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U.S. aircraft carrier (Kitty Hawk) denied access to Hong Kong (last minute denial by China)
Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 11/21/07 | Reuters

Posted on 11/21/2007 7:23:11 PM PST by NormsRevenge

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China has unexpectedly denied the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier and its accompanying ships entry to Hong Kong port for a long-planned Thanksgiving holiday visit, the U.S. State Department said on Wednesday.

"At present, it appears the USS Kitty Hawk strike group will not be making a port call in Hong Kong as previously planned as a result of a last minute denial by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs," State Department spokeswoman Nicole Thompson said.

China gave no reason was for the denial, Thompson said.

The United States is pressing Chinese authorities for an explanation and to reconsider its decision, she added.

The Financial Times newspaper said the Kitty Hawk group and its crew of 8,000 U.S. airmen and sailors had been expected in Hong Kong on Wednesday, but now would spend the holiday on the South China Sea.

A U.S. Navy spokesman was not immediately available for comment.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: aircraftcarrier; china; duncanhunter; duplicate; hongkong; kittyhawk; navair; portcall; usskittyhawk
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

You bet.


21 posted on 11/21/2007 7:42:42 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Now your thinking.

The Sailors would be welcome there.


22 posted on 11/21/2007 7:42:59 PM PST by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Ooo yeah. Liberty in Taipei. Much better than Hong Kong any day. Kaoshiung, Keelung. You bet.


23 posted on 11/21/2007 7:43:23 PM PST by Seruzawa (Attila the Hun... wasn't he a liberal?)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

France learned that it isn’t good to piss off the American consumer and now it’s the chicom’s turn.


24 posted on 11/21/2007 7:44:40 PM PST by cripplecreek (Only one consistent conservative in this race and his name is Hunter.)
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To: al baby
How about made in America instead...
25 posted on 11/21/2007 7:45:25 PM PST by topher (Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)
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To: cripplecreek

When do we start???

I’m so ready.

Yankee Doodle Dumplings anyone?


26 posted on 11/21/2007 7:45:58 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (I like Duncan Hunter)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Amen! We need a one China policy..Taiwan!


27 posted on 11/21/2007 7:46:25 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: mylife

Yep.

And why the blankety-blank are we bringing 5-10 thousand or more Sailors and Marines to spend their liberty money in China anyway?

Not to mention the tremendous port fees and the money spent on supplies, fuel or whatever.
Nothing like financing the largest communist nation in the world instead of spending our money with a nation that supports us.

To me this is just more government craziness.


28 posted on 11/21/2007 7:47:38 PM PST by Iron Munro ( (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.))
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To: Seruzawa
It burns oil, not nuclear fuel...

The Japanese have a thing about Nuclear Reactors -- they don't want them, and I believe that the USS Kitty Hawk is based in Japan or at least makes port calls to Japanese ports.

Japan made a big stink about giving oil fuel to the USS Kitty Hawk because some of that fuel could have been used in attacks in Afghanistan.

Japan cannot aid those who are at war...

29 posted on 11/21/2007 7:47:54 PM PST by topher (Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)
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To: al baby

All the Christmas stuff got brought into harbor and unloaded last July.


30 posted on 11/21/2007 7:48:36 PM PST by kingu (No, I don't use sarcasm tags - it confuses people.)
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To: NormsRevenge

The democRats F$%^ with the Military, why shouldn’t the ChiComs?


31 posted on 11/21/2007 7:48:54 PM PST by Falcon4.0
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To: NormsRevenge

This is Communist China’s way of communicating their displeasure at our media’s exposure and widespread reporting of dangerous lead content in Chinese-produced toys as well as tainted food and other dangerous things found in products from China. They play hardball and are like the Islamofascists in a key way - they will only respect strength and resolve. They take the weak and crush them. Just check with Burma and Falun Gong. This will be a very interesting situation to watch over the coming months. I am sure Hillary can work this out with her well-intentioned Chinese benefactors.


32 posted on 11/21/2007 7:49:49 PM PST by untwist
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

I see that the Lou Dobbs poll tonight showed that some 98% of responders said they would go out of their way to avoid buying Chinese made products.


33 posted on 11/21/2007 7:50:08 PM PST by cripplecreek (Only one consistent conservative in this race and his name is Hunter.)
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To: Iron Munro

We have used Hong Kong as a port for ages.

I suppose logistically it makes sense as a port.


34 posted on 11/21/2007 7:50:13 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: NormsRevenge
I say we send an emissary from the USS Kitty Hawk anyway...


35 posted on 11/21/2007 7:50:33 PM PST by rlmorel (Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
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To: Iron Munro

Also, it is a projection of power.


36 posted on 11/21/2007 7:50:48 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: NormsRevenge
Well why is it that we allow the Chiniese to port in Oakland, whenever they feel like it, and bring in containers full of AK 47s, and we still do not deny them port access in Oakland?*

*Bill Clinton's 8 Million Dollar AK-47 Deal of 1996

( http://www.ak47world.com/clinton.html)

Duncan Hunter is right about China. Get behind Duncan today!

Go Hunter in 2008!

37 posted on 11/21/2007 7:54:06 PM PST by Candor7 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Baghdad_(1258))
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
Now THAT is a great idea.

Taiwan would be ecstatic over a visit by a USN carrier battle group and it would give the ChiComs apoplexy.

Win-win, I say!

38 posted on 11/21/2007 7:54:12 PM PST by Ronin (Bushed out!!! Another tragic victim of BDS.)
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To: Seruzawa
Maybe are just afraid that a ship as old as the Kitty Hawk is now entirely composed of rust held together with paint and that it might just collapse in a heap in port. :-) I remember riding on a Tin Can escorting the Kitty Hawk off Vietnam 40 years ago. Isn’t it time the poor thing was put to rest?

And replace it with what? Poppy, Cheney, Congress, Clinton, and the Smirking Chimp have let our Navy sink down close to 300 active left.

KH is going out of service soon though. She's the last of her class and was the oldest as well. She got all her yard work done and lasted as designed. Actually if you want to compare service years try this. Kitty Hawk CV 62 Commission Date: 04/29/1961 Enterprise CVN 65 Commission Date: 11/25/1961

39 posted on 11/21/2007 7:56:30 PM PST by cva66snipe (Proud Partisan Constitution Supporting Conservative to which I make no apologies for nor back down)
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To: NormsRevenge

Chuck Fina.


40 posted on 11/21/2007 7:58:33 PM PST by onedoug
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