[skeeter]

Not gonna subscribe to the WSJ, but from what I can read maybe we’ll have to give a cookie to the Obama Administration on this one.

[GeronL]

Sounds like it, should have been at least one Japanese aircraft in the flight though

[manc]

yea right, anything to take away his awful dropping numbers, go to have something for the news to report on and make him look strong

[FAA]

“Not gonna subscribe to the WSJ, but from what I can read maybe we’ll have to give a cookie to the Obama Administration on this one...”

Gotta sort of agree. This was a quick, public response to the ChiComs indicating “yeah, not so much there buddy.” Kind of a surprise from the Clown College Administration.

[aegiscg47]

For whatever reason, this administration doesn't seem to like the Chinese very much. There's no doubt what they're after in the Middle East, but surprisingly, they seem to unwittingly swerve into doing the right thing in this part of the world. I'm sure it's baffling to our foes and allies in the region.

[esoxmagnum]

Diversionary Tactics. Nothing more. Anything to get in the news and get OFF of the Obamacare fiasco.

[mojito]

You can read the story in the WaPo:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-flies-two-warplanes-over-east-china-sea-ignoring-new-chinese-air-defense-zone/2013/11/26/0510eee2-56bf-11e3-835d-e7173847c7cc_story.html

[Jack Hydrazine]

Just google the title and you’ll be able to read the whole thing without having to pay a subscription fee.

[lentulusgracchus]

Not gonna subscribe to the WSJ, but from what I can read maybe we’ll have to give a cookie to the Obama Administration on this one.

They were pretty prompt at surfacing a couple of Tridents during an earlier confrontation between China and their neighbors ....... in Subic Bay, for instance, and Diego Garcia. The Chinese didn't like that.

The Regime also transited a CBG across the South China Sea the minute the Chinese declared that it was Chinese territory all the way to the Philippines and Borneo, including the sea bottom and the water column.

Barky's willingness to play gunboat diplomacy with the Chinese is a little puzzling, given his other, um, "predilections". For ring-kissing, for example.

[staytrue]

What would be the best thing in the world for Islam ?

It would be for China and the US to nuke each other and voila, Islam rules the world.