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Posted on 06/05/2015 7:08:37 PM PDT by Whenifhow
China has begun dispatching surveillance vessels off the coast of Hawaii in response to theNavy's monitoring activities of disputed islands in the South China Sea, according to the Taiwan newspaper Want China Times.
The purported surveillance comes on the heels of raised tensions between China and the United States late last month. A Navy P-8A Poseidon surveillance plane was flying over the Spratly Islands near the Philippines and Malaysia when a Chinese radio dispatcher warned it several times to depart the airspace.
China has been enlarging some of the uninhabited atolls by dredging up sand from the sea bottom, claiming it has sovereignty of the islands and the airspace above.
U.S. officials say China has placed artillery on the expanded islands and have called for its removal.
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China raised eyebrows during the Rim of the Pacific naval exercise in Hawaii last July. Invited for the first time, it brought two ships but also sent a surveillance ship that monitored the multilateral exercise from afar.
At the time, U.S. Pacific Command head Adm. Samuel Locklear III described the spying "a little odd" but essentially "good news" because it indicated an acceptance by the Chinese "that military operations and survey operations in another country's [maritime zones] are within international law and are acceptable, and this is a fundamental right that nations have." Locklear's new replacement, Adm. Harry Harris, took a harder-edged tack in regard to China's sweeping claims of islands in the South China Sea, calling them "preposterous" during his change-of-command ceremony last week.
Late last month, China released a defense white paper that pledged to shift its navy's focus to "open seas protection" and away from strictly defending waters off the mainland.
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Anyone recall us MAKING Hawaii...?
I can’t see how the two are really the same.
The Russians (soviets) use to do this all the time.
I hope they send back good reports about Hawaii- we haven’t had any offers and can really use the money.
and in the mean time Hawaii is flooded with Chinese ‘tourists’ . I am sure it’s ‘just a coincidence ‘ and they don’t mean any harm . Rented cars , free to poke around wherever they want to ; Barking Sands , Pearl Harbor/ Hickam , Pohakuloa Training Area ..... Top of the line cameras too ! Nice long lenses . As ‘tourists’ explore the USS Missouri in Pearl Harbor , they are told “ not to take photos of across the bay “ ( the Pearl docks ) I’m sure they would never think of it .
ps: at Midway we were looking for ‘them’ coming . Now days no one even cares .
A similar analogy would be for us to draw a line from the westernmost Aleutian island to Hawaii, then to Guam, then to California, and then declaring all the water in between to be "ours."
Anyone recall us MAKING Hawaii...? Well, yes, yes we did and in almost the same way the Chinese did. Tern Island, was formed out of blasted and dredged coral to form an aircraft carrier shaped island for WWII pilots to practice on. The Coast Guard used it for a LORAN station, and now the fish and feathers guys use it for something else.
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