Posted on 05/30/2020 12:31:32 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
he Chinese military has said it chased off a U.S. warship near a disputed set of islands in the South China Sea, but the Navy contended the vessel was acting within international law.
Senior Colonel Li Huamin, the spokesman for the Chinese People's Liberation Army's Southern Theater Command, said in a statement Thursday by official military outlets that the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Mustin "illegally intruded" into territorial waters near the Paracel Islands, known to China as the Xisha Islands, earlier that day. As a result, Li said Chinese sea and air units were dispatched to "warn off" and "expel" the vessel.
"The provocative actions by the United States have seriously undermined China's sovereignty and security interests, seriously violated international laws and regulations and severely damaged the peace and stability of the region," he said. "It is a brazen act of navigational hegemony."
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We and our allies need to keep a major naval presence.
I have to wonder what their ROEs are. Back in 2001, Wrong Way smacked into the the EP-3, forcing it to land. What would a Navy ship on the wrong end of an AShM launch be permitted to do other than activate its anti-missile systems, and put some distance between itself and the source of the ordnance?
Wuhan, Himalayan border with India, Hong Kong, threats to Taiwan, the South China Sea.
China is probing/behaving like it is trying to force military action by the U.S.
Let’s hope our Navy CinPac is not commanded by the Minneapolis mayor and chief of police
well they got us running around sneezing and dodging bricks
Heheh. That’s right.
China can take what they want, whenever they want, and the US won’t stop them. This is all about lining up their ducks before making the push.
Xi is acting like a man who sees a rapidly closing window of opportunity.
Dangerous times we live in.
I went to the source link, and the pop up ad was a video celebrating the anniversary of the PLA??!!!!!
Send in a carrier task force.
Appeasement and disarmament is the only way forward. It works wonders. Just ask Édouard Daladier, the leader of the third French republic at München in 1938.
Ain’t that the truth!
We should jack the tariffs every time they give us trouble.
No one else except the USA has the ability, or especially the interest or courage, to challenge China in the South China Sea. China has declared it their own lake, and the world has meekly accepted it.
Expelled. LOL Yeah sure Mr. Moto.
The can kill the thing shooting at them. ROE does not mean all they can do is shoot at the missile.
It is usually one ship,
Kind of hard to control that much water, from 6250 mi away
>>...the world has meekly accepted it.<<
Except Japan, Vietnam, South Korea, Philippines, Malaysia and Taiwan.
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