Help, please At the same time that the United States is pushing the Open Door Policy, the U. S. is excluding the Chinese from entering America. Why is that ironic?

If something is ironic it's unexpected, often in an amusing way. If you're the world chess champion, it would be pretty ironic if you lost a match to someone who just learned to play yesterday. Ironic is the adjective for the noun irony. In the contemporary speech, when we call something ironic, we often mean sarcastic.

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answer-the island had airfields that the u.s. military needed.