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.
Then how come they built so many themselves (often faulty) for their own electric power generation?
Something big is afoot here.
A little history. The Japanese took British Hong Kong at the beginning of hostilities WW2. The US Navy liberated the Pacific including Hong Kong from the Japanese.
Ever since then, the US Navy has been warmly received in Hong Kong...even AFTER the British turned it over to the Chicoms. But now this.
This may be the first evidence of a sea change (no pun intended) in Chicom-Hong Kong, and Chicom-US relations.
There is a reason it is forward deployed across from the Dragon.
will make the “aim” and “determination” a bit more focused when the time comes to deal with the sorry chinse lot...boycott hong kong and all china products forever...all the bucks that we have sent them over the last few years contributes greatly to the weak dollar world wide!
Awesome. Let’s borrow even more money from the Chinese communists. /s
Boycott the Olympics
Give the Brits some credit. They and other commonwealth forces liberated Hong Kong peacefully on August 15, 1945.
By the time they steamed elsewhere Thanksgiving would have past. The Captain will make do with what they have. Meaning likely a cookout on the flightdeck and modified holiday routine for the crew. Likely watches only stood in most departments. Snipes and cooks would have to be compensated for it over a 2 day period.
Your comment saddens me deeply.
The Connie and the Kitty Hawk were indeed the heavy lifters within the Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club.
I have very fond memories of my time as a young Commander, landing aboard the Hawk in 1966-67, when delivering Alfa Strike targets to CCD-5 (CTF-77) from TSN (as the C7F/7AF joint strike coordinator, for Vadm. Hyland.
I can state without caveat that Kitty Hawk was the finest carrier I ever was associated with —bar none. And my log book contains landings aboard well over a dozen carriers, in the course of my career.
Kitty Hawk was in a class alone — heads and shoulders above its contemporaries.
Let the old lady fly the Ensign from her truk as long as she can make steam. She serves our Republic with valor and intrepidity. Thank you.
“The Japanese have a thing about Nuclear Reactors —
they don’t want them,...”
The Japanese have PLENTY of nuclear reactors on their soil.
Not to be too cruel, but maybe the Japanese are afraid that our young sailors
tending our ship reactors might start acting like some of the Japanese
Nuclear Workers!
(see excerpt posted from linked article below)
No flames please...I’m pro-Nuclear Power and have worked with
radioisotopes (medical/biologics) for most of my working life.
I got to attend a lecture by a USA nuclear consultant that helped
the Japanese investigate their accident in which three workers
spilled a load of NASTY NUCLEAR solution. They sounded like they were
as competent and co-ordinated in their manipulation of the solutions
as Laurel and Hardy.
And two of the three workers paid for it with their lives.
And scared the cr-p out of people for miles around.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Japan
excerpt:
“
However, starting in the mid-1990s there were several nuclear related
accidents and cover-ups in Japan that eroded public perception
of the industry, resulting in protests and resistance to new plants.
These accidents included the Tokaimura nuclear accident, the Mihama
steam explosion, cover-ups after an accidents at the Monju reactor,
among others,...
“
Ain’t nobody in this gubment got the balls to do that except DUNCAN HUNTER.The stupid sheeple in this country dont get it i am sorry to say.
Your post adds alot of intrigue to this story.
Story like this should be in Breaking News.
Just buy them a few sinkers...
i always liked the idea of the Trade Reform Act a la Tom Clancy’s Debt of Honor...
For some reason, they are against warships with nuclear reactors...
The ChiComs OWN the demoCrats, they bought and paid for them.
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