“No enemy says, ‘I’m ready to go to Phase 2. You guys ready?'” Allvin said to laughter from the audience. “We have to be more nuanced. We need to be less mechanistic in our execution of these.”

PENTAGON: The kabuki of high-level international press conferences often successfully softens the sharp divisions that may lurk beneath the surface of the relationship between two countries. When those countries are a burgeoning China and a wary United States it’s almost impossible to hide all the differences and so it was at today’s press conference featuring… Keep reading →