Posted on 08/13/2019 12:35:22 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
HONG KONG — China has denied a request for a U.S. warship to visit Hong Kong, American officials said Tuesday.
The incident came amid rising tensions between Beijing and Washington over tariffs and follows the U.S. last week imposing sanctions on China after it bought arms from Russia.
The USS Wasp, an amphibious assault ship, had been due to make a port call in the former British colony of Hong Kong in October, diplomatic sources told Reuters.
"The Chinese government did not approve a request for a U.S. port visit to Hong Kong by the USS Wasp," a spokeswoman for the U.S. consulate in the city said.
"We have a long track record of successful port visits to Hong Kong, and we expect that to continue," she added.
In Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang did not directly answer a question on whether China had denied the request.
"For requests for U.S. military ships to visit Hong Kong, China has always carried out approvals case by case, in accordance with the principle of sovereignty and the detailed situation," he told reporters, without elaborating.
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The UK mistake was trying to be all polite and sycophantic and bringing up lease renewal of the New Territories with the communists - who did not even hold the lease.
UK never thought the communists would say no, which was stupid. They didn’t have to ask at all.
Why? What the heck are those islands to us? Nothing over there is worth the life of a single Navy sailor or Marine.
And, after communists said no, the UK could have said and should have said that as member states in the UN, both nations know placing a colonial holding under another authority without allowing the colony self determination is a violation of the UN charter.
So they couldn’t “return” Hong Kong as that would be illegal under the charter both countries abide by and agree to as founding UN members.
Brits screwed up and then sold out Hong Kong.
Maybe they don’t want this to happen
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3767934/posts
There’ll be some disappointed brothel madams.
My thought exactly. Head for Taiwan. They like Americans and treat them well and honest. In Kaohsiung go straight away from the train station to First Christian Street about 2 blocks down. turn right for 7 blocks. See SPA 7A on building. Go up and get a great Thai massage. Strictly above board, no funny stuff or yellow color as they say.
No Liberty Call in Hong Kong.
Bummer.
It’s a great place to drink, eat and meet girls.
Fond memories...
“Why? What the heck are those islands to us? Nothing over there is worth the life of a single Navy sailor or Marine.”
Because the United States of America is a maritime nation and Freedom of the Seas is critically important to our economy. That’s why.
The ChiComs built those artificial islands in other countries’ territorial waters and there are a lot of countries that will ally with us to defend their territorial waters.
It should be noted that there are in fact Chicaps.
It is going to be interesting to see the result of Chicap actions found acceptable by the Chicoms for the simple reason the whole nation will fail absent continued Chicap business leaadership
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