What if Trump Ordered a Nuclear Strike on China? I’d Comply, Says Admiral<br />By AUSTIN RAMZYJULY 27, 2017<br />HONG KONG — The commander of the United States Pacific Fleet was asked a hypothetical question during a<br />talk on Thursday in Australia: If President Trump ordered a nuclear strike on China, would he comply?<br />Charlie Brown, a spokesman for the United States Pacific Fleet, said the premise of the question about using<br />nuclear weapons against China was "ridiculous," and not something Admiral Swift had raised himself.<br />In 2005, a Chinese military official told a group of foreign reporters<br />that Beijing should consider using nuclear weapons against the United States if it intervened in a conflict over Taiwan, the self-ruled island China considers part of its own territory.<br />At the time, Beijing called those maneuvers a "serious political<br />and military provocation." On Thursday, Britain’s foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, committed his country’s newest and largest aircraft carriers to steam through the South China Sea.<br />Johnson said that One of the first things we will do with the two new colossal aircraft carriers<br />that we have just built is send them on a freedom of navigation operation to this area,<br />Medcalf said that Admiral Swift answered the question the only way a serving military officer could,
