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Declaring your intentions while sharpening your weapons is never peaceful. It's already an act of aggression.

And I thought the current ROC line (at least, the leading party's line) has no interest in "One China".

Declaring peaceful intentions strikes me as the opposite of aggression.

In isolation. Saying it days after flying an air-to-ground-assault-capable wing of aircraft in the day, and a smaller strike force in the evening shows that it's nonsense.

You don't run operations against people you have peaceful intentions towards.

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