They've toned down the Chinese COMMUNIST party rehetoric and using PRC. They even got Lindsay Graham to tone the fuck down.

https://www.woodtv.com/hill-politics/us-warns-it-will-defend-philippines-after-china-laser-report/

HOWEVER military jugheads are still trying to hype up CHINESE AGGRESSION against RULES BASED INTERNATIONAL LAW apparently over some dumb intentionaly grounded boat on a reef and BLINDING GREEN LASERS (remember that green space laser story?). Well just regular laser pointers in the excuse for massive increased US military agression and buildup citing some 1951 pact - aka upping the military budget. It's like we already have military bases in the Philippines.

This botched intel artistry that they attempted to (and kept congress and the Senate apparently in the dark about) bullshit the public to manufacture consent, got caught and flaired up an international crisis with a MAD nation. Whoever is pulling these hijinks is a danger to us all.

I hope Austin and Blinken get shitcanned.