Three US Navy aircraft carriers are patrolling the Pacific Ocean at the same time. And China's not happy

CNN ^ | June 15, 2020 | Brad Lendon

[Tai_Chung]

The Reagan returned to sea in late May after crew members were placed under restricted movements at its home port in Japan to ensure it deployed without any Covid-19 cases. It has also been loaded with more than 1,000 tons of ordnance -- "enough combat power to cause the ship to sit five inches lower on the waterline," a US Navy statement said.

[teeman8r]

they are just upset that the Reagan is back at sea.

their aircraft carrier, the mousy tongue, is barely able to leave the sea of japan... er, china sea.

[TangledUpInBlue]

Too effing bad

[arthurus]

China’s “interest in the region” is the assumption of a Chinese sphere of interest in all of Asia, the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific. For now.

[Tai_Chung]

"By massing these aircraft carriers, the US is attempting to demonstrate to the whole region and even the world that it remains the most powerful naval force, as they could enter the South China Sea and threaten Chinese troops on the Xisha and Nansha islands (Paracel and Spratly islands) as well as vessels passing through nearby waters, so the US could carry out its hegemonic politics,"

China received the message loud and clear. Trump isn't the type to use "diplomatic ambiguity"

[null and void]

their aircraft carrier, the mousy tongue, is barely able to leave the sea of japan... er, china sea.

Eh?

I thought it was called the mousy dung?

[mylife]

Eff em!

[Herakles]

as a Nimitz reactor designer and a nuke engineering officer on that plant, anyone of those ships could put China back to the stone age. This maybe what the Chinese are concerned about.

But thinking about it, a million degrees of heat is the only sure way to decon a bio-weapons lab.

[Harpotoo]

It’s called a show of force and while the kids are playing Lord of the Fleas here Trump is telling the PRCs the ADULTS are still in charge!

[GOPJ]

China needs to stop stealing intellectual property from the rest of the world.

[katana]

“Massing”? Battles of Coral Sea and Midway saw “massed” carriers, within sight of each other, both sides, with hundreds of nautical miles between the two fleets. Three carriers in different sectors of the Pacific Ocean aren’t “massed”. CNN is truly the fifth column, among several, that sooner or later will need to be dealt with.

[ontap]

One doesn't have to deal with their carrier to stop it....just sink the oiler!!!!

[kingu]

I wonder if their unhappiness is being reflected in the massive T-Mobile/Sprint, AT&T and Verizon cell phone outage right now...

[Gay State Conservative]

Hopefully they’re sailing through the disputed waters daily...as well as overflying those areas daily.

[Gay State Conservative]

Is Verizon out? Gotta check now.

[timestax]

THIS IS CNN-DNC

WE LOVE TO LIE, AND IT SHOWS!

WE BIG BULLIES AND PROUD OF IT.

[timestax]

[Spirochete]

China’s oil lifeline runs through the Indian Ocean. How many carriers do we have there?

[Secret Agent Man]

unhappy they couldn’t coronavirus infect all three of them

[MeganC]

The Bandits of Beijing can kiss my ass!!!