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He quoted the commander of the Chinese Navy, Adm. Wu Shengli, as saying in a speech to his naval colleagues, "We didn't expect President Xi would give us such robust support, we didn't expect our engineering capacity would be so strong, and we didn't expect the Americans would be so slow to react."..."
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