This is much less a win for transparency and democracy than it may at first seem. It’s business-as-usual politics in a country where civilian power is little more than wispy piece of gauze veiling military rule.
It is hard to imagine any other NATO member hosting ships from a navy that is busily building islands in South China sea—not to mention carrying out live-fire drills in the Mediterranean.
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