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World International Affairs China South Korea China has expanded upon its first-ever frontline military hotline with a foreign force, South Korea, a U.S. ally wedged between the geopolitical rivalry of Washington and Beijing. Chinese Defense Ministry spokesperson Senior Colonel Tan Kefei announced Tuesday that the People's Liberation Army and Republic of Korea Armed Forces revised a November 2008 memorandum of understanding that established lines of communication between the navies and air forces of the two nations. "This current hotline is the first direct telephone link between the front-line troops of the Chinese military and a foreign military," Tan said, "which...
