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Three US Navy aircraft carriers are patrolling the Pacific Ocean at the same time. And China's not happy
CNN ^
| June 15, 2020
| Brad Lendon
Posted on 06/15/2020 1:37:05 PM PDT by Tai_Chung
The deployment of three 100,000-ton US Navy aircraft carriers to the Pacific Ocean for the first time in years has drawn swift reaction from China, with state-sponsored media saying Beijing will not back down to defend its interests in the region. The USS Ronald Reagan and the USS Theodore Roosevelt are both patrolling in the western Pacific, while the USS Nimitz is in the east, according to US Navy press releases. With each vessel containing more than 60 aircraft, it represents the biggest deployment of US aircraft carriers in the Pacific since 2017 -- when tensions with North Korea over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program were at their peak. The presence of the carriers was first highlighted in an Associated Press report on Friday. "Carriers and carrier strike groups writ large are phenomenal symbols of American naval power. I really am pretty fired up that we've got three of them at the moment," Rear Adm. Stephen Koehler, director of operations at Indo-Pacific Command in Hawaii, told AP. On Sunday, the Communist Party's Global Times mouthpiece said the carriers could threaten troops in the disputed South China Sea. "By massing these aircraft carriers, the US is attempting to demonstrate to the whole region and even the world that it remains the most powerful naval force, as they could enter the South China Sea and threaten Chinese troops on the Xisha and Nansha islands (Paracel and Spratly islands) as well as vessels passing through nearby waters, so the US could carry out its hegemonic politics," the Global Times report
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; taiwan; ussnimitz; ussronaldreagan; usstheodoreroosevelt
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The Reagan returned to sea in late May after crew members were placed under restricted movements at its home port in Japan to ensure it deployed without any Covid-19 cases. It has also been loaded with more than 1,000 tons of ordnance -- "enough combat power to cause the ship to sit five inches lower on the waterline," a US Navy statement said.
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posted on
06/15/2020 1:37:05 PM PDT
by
Tai_Chung
To: Tai_Chung
they are just upset that the Reagan is back at sea.
their aircraft carrier, the mousy tongue, is barely able to leave the sea of japan... er, china sea.
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posted on
06/15/2020 1:40:07 PM PDT
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world)
To: Tai_Chung
To: Tai_Chung
China’s “interest in the region” is the assumption of a Chinese sphere of interest in all of Asia, the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific. For now.
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posted on
06/15/2020 1:42:12 PM PDT
by
arthurus
(H \o/)
To: Tai_Chung
"By massing these aircraft carriers, the US is attempting to demonstrate to the whole region and even the world that it remains the most powerful naval force, as they could enter the South China Sea and threaten Chinese troops on the Xisha and Nansha islands (Paracel and Spratly islands) as well as vessels passing through nearby waters, so the US could carry out its hegemonic politics," China received the message loud and clear. Trump isn't the type to use "diplomatic ambiguity"
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posted on
06/15/2020 1:42:46 PM PDT
by
Tai_Chung
To: teeman8r
their aircraft carrier, the mousy tongue, is barely able to leave the sea of japan... er, china sea. Eh?
I thought it was called the mousy dung?
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posted on
06/15/2020 1:47:43 PM PDT
by
null and void
(If this is a representitive democracy, why don't I feel represented?)
To: Tai_Chung
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posted on
06/15/2020 1:49:54 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: Tai_Chung
as a Nimitz reactor designer and a nuke engineering officer on that plant, anyone of those ships could put China back to the stone age. This maybe what the Chinese are concerned about.
But thinking about it, a million degrees of heat is the only sure way to decon a bio-weapons lab.
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posted on
06/15/2020 1:54:03 PM PDT
by
Herakles
(Diversity is applied Marxism!)
To: Tai_Chung
It’s called a show of force and while the kids are playing Lord of the Fleas here Trump is telling the PRCs the ADULTS are still in charge!
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posted on
06/15/2020 1:55:04 PM PDT
by
Harpotoo
(Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
To: Tai_Chung
China needs to stop stealing intellectual property from the rest of the world.
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posted on
06/15/2020 1:55:46 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(When blacks kill each other it's called 'gun violence'. When cops kill a black, it's called 'murder')
To: Tai_Chung
“Massing”? Battles of Coral Sea and Midway saw “massed” carriers, within sight of each other, both sides, with hundreds of nautical miles between the two fleets. Three carriers in different sectors of the Pacific Ocean aren’t “massed”. CNN is truly the fifth column, among several, that sooner or later will need to be dealt with.
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posted on
06/15/2020 1:56:52 PM PDT
by
katana
To: teeman8r
One doesn't have to deal with their carrier to stop it....just sink the oiler!!!!
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posted on
06/15/2020 1:59:46 PM PDT
by
ontap
To: Tai_Chung
I wonder if their unhappiness is being reflected in the massive T-Mobile/Sprint, AT&T and Verizon cell phone outage right now...
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posted on
06/15/2020 1:59:55 PM PDT
by
kingu
(Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
To: Tai_Chung
Hopefully they’re sailing through the disputed waters daily...as well as overflying those areas daily.
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posted on
06/15/2020 2:11:23 PM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(The Rats Just Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election!)
To: kingu
Is Verizon out? Gotta check now.
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posted on
06/15/2020 2:12:21 PM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(The Rats Just Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election!)
To: katana
THIS IS CNN-DNCWE LOVE TO LIE, AND IT SHOWS!
WE BIG BULLIES AND PROUD OF IT.
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posted on
06/15/2020 2:16:07 PM PDT
by
timestax
To: timestax
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posted on
06/15/2020 2:17:56 PM PDT
by
timestax
To: Tai_Chung
China’s oil lifeline runs through the Indian Ocean. How many carriers do we have there?
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posted on
06/15/2020 2:20:26 PM PDT
by
Spirochete
(GOP: Gutless Old Party)
To: Tai_Chung
unhappy they couldn’t coronavirus infect all three of them
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posted on
06/15/2020 2:25:17 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Tai_Chung
The Bandits of Beijing can kiss my ass!!!
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posted on
06/15/2020 2:27:02 PM PDT
by
MeganC
(There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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