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To: headstamp 2
This is clear provocation.

The question is who provoked who FIRST ?

From article: "Analysts saw the passage as significant as Beijing has long objected to U.S. Navy vessels transiting its territorial waters or operating in international waters just outside."

11 posted on 09/04/2015 10:58:57 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2
The question is who provoked who FIRST ? From article: "Analysts saw the passage as significant as Beijing has long objected to U.S. Navy vessels transiting its territorial waters or operating in international waters just outside."

Neither incident is a provocation. The right of free transit through international waterways is long-established, and Uncle Sam has spent considerable diplomatic capital keeping it up.

14 posted on 09/04/2015 11:08:20 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: UCANSEE2

The Chinese definition of it’s territorial waters are completely at odds with maritime accepted lines..


15 posted on 09/04/2015 11:10:53 AM PDT by Cold Heat (For Rent....call 1-555-tagline)
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To: UCANSEE2

Yes, and which country is it of the two that’s flexing it’s military might and threatening its neighbors on a regular basis?


26 posted on 09/04/2015 1:47:25 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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