Posted on 11/24/2007 12:26:07 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
(Hong Kong = Yonhap News) Chung Ju-ho = Ming Bao of Hong Kong reported on Nov. 24 that large-scale Naval Exercise by PLAN is a reason why China refused U.S. carrier Kitty Hawk's scheduled stay in Hong Kong for a while.
According to sources, PLAN's Eastern and Southern Fleet conducted large-scale joint military exercise recently in the area of Pacific east of Taiwan, and north of Philippines, practicing hypothetical blockade of Taiwan.
Russian-made missile frigates and submarines, 022 stealth missiles, and anti-ship cruise missiles were all deployed in this exercise, while China's indigenously developed AWACS were reportedly spotted in the sky above Nanjing.
Airspace control of eastern and southern coastal area, which will end on Nov. 25, is also said to be related to this naval exercise. Since Nov. 20, airspace control has been in effect in the sky over cities of eastern coast, resulting in hours of delay of local air flights.
Sources reportedly said that, during the exercise, some Chinese ships ran into Kitty Hawk's battle group in the international waters, sailing toward Hong Kong.
Kitty Hawk was due to enter Hong Kong on the morning of Nov. 21 in time for Thanksgiving Day holidays starting Nov. 22, but China refused it at the last minute without any explanation. Then they reversed their decision on Nov. 22, allowing the entry.
Admiral Timothy Keating, Commander, U.S. Pacific Command, said Chinese decision is "dismaying and worrisome," and China had refused entry of another U.S. Navy ships a few days before.
Two torpedo removal ships of U.S. Navy reportedly ran into bad weather in South China Sea at the time and asked the stay in Hong Kong and fuel supply but China refused.
In short, China wanted to hide the details of their naval exercise and combat capability by refusing the stay of Kitty Hawk in Hong Kong, whose battle group boasts sophisticated information-gathering ability.
Despite China's change of the decision, Kitty Hawk has already returned to Yokosuka, Japan, and its 8,000 sailors had to spend Thanksgiving Day on board on Nov. 22.
The bottom line, the ChiCom's are lying enemies....
BTW, learning something about carrier battle group port calls in Hong Kong would have prevented you from exposing yourself as an even bigger screw up which you have yet to issue an apology for.
The decision was reversed, but only after the KH CSG had turned around and headed back to Japan...after it was too late for the sailors to spend their Holiday in Hong Kong as planned with many of their family members who had flown ahead to be there with them. So the sailors spent the holiday at sea and I am sure that they will tell you that the reversal meant exactly what it was worth...absolutely nothing.
Normally a silly game that the Chicoms play all the time, this time there were probably a thousand or more girls in HK waiting for the sailors, and the sailors itching to see them. Talk about a way to p*ss off a sailor - probably no other way to p*ss’em off more. Smart move, Chicomms.
Why waste our time with articles that don't give any information? A better question is why would you attack another FReeper that went to the trouble to give us the straight scoop, telling us more than the entire Western media has done?
What we really need to do is vote out all the corrupt politicians, who’ve got investments in China and often put China before America to protect their own investments. That means Congress, the White House, the State department and the USTR’s office.
Thanks for the ping/translation. I knew there had to be something behind this and the decision to reverse their refusal was less than sincere because they knew there was no way the battle group would turn around and return to port.
“What we really need to do is vote out all the corrupt politicians, who’ve got investments in China and often put China before America to protect their own investments.”
BIG DITTO.
Interesting. Thanks.
Is this true?! My son sent an e-mail on the 21st saying that they were not going to Hong Kong after all. He was kind of disappointed. His ship has been there before and really liked it there. He's not on the Kitty Hawk. He's on one of the accompanying destroyers. Anyway, we haven't heard from him since then! Maybe you're right! Do you have a link about it?
Never mind Jackson. I should have continued reading! :-)
the Chinese foreign minister met with President Bush on Wednesday and blamed the incident on “a misunderstanding.”
Thank you Dr. Marten for the ping.
Thanks for the PING. I saw this earlier to today and am reminded that the cold war isn’t over, and now we are not only in a cold war with Russia, but China as well.
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