Low expectations. Breakthroughs are unlikely. “The level of trust between the two military and wider national security establishments is at historic lows,” argued Lyle Goldstein, founder of the U.S. Naval War College’s China Maritime Studies Institute and currently director of Asia engagement at the Washington-based Defense Priorities think tank.
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