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🚨🇨🇳🇺🇸 China’s biggest weakness is lack of real combat experience. Admiral Mark Montgomery says the U.S. combines live combat with high-stress war simulations. He suggested China has neither at the same level, making them far weaker in any potential confrontation over Taiwan. Mark Montgomery

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