Tell me again why we trade with the chicoms?
How about turning away 10 random Chinese container ships from U.S. ports for every one that hides its transponder?
“It’s incredibly dangerous and irresponsible behavior.”
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That may be but until there are some kind of consequences China has no reason to stop doing this.
They could be dark in an area where someone runs a “dark” weapons test.
Be a shame if those ships disappeared completely. A real shame...
especially if there's a US warship within 10 miles, ready to collide.
Just sink the tankers every time they show up in Iranian ports.
I am certain that the US has the ability by satellite to automatically track any ship above a certain size 24x7x365 automatically once it has been flagged by an analyst. And no, clouds and weather do not pose a problem.
Mining Iranian ports would take care of the problem. No need to worry about transponders.
So, if an errant torpedo or air-to-ground missile happens to hit a ship (or 10) with no transponder, then that’d just be a terrible, but easily-avoidable, accident.
Just sayin’.
The Chinese Flagged LeBron James went dark a few days ago.
I would think if the Chinese were so damned interested in signing a trade deal they wouldn’t do such things as obviously cutoff their transponders to avoid detection in dealing with the Iranians under sanction by the U.S.
Are the Chinese stupid, or are they flipping DJT the bird, because the Democrats are advising them to do so with the upcoming election they think they are going to make advances.
I guess either way they are showing us signs of stupid.
I’m just fed up with the games they’re playing and we seem to continue to play along.
Our government needs to wake up. Raise those tariffs.
Black Sails. Isn’t that the way the olde-timey smugglers did it?
Chicoms wouldn’t be cheating....would they? Lebron thinks they’re wonderful people.
We are the Chicoms b*tch.
This should be added to Trump’s “trade” negotiations, and keep them unfinished until this issue is satisfied.
The Chinese ships are in need of some Somalian sailors.