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U.S. Expelled Two Chinese Diplomats after Unauthorized Entry into SEAL Team 6 Headquarters
National Review ^ | December 17, 2019 | ZACHARY EVANS

Posted on 12/17/2019 8:46:26 PM PST by lasereye

The U.S. secretly expelled two Chinese diplomats in September after entering a Virginia military base that houses the headquarters of SEAL Team 6, the New York Times reported Tuesday.

The diplomats, along with their wives, were detained after the four drove through the outer perimeter of the Dam Neck Annex of Naval Air Station Oceana, south of Virginia Beach. They ignored orders from guards to turn back and were only stopped by fire trucks that were driven to block their path, according to the Times. One of the men is allegedly an intelligence operative with diplomatic cover.

The U.S. has refused to comment on the incident or even confirm or deny that it took place. China, however, acknowledged on Monday that the two diplomats were expelled.

“The US accusation on our officials is completely inconsistent with the truth,” said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang, who was formerly stationed at the country’s embassy in Washington. “We urge the U.S. to correct its mistake, withdraw this decision and protect Chinese diplomats’ legitimate rights and interests according to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.”

Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Uriah Orland told the Times he had no further information about the incident. “We take the security of all our installations very seriously,” Orland said.

The news comes at a time of escalated tensions between the U.S. and China. The two countries are currently locked in a trade war, and President Trump is currently pushing for a trade agreement that will see both sides reduce tariffs on imports.

There have been several other recent U.S.-China espionage incidents, including the sentencing of a former CIA officer who was convicted of spying for China.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
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Not sure what they were hoping to accomplish.
1 posted on 12/17/2019 8:46:26 PM PST by lasereye
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To: lasereye

Why are we using fire trucks as military base security instead of machine guns?


2 posted on 12/17/2019 8:50:23 PM PST by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: lasereye

We’ll likely never know what was in their vehicle.


3 posted on 12/17/2019 8:50:46 PM PST by GreyHoundSailor
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To: lasereye

They should have been shot early and often, life is not a board game.


4 posted on 12/17/2019 8:56:11 PM PST by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: lasereye

Didn’t you ever drive by the rival high school before a game. You would see their crappy school, their ugly women, and their weak assed football team.

Funny, what they saw was a nice building, beautiful cheerleaders and a bunch of rock solid all American Adonis’s.


5 posted on 12/17/2019 8:57:50 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: lasereye

Doesn’t matter. They all should be dead.


6 posted on 12/17/2019 8:58:33 PM PST by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)
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To: lasereye

Should have just kept them, and told China they defected.


7 posted on 12/17/2019 9:00:25 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Veggie Todd

“Why are we using fire trucks as military base security instead of machine guns?”

That a fire truck was employed does not imply that other means of control were not available.


8 posted on 12/17/2019 9:06:49 PM PST by coaster123 (Distrust everyone under sixty.)
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To: PGR88

Yeah, that would adjust their lifespan to about fifteen minutes. *snicker*


9 posted on 12/17/2019 9:07:21 PM PST by Viking2002 (..........and Epstein didn't kill himself. Yeah, I went there.)
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To: lasereye

What might SEAL Team 6 be involved with that they thought they might learn something by driving onto the base?


10 posted on 12/17/2019 9:08:55 PM PST by jdege
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To: lasereye

Perhaps, rather than the inglorious expellation, might the chinese diplomats have been treated as our guests at Fort Leavenworth for a few years?


11 posted on 12/17/2019 9:14:33 PM PST by Seaplaner
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protect Chinese diplomats’ legitimate rights and interests according to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.”

First question....why were they on the base?

Second question....how did they make it past the entry gate?


12 posted on 12/17/2019 9:17:09 PM PST by qaz123
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Firetrucks to block their path?

And here I thought we were supposed to use bullets, of course that was around 40 years ago.


13 posted on 12/17/2019 9:22:44 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: lasereye

Sounds to me like they were just probing to see how far they’d get before anything was done.

Unfortunately, the Left has made everyone so jumpy and afraid of being accused of any discrimination/profiling that the DOD cops/SPs are afraid to do their jobs.


14 posted on 12/17/2019 9:34:48 PM PST by qaz123
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To: lasereye

Expelled SHOULD MEAN shot and killed as spys


15 posted on 12/17/2019 9:58:09 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true..)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
One of the men is allegedly an intelligence operative with diplomatic cover... “The US accusation on our officials is completely inconsistent with the truth,” said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang, who was formerly stationed at the country’s embassy in Washington. “We urge the U.S. to correct its mistake, withdraw this decision and protect Chinese diplomats’ legitimate rights and interests according to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.”

16 posted on 12/17/2019 11:02:42 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Veggie Todd
THey could have used the Stripes RV.


17 posted on 12/18/2019 12:57:09 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: lasereye

Unauthorized entry into Dam Neck should have been met with 50 Cal fire until they were sauce.


18 posted on 12/18/2019 4:48:52 AM PST by King_Corey (Buy American - https://madeinamericastore.com/)
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To: jdege

I think they could have seen same from satellite images.


19 posted on 12/18/2019 5:46:05 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (Please, oh pretty please let Crazy Uncle Joe Biden be the nominee.)
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"Second question....how did they make it past the entry gate?"

On a US Air Force base with tactical or strategic resources, they wouldn't have gotten past the pop-up security barriers. If they somehow had, AF Security Forces are ready and fully authorized to use deadly force. Past incidents of this type have not ended well for gate crashers.


20 posted on 12/18/2019 6:21:39 AM PST by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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