowledged that the coronavirus pandemic—which President Donald Trump has correctly called a plague—has affected U.S. military operations.

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Austin Bay is a colonel (ret.) in the U.S. Army Reserve, author, syndicated columnist, and teacher of strategy and strategic theory at the University of Texas–Austin. His latest book is “Cocktails from Hell: Five Wars Shaping the 21st Century.”
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