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US Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr Kathleen Hicks participates in a Red Hill cross-level discussion with US Indo-Pacific Command leadership and the Environmental Protection agency at USINDOPACOM Headquarters, Hawaii, December 14, 2021. Photo: Reuters
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US Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr Kathleen Hicks participates in a Red Hill cross-level discussion with US Indo-Pacific Command leadership and the Environmental Protection agency at USINDOPACOM Headquarters, Hawaii, December 14, 2021. Photo: Reuters
US military commanders in the Pacific have built a software tool to predict how the Chinese government will react to US actions in the region like military sales, US-backed military activity and even congressional visits to hotspots like Taiwan.
Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks was briefed on the new tool during a visit to United States Indo-Pacific Command in Hawaii on Tuesday.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star’s Google News channel. The tool calculates “strategic friction,” a defense official said. It looks at data since early 2020 and evaluates significant activities that had impacted US-Sino relations. The computer-based system will help the Pentagon predict whether certain actions will provoke an outsized Chinese reaction.
In October, the Chinese military condemned the United States and Canada for each sending a warship through the Taiwan…
