High tensions mean communications are often difficult in the modern era, and countries have used a direct hotline as a way to keep things from spiraling out of control. Recently, the US and China are considering an updated version of the hotline to avoid catastrophes.
But US-China relations are at a multi-decade low, and distrust is such that intelligence and military officials are offering rather paranoid predictions of ways that China might abuse the hotline to deceive the US.
The biggest objection to the phone seems to be based on it being a phone, with retired Captain James Fanell, a former director of intelligence in the Pacific Fleet warning the US might feel dependent on the phone, and then have China “fail to answer” when there is a crisis.
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WNU Editor: I am more worried about the lack of hotlines between China and its neighbours more than the one between the US and China .... Asian Governments Need To Establish More Hotlines (February 11, 2014).
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Communist's regime like stability except when it come from their initiative long time prepared. Every new event is frightening for them because they are not prepared for that. Is it good or bad? Hard to answer: it could be fear and waiting or panic and no calculated action.
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