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Taz watched Andi sober immediately before she started the translation.
“This is Captain Chen Bo of the People’s Liberation Army Air Force. I have been ordered by General Li Zuocheng to test Taiwan’s defenses with a solo intrusion of a Chengdu J-20. I am told that if they retaliate, the President says we are ready. I do this willingly to honor my country.”
“f**k me,” Holly sounded as if she’d just had the air kicked out of her gut.
Jeremy paused it, “That’s the first segment. He recorded that shortly after crossing the midline of the Taiwan Strait, though a hundred kilometers north of Taipei.”
“His tone,” Andi shook her head. “Play it again.”
Taz just didn’t know Mandarin. She had no ability to read the pilot’s mood.
Andi looked impossibly sad after the second playing. “He doesn’t
