美军称努力对华合作但会做最坏打算

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黎堡, 美军称努力对华合作但会做最坏打算. VOA Chinese, May 17, 2016
http://www.voachinese.com/conten ... 160517/3334474.html

My comment:
(a) The title is a bit startling. Yet the text does not say where the statement was made, and in what occasion. In part, this is because I saw this report about 5 pm EDT today (when I came to use the computer). And the symposium was scheduled to last 1-5 pm today. See (c) below.
(b) There is no news report on this.
(c) Luckily I find the when (what time today), where and what. See

ICAS Spring Symposium. ICAS Liberty Foundation, May 10, 2016.
www.icasinc.org/2016/2016s/2016ssym.html
(d) ICAS stands for The Institute for Corean-American Studies, whose mailing address is "965 Clover Court, Blue Bell, PA 19422."
(i) Korea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea
(section 5 Etymology: "Korea" is the modern spelling of Corea)
(ii) After a namesake inn (The inn Blue Bell conferred the name to the place), Blue Bell is a census-designated place about 12 miles (air distance) north of Philadelphia.

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Jane Perlez, 提防中国，他要求美军做好 '今夜开战' 准备. 纽约时报中文网, May 9, 2016
http://cn.nytimes.com/asia-pacific/20160509/c09harris/

, which is translated from

Jane Perlez, A US Admiral's Bluntness Rattles China, and Washington. New York Times, May 6, 2016 (in the column "The Saturday Profile" that appears every Saturday).
www.nytimes.com/2016/05/07/world ... l-harry-harris.html

Quote:

"Admiral Harris makes no apologies for his candor, which has unsettled a more cautious White House.

"He was born in Japan, the son of a Japanese mother and an American father who was a chief petty officer in the American Navy. The Chinese have zeroed in on his ethnicity as a mode of attack.

"How boldly China reacts to the ruling [by a United Nations tribunal in The Hague] is a major concern for Admiral Harris, whose task is to recommend military options should China push forward

"To defend American interests, he said, 'I have to do it with the tools I have, and they are military tools, and they are great tools.'  'In the China piece, we just have to be ready for all outcomes from a position of strength,' Admiral Harris said, 'all outcomes whether it is Scarborough, South China Sea in general, or some cyberattack.'

Note:
(a) "When his family moved back to rural Tennessee, his mother refused to teach him Japanese, insisting that her son was 100 percent American. In that vein, the admiral does not make much of the fact that he is the first Asian-American to be appointed a combatant commander."

vein (n): "[IN SINGULAR] A distinctive quality, style, or tendency  <he closes his article in a somewhat humorous vein>"
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/vein

(b) "he [Harris] sat on a couch in his expansive office[:] 'I will say I'm a military guy. I look through the lenses darkly, and that's what I'm paid to do.' "
(i) 1 Corinthians 13
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Corinthians_13
(section 3 Through a glass, darkly)
(ii) William Harris (Professor Emeritus), St Paul, 1 Corinthians 13; Interpretations and Re-interpretation. Middlebury, Vermont: Middlebury College, undated
http://community.middlebury.edu/ ... es/Corinthians.html
(the first two paragraphs only)

(c) "The job of a United States combatant commander — there are nine across the globe — is to serve as soldier, diplomat and an advocate of his theater to just two bosses, the president and the defense secretary."
(i) Admiral Harry Binkley Harris, Jr (1956- ; currently serves as Commander, United States Pacific Command (CDRUSPACOM [where CDR = commander and USPACOM = US Pacific Command); is the first Asian-American to achieve the rank of Admiral in the US Navy)  en.wikipedia.org
(ii) Unified Combatant Command
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Combatant_Command
(the globe is divided into nine "areas of responsibility")

(d) "The admiral talks about how his forces must be ready 'to fight tonight.' One of his recent reads, 'This Kind of War,' by TR Fehrenbach, about the Korean War, drove that point home. 'He says the United States was not ready,' he said."
(i) TR Fehrenbach, This Kind of War; A study in unpreparedness, Macmillan, 1963.
(ii) TR Fehrenbach
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._R._Fehrenbach
(TR = Theodore Reed; 1925-2013; an American historian)