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China Threatens to Blow up US Aircraft Carriers
Breaking Israel News ^ | July 6, 2020 | Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz

Posted on 07/06/2020 9:29:33 AM PDT by silent majority rising

The US sent two carrier groups to the South China Sea in a show of force intended to intimidate China in its aggressive takeover of a disputed archipelago. China responded by boasting of its “wide selection of anti-aircraft carrier weapons”, claiming that the mega-warships operated “at the pleasure of the PLA [People’s Liberation Army]”. The response by the US Navy was short and to the point: “Not intimidated.”

The decision to send the two nuclear-powered carriers, the USS Nimitz and the USS Ronald Reagan, into the South China Sea for dual-carrier operations and exercises was bound to ruffle the feathers of the Chinese government. This is the first time since 2014 that two carriers have been in the region and China is currently conducting a five-day drill around the Paracel Islands.

The Paracel Islands, essentially an archipelago, is a group of 130 islands approximately equidistant from the coastlines of the People’s Republic of China and Vietnam and also in proximity to the Philippines. The archipelago is surrounded by productive fishing grounds and a seabed with potential, but as yet unexplored, oil and gas reserves. As such, they have long been the focus of a dispute between the three countries.

(Excerpt) Read more at breakingisraelnews.com ...


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To: dfwgator

...Russia would be on our side if it came to blows.
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Russia has its own problems (and a long border) w/China. They will always take their own side & Trump expects that. The trick is to show them our side is also theirs.


41 posted on 07/06/2020 11:00:28 AM PDT by reformedliberal (Make yourself less available.)
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To: silent majority rising; All

It would be a REAL SHAME if that “Three Gorges Dam” thingee “sprung” a leak......

...just sayin’.....


42 posted on 07/06/2020 11:07:49 AM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: silent majority rising

XI is waiting for Election Day, as eagerly as the Dems.

If Biden wins, Xi won’t have to do anything. Biden will sell the carriers to the Chinese like he’s already sold his soul.

If Trump wins re-election, Xi might make a move during the chaos that will ensue. I think it’ll be another release of an even more deadly virus.


43 posted on 07/06/2020 11:13:49 AM PDT by Quentin Quarantino
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To: silent majority rising

Three Gorges Dam and people downstream are in great danger.


44 posted on 07/06/2020 11:55:37 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Joe Boucher

The war started the moment China launched its Covid-19 missile.


45 posted on 07/06/2020 11:58:52 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: silent majority rising

Are they calling a racist yet?


46 posted on 07/06/2020 11:59:01 AM PDT by Leep (We can go to the grocery store but we can't go to work?)
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To: silent majority rising

Maybe they do...but not much will be left of their cities.

...providing, of course, our nukes still work after 30+ years of not being tested.


47 posted on 07/06/2020 11:59:14 AM PDT by BobL
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To: 1Old Pro

Just imagine if we had Omamba and Biden in charge in these days.


48 posted on 07/06/2020 12:03:11 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: 353FMG
Just imagine if we had Omamba and Biden in charge in these days.

Well after 8 years of them and 8 years of W. and 8 years of Clinton, that's 24 years of helping China be in the position that they can threaten us.

49 posted on 07/06/2020 12:05:41 PM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: desertfreedom765

Whaaaaaaaat? NO more kung pao dog?


50 posted on 07/06/2020 12:05:56 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: tet68

Yes


51 posted on 07/06/2020 12:06:08 PM PDT by dp0622 (TRUMP!)
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To: reformedliberal

Launch a missile that fails to make it (to wherever), sending it careening towards the 3-gorges dam. Warn them than we cannot stop it, what a terrible tragedy, so sorry, blah, blah, blah. Tell them Loral is responsible. Think it will work?


52 posted on 07/06/2020 12:07:21 PM PDT by egfowler3 (Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump)
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To: dfwgator

Don’t depend on it. Russia and China have on thing in common — they are both commies. Don’t ever,ever trust commies.


53 posted on 07/06/2020 12:09:38 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: 353FMG

Russia isn’t commie anymore, they are back to just being Imperialist, as they were under the Czar.


54 posted on 07/06/2020 12:10:23 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Joe Boucher

Sink an AC and Beijing will cease to exist.


55 posted on 07/06/2020 12:11:38 PM PDT by DownInFlames (Galsd)
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To: musicman

There was an article here a few weeks ago about how the Three Gorges Dam was already showing signs of probable failure. I think there is a section that is already bowed out.


56 posted on 07/06/2020 12:14:48 PM PDT by octex
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

57 posted on 07/06/2020 12:15:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: 353FMG

anyone who fails to understand that they released this to the world on purpose.
Send flights from Wuhan to the rest of the world while restricting anything from Wuhan to go to any other part of China?
The world needs to know this was WAR.


58 posted on 07/06/2020 12:23:36 PM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Molon Labe' Baby, Molon Labe)
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To: DownInFlames

The Donald is no one to be messed with, and much of the rest of the world is fed up with the Chi-coms bull crap.


59 posted on 07/06/2020 12:25:07 PM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Molon Labe' Baby, Molon Labe)
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To: silent majority rising

Nice dam you’ve got there at Three Gorges. It would be a shame if something happened to it.


60 posted on 07/06/2020 12:45:28 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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