Pentagon Says Military-To-Military Talks With China Have Resumed

Dec 21, 2023 View Original Article
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    -2% Center

  • Reliability

    75% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    -8% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    12% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

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Overall Sentiment

17% Positive

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"Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin reportedly refused an invitation to attend a Beijing defense summit in October after, in late May, China's former defense minister Li Shangfu shued an offer to engage with him."
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8% Conservative
"President Joe Biden said he reached an agreement with Chinese President Xi Jinping to restore military communications after a November meeting of an economic group that took place in San Francisco."
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-6% Liberal
"The Chairman regularly communicates with Chiefs of Defense across the world and remains open to constructive dialogue with the PRC, the statement read."
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-6% Liberal
"The conversation could signal a renewal of open lines of communication, something the Biden administration worked for months to restore and sees as critical to avoiding accidents or miscalculation with the only great power competitor to the U.S.Gen. Brown discussed the importance of working together to responsibly manage competition, avoid miscalculations, and maintain open and direct lines of communication and reiterated the importance of the People's Liberation Army engaging in substantive dialogue to reduce the likelihood of misunderstandings, the statement read."
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4% Conservative
"President Joe Biden said he reached an agreement with Chinese President Xi Jinping to restore military communications after a November meeting of an economic group that took place in San Francisco."
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4% Conservative
"Secretary of State Antony Blinken had failed to work out an agreement with the Chinese foreign minister in June, one of his primary objectives during the trip to Beijing."
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-10% Liberal
"Brown also highlighted the need to hold talks through existing chaels Beijing had spurned, most of them since former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan in August of 2022."
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-10% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin reportedly refused an invitation to attend a Beijing defense summit in October after, in late May, China's former defense minister Li Shangfu shunned an offer to engage with him.
47% : President Joe Biden said he reached an agreement with Chinese President Xi Jinping to restore military communications after a November meeting of an economic group that took place in San Francisco.
47% : "The Chairman regularly communicates with Chiefs of Defense across the world and remains open to constructive dialogue with the PRC," the statement read.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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