They really thought they had it licked...but a lockdown in Auckland, the country's biggest city, has been revived as the first new domestic cases in 102 days have been documented.
Clearest evidence yet that Beijing envisions a likely near-future scenario where the two sides 'easily' stumble toward war through an unplanned live-fire incident.
"Satellite images show amphibious armored vehicles and mobile missile launchers massing at military bases near the island nation," reports New Zealand Herald.
Beijing's latest round of sanctions is part of an ongoing tit-for-tat battle between Beijing and the Trump Administration that has frayed the bilateral relationship and led to a surge in militaristic chest-thumping in the South China Sea, in the form of military exercises.
“If in 10 years, all American troops stationed in Europe for national defense purposes have not been returned to the United States, then this whole project will have failed.” - General Eisenhower, 1951
