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What China may have learned from Pearl Harbor

By Washington Examiner
Published January 2, 2024 3:52pm ET
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What China may have learned from Pearl Harbor
Military delegates arrive at the Great Hall of the People before the opening session of China's National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing. | (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

The best way to defeat an enemy is never to let it get to the battlefield in the first place. Japan tried to do that to the U.S. Navy at Pearl Harbor in 1941. No doubt Beijing will be thinking along the same lines as it attempts to keep the United States out of any fight over Taiwan.

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