Posted on 01/16/2008 12:53:42 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Tense battle-ready standoff in Taiwan Strait
(Hong Kong=Yonhap News) Chung Juho = U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk (and its battle group) had 28-hour battle-ready standoff with a Chinese submarine and a missile destroyer in Taiwan Strait last November, it has been revealed.
This was the first military standoff between U.S. and China since the Taiwan Strait Crisis in 1996.
According to Jan. 16 dispatch by China Times in Taiwan, on Nov. 23 last year, Kitty Hawk battle group was en route to Japan after China refused its port call in Hong Kong, entering Taiwan Strait instead of using its normal route. China immediately dispatched a Song-class submarine which happened to be in the neighborhood, and had it track the battle group.
China also sent a missile destroyer Shenzhen from its Southern Fleet which was readying itself in Hainan Island for the (upcoming) visit to Japan, joining the Kitty Hawk watch.
The battle group with the carrier and its eight escort ships were sailing northward at an even distance away (from China and Taiwan,) and the Chinese submarine and the destroyer were following and watching the battle group from the western side along the Chinese mainland.
Carrier Kitty Hawk was alerted by a P3-C anti-submarine plane from U.S. forces in Japan that a Chinese submarine and its destroyer were following them. The group stopped sailing and went into battle-ready mode, sending out warplanes to protect the fleet.
After tense 28-hour standoff, the battle group was able to return to Yokosuka base in Japan only in Nov. 24.
According to an U.S. military source, the Chinese submarine sneaked into Taiwan Strait from west after taking a detour around Taiwan's southern shore from east, in an effort to monitor Kitty Hawk battle group. S-2T anti-submarine plane from Taiwanese navy was conducting the regular patrol in the area, but was not able to detect the submarine.
Ping!
Cheers!
>>>>. . . . and in Long Beach, CA
That was banned though, right?
(Thank you Duncan Hunter!)
Excerpt:
LONG BEACH NAVAL STATION
JANUARY 1999
COSCO BANNED FROM LONG BEACH
On October 17, 1998, H.R. 3616, the Fiscal Year 1999 Defense Authorization Act was signed by the President and became law.
Among the measures contained in the law is a provision, authored by Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA), denying the President the authority to issue a waiver allowing the China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) to lease a terminal at the former Long Beach Naval Station.
According to a report by the House Task Force on Terrorism, “Although presented as a commercial entity, COSCO is actually an arm of the Chinese military establishment. COSCO provides services to the logistics and and transportation arms of the PLA’s [People’s Liberation Army] Navy and Air Force.”
The Chinese Navy must speak Spanish well enough to open ports in Mexico.
>>>.. let them buy rooskie technology
That is a problem too though. That is how they got their ‘cosmonaut’ trained and space program expanded.
http://blog.barofintegrity.us/2007/10/23/chinas-space-program.aspx
China’s Space Program
Excerpt:
We dont really have a space programme, do we? After all, its not like we are pushing the technological frontiers and designing cutting-edge manned spacecraft.
No, to be more precise, we have an astronaut-training programme. Whoa, whoa, that is not true either. We didnt train anyone; we paid the Russians to train our astronaut.
Oh, blow it all. That is still wrong. He is not an astronaut; he is a cosmonaut. The terms, according to Nasa, mean different things but, according to the Russians (and us), they mean the same thing.
Oh, this is all so confusing. All right, all right, let us start over again.
You might not know this, but there have been a lot of unhappy rumblings in Malaysian society regarding our paying the Russians buckets of money the amount of which the Malaysian public is not 100% sure about to train a bloke to be a spaceman (as accurate a definition I can think of, because he is a man and he is in space).
Yes, it is true. This wonderful achievement of the country to find a handsome, clean-cut, healthy, intelligent fellow and pay someone else to get him into space is being sneered at in some cynical quarters.
If you happen to be one of those people, I say to you: tsk, tsk, tsk. Where is your sense of patriotism? Where is your child-like optimism?
Going into space is a big deal. Just ask Dennis Tito and Mark Shuttleworth, two space tourists who did not have the luxury of buying Russian jet fighters to contra the costs of their cosmic flights. Coincidentally, one of the nasty things people are calling our Malaysian spaceman is space tourist.
For your information, unlike the two gentlemen mentioned above, our spaceman is not a tourist. No, no, no. He is going to do experiments, important experiments.
>>>And in a few years or decades when the Chinese Navy is operating in the Gulf of Mexico, how will we react?
They already do.
http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/chinainstitute/nav03.cfm?nav03=54382&nav02=43813&nav01=43092
China Oilfield secures deal in Gulf of Mexico
>>>I just believe it has been calculated, deliberate, treasonous.
I agree.
Were you asked to comment on my tag line?....I didn’t think so.
Iranian gunboats harassing US navy carriers in the Persian Gulf, Russian planes probing our borders/air defenses, and now this. Something big is in the works.
FYI... The Chinese invited in the Russians to look at the P3 as well.
From what I consider for me to be ill-informed while it was happening, my thoughts at the time were that if there were no women on board at that time, the rest of the crew would have ditched. Please feel free to freelighten me.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
You need a TS clearance to even get in the aircraft.
I don’t know if that was the pilot’s motivation, but it is fair to ask the question.
Resembles Iran’s actions in the Strait of Hormuz.
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