Mon Sep 20, 2021 – 3:11 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley last week responded to allegations that he assured his Chinese counterpart that the U.S. would not strike China without first giving warning regardless of any potential orders by then-President Donald Trump.
The general’s comments come after a statement released by the Pentagon Wednesday which also appeared to substantiate the claims that Milley had made the phone calls which some have argued amount to “treason.”
Speaking to reporters in Europe Friday, Milley said his communications with Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People’s Liberation Army were “routine calls in order to discuss issues of the day, to reassure both allies and adversaries in this case, in order to ensure strategic stability,” the Wall Street Journal reported.
Milley contended that such “routine calls” were “perfectly within the duties and responsibilities of the chairman.”
In his first public comments on the conversations, Gen. Mark Milley told @AP that calls he made to his Chinese counterpart in the final stormy months of Donald Trump’s presidency were “perfectly within the duties and responsibilities” of his job. https://t.co/qA1MUJUJmu
— The Associated Press
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