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Admiral Robert Girrier, deputy chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, will be our speaker tonight at the Providence Committee on Foreign Relations (thepcfr.org) monthly dinner.  We're pretty sure that he'll talk about how to counter Chinese expansionism in the South China Sea.

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