How can you cite provocation to hold a drill, unless the "drill" is an attempt at intimidation? Drills are done by the military, in secret, to prepare for war,

How can you cite provocation to hold a drill, unless the "drill" is an attempt at intimidation? Drills are done by the military, in secret, to prepare for war, not blasted with a PR pitch to a sympathetic news organization willing to repeat the demands of terrorists and totalitarians. The PRC's aggressive disregard for the exclusive economic zones of it's neighbors, paired with backing Russia's travesties in the Ukraine have has erased any goodwill that their refusal to participate in the Iraq War may have generated over ten years ago. It is now utterly transparent that their goal is to greedily gobble up the foundries of those who invent their own technology rather than steal it and invest those R&D savings in weapons they can then leverage to further coerce the smaller and more vulnerable.