Obama (Probably) Just Made a Military Deal With the Chinese. We Have the Details.

What’s the takeaway from President Obama’s meetings with Chinese president Xi-Jinping?

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While the Obama administration has been trumpeting an agreement by both sides to limit greenhouse gas emissions, news reports suggest that an agreement also was reached to limit the prospects of military confrontation. This would entail prior notification to each other of military exercises, as well as yet another attempt to codify how the two sides should behave in the event of a close encounter. Direct comparisons have been made to the Cold War-era “Incidents at Sea” agreement between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Prior to the 1972 “INCSEA” agreement, U.S. and Soviet naval and air forces regularly confronted each other in dangerous maneuvers, leading to collisions and some deaths. Armed Soviet bombers flew over U.S. aircraft carriers and were often intercepted by armed U.S. fighters flying in close proximity. More...

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